As of today, has started the month of the King Sport: Football, or as Americans would say, Soccer. Starting today it’s the beginning of the time when beer, crackers, peanuts and long pauses becomes something normal. It’s the start of the time when words like "hit the damn ball right" or "how in the hell could you miss that ball" are said each 5-10 minutes when the national team play.
And because we’re a people of coaches and politicians, the creative part of our brain will start functioning from 7 June. We would be able to comment the most crazy, bizarre, stupid and did I say crazy? football moment for more than 3 hours without getting to a general agreement.
And because at the final stage of the Switzerland – Austria 2008 European Championship we have what most would say a "group of death" with the current World Champions, Italy, the former Word and European Champions – France and another Former European Champions Team – Holland, it’s the time when "Romania should get famous again" (it sounds better in Romanian language – e timpul sa redevenim celebri). We have a group from which we start with the last chance but we hope, secretly, to finish it with 6 points after 3 matches. We have the hardest European Championship group since I don’t remember when , with teams for which Zidane, Ruud Gullitt, Marco van Basten, Roberto Baggio, Del Pierro or Tigana have made touchable history and their name is spoken with respect and veneration by the football players today. Hell, their name is spoken with the same veneration and respect by the Romanian football players also, with the hope that after 6 games, their names will shine on the same window as the legends.
But, one over other, we have a group in which ANYTHING can happen. ANYTHING!
As a American football coach would say, let’s get out and play ball ! And don’t forget, we want to get in the streets again, while we shout from the bottom of our lungs one thing: Romania, ole, ole, ole! I think this is a normal exercise that should be repeated for each generation for at least each 15 years. We have Hagi, Popescu and Romania 94 in USA, we NEED to have Mutu, Chivu, Lobont in 2008! Welcome to the EU Championship, and break a leg!
Sport / Football
European Championship 2008, Football, France, Group of Death, Holland, Romania
I’ve waited 14 years for a match like this. Hell, all of us waited fourteen years for a game like this; I think all of us remember the magic game against Argentina on the USA 94 World Cup; we all remember the spider-goal of Hagi, the magical run of Ilie Dumitrescu and we still haven’t forgot the joy and happiness we felt then. We want to feel it again, we want to raise the voice and shout as loud as we can: ROOOOMAAAANIIIIIAAAAAA OLE, OLE, OLE.
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