world cup poetry #12..

July 11, 2010

Spain vs Netherlands. This was a rough game, with multiple yellow cards for each team, and a red card for Netherlands. In the 116th minute in this game that went into extra time, Iniesta from Spain scored the winning goal. It was Spain's first World Cup title and the third time that Netherlands fell in the finals. Netherlands had their opportunities to score, but could not put the ball in the net.

Spain 1 Netherlands 0

Antonio Machado, Spanish poet, translated here:

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Dutch literature link and Dutch poet, Hans Lodeizen below:

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July 10, 2010

Germany vs. Uruguay. Germany won the game for the bronze in the 2010 World Cup. With a 3-2 victory, Germany finished in third place with a young team. Uruguay finished fourth and played an outstanding game today despite the loss. Luis Suarez, the Uruguayan player who was red-carded for using his hands to stop a goal against Ghana was booed whenever he touched the ball. 20 year old Thomas Mueller scored a goal, giving him 5 goals in this World Cup. His future appears bright. 32 year old Miroslav Klose did not get into the game and has 14 goals in his World Cup career leaving him one goal shy of the World Cup record of 15, held by Brazilian soccer star, Ronaldo. Diego Forlan scored 5 goals for Uruguay in this World Cup and was arguably one of top players in this competition. Forlan hit the goal post with the last shot of the game from outside the area on a free kick. A few inches lower and the game would have gone into extra time.

Nonsense poetry by German poet, Christian Morgenstern, here:

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A link to Uruguayan poetry here:

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World Cup Extra and Paul the Octopus, who picked Germany to win today.

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thanks for reading,

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal