Brazil survived Game 1 and received a very UN-deserved 3 points in the opening match against Croatia.
Brazilians are futbol fanatics, and I can't wait to see the headlines for this match. The fact is that Brazil looked VERY beatable, and they were VERY lucky to come out of this game with 3 points.
Brazil "won" the game 3-1, but that scoreline does not tell the whole story. Croatia deserved a draw, and Brazil won the game thanks to a dodgy penalty call and some poor goalkeeping from Croatian keeper Pletikosa.
A sublime dive by Fred... I love that... "proper Brazilian name"... led to the second goal which Pletikosa should have stopped... actually DID stop.... but somehow went through his hands to put Brazil on top.
I hope and pray that if there is any justice in the world - and clearly there isn't - that Croatia go through, because they deserved a draw out of this game.
And this Brazilian team is NOT going to win the World Cup if they continue to play like this.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Good Evening.
It is April 22nd - Earth Day - and this is my first push of the snowball that will be gathering up speed as we lurch inexorably towards Brazil 2014.
Allow me to introduce myself.... my name is Davide Calcio Potato. Way back in 1994, I did a brick-and-mortar (actually paper-and-ink) fanzine here in the USA called "Walter Zenga's Right Buttock." It was a huge hit. It sold like slightly-warm-cakes at my local anarchist bookshop, and even got a mention in an actual book!
Yeah... I could have parlayed it into an empire, but dropping the ball is a passion of mine, and nothing much became of it.
But I feel the time is ripe to dust off the ol' girl and give it another go. The internet of course makes it much easier.
So in the coming weeks be prepared to be poked on occasion with articles and with the fabulous, deep insight that made the first incarnation such a global sensation, and when June comes, of course, it will all go fuckin' mental!
It's the World Cup, baby. There's nothing like it.
It is April 22nd - Earth Day - and this is my first push of the snowball that will be gathering up speed as we lurch inexorably towards Brazil 2014.
Allow me to introduce myself.... my name is Davide Calcio Potato. Way back in 1994, I did a brick-and-mortar (actually paper-and-ink) fanzine here in the USA called "Walter Zenga's Right Buttock." It was a huge hit. It sold like slightly-warm-cakes at my local anarchist bookshop, and even got a mention in an actual book!
Yeah... I could have parlayed it into an empire, but dropping the ball is a passion of mine, and nothing much became of it.
But I feel the time is ripe to dust off the ol' girl and give it another go. The internet of course makes it much easier.
So in the coming weeks be prepared to be poked on occasion with articles and with the fabulous, deep insight that made the first incarnation such a global sensation, and when June comes, of course, it will all go fuckin' mental!
It's the World Cup, baby. There's nothing like it.
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