A Girl With A Football Obsession =)

Rawr 1: Russia did not qualify. I was actually upset when I found this out, because ever since Euro 2008 I've been in love with their national team.

Rawr 2: Ukraine did not qualify. I have to support my Slavic peoples, and my best friend is Ukrainian so she would be pretty upset.

Rawr 3: Henry's hand! I really wanted Ireland to beat France, and they were doing so well but then Henry's stupid hand got in the way!!! He better get some HUGE punishment from FIFA or I will hunt him down.

Rawr 4: Bulgaria winning versus Malta. What's the point?! I mean you lost to Cyprus, why piss me off now?

Rawr 5: Ballack is injured! I love Ballack, so he better get his ass together and get well SOON.

To start with Manchester. First, they lose to a horrible playing Liverpool, then they pull of only a 2-0 win over some random team, and then they lose to Chelsea when they should have won. I rarely say this, because I am extremely critical of United and I hate having to defend them when they lose. But they should have won the Chelsea game. They played extremely well. Defense was there, midfield was there, everything was there. It was as though Ronaldo never left, and Vidic and Rio are not injured. But we let the game get away from us, and there is nothing we can do about it, as we sit at third place right now. The Champions League match on Wednesday was also horrific, although it was a good game to watch. We qualified, so I guess I shouldn't complain much...

Liverpool is next, and oh, boy are they in trouble... They've won only one in their last seven games, and they lost to Fulham, and they drew with Lyon. It's going pretty bad for them. I guess I'm lucky that I'm not a Liverpool fan, I just think they are cool :)

Valencia. They've been doing pretty well in La Liga, but pretty dreadful in the UEFA League. They better pick it up, or they won't qualify.

The Bulgarian teams. I think they have the fewest number of points in any of the groups so far, so it's pretty sad. And I was hoping that they could pull off a miracle or something this year, but then again I hope every year.

I'm working on a project for school and I have to log in to this thing and the password is miamidade, and I typed Manchester instead, this is how bad my obsession is...

I was happy with Bulgaria's match too, although it really didn't matter, we won 6-2 over Georgia. I know that it's Georgia, but after losing to Cyprus I'm happy with this. And Berba-daddy scored a hat-trick which made me happy. None of the games were really interesting. France, Russia and Portugal made it to play-offs, and those would be interesting to see. 

I won't be able to watch the United match on Saturday and I'm upset, they shouldn't have all these matches right after an international week! Valencia vs Barcelona will be amazing! I'm definitely watching. So I'm definitely just procrastinating right now... 

I was pretty happy with Spain, although you could see that they were really bored and they didn't really feel like playing. Torres just kind of hung around the back and contained himself from scoring so that someone else could. I was really happy with Mata's performance, and his good looks. There was no Casillas though, which made me sad. The best moment of the match has to be when Armenia score the equalizer, there was such joy on the players' faces and the crowd was ecstatic. They all knew that they have no chance to qualify for the world cup, but they were just so happy to score a goal against probably the best team in the world right now. 

America also qualified which is awesome, I mean I don't really care. Even though I live here and I like America I don't support them when it comes to football, because this nation is a disgrace to football. Also, Argentina did not lose! Isn't that amazing? I've only watched two world cups, and I don't think that Argentina has ever not qualified for a world cup. It would have been awful if Messi didn't get to play, but I would have liked to see Maradona get mobbed by all the Argentinians. There is something about that man that just bothers me. 

Portugal were also lucky enough to grab the second spot in their group after winning 3-0 against Hungary, without Ronaldo scoring. It's one of those rare games in which he doesn't score. Maybe he asleep on the pitch? France are also going to play offs after completely demolishing the Faroe Islands 5-0. France and Italy have to be ashamed of themselves. They have been performing so poorly in the group stages that I would never have guessed that those were the teams that made it to the final in 2006. Ukraine also beat England 1-0, but I really don't think that the English cared much about the game. They already qualified for the Cup, why bother? The game that I was actually looking forward to, Russia vs Germany, wasn't actually as interesting as I expected. The group with Russia and Germany was the only really interesting, tight group. Germany had not lost a game and Russia had lost only one game, which was against Germany. Germany won today, and I can't decide if I'm happy that they won, or if I'm sad that Russia lost. I love both sides, and I really, really hope that Russia qualify in the play-offs because they are a great team. 

I was in the car with my parents and they were telling about the World Cup. Since you, imaginary reader, have probably never heard of the Bulgarian story I will tell you. So sit back and relax.

Few people believed that we had a chance to qualify. If we wanted to make it France had to lose to Israel and then we had to win our last match against France in Paris. All this seemed unlikely, until France lost to Israel. So our boys get on a bus and go to Paris. They play there and the score at 89th minute is 1-1, a score which gets France the ticket to the World Cup in America, and a score that sends Bulgaria back to, well, Bulgaria (duh). But lets no get ahead of ourselves. Emil Kostadinov, who scored the only goal for Bulgaria in the game decided it was time to do something in the 90the minute and scored. The goal made the commentators' remark "God is Bulgarian" famous throughout the country. All 50,000 people in the stadium at Paris were stunned as white-out covered France's name on their plane ticket to America and replaced it with Bulgaria. 

The Bulgarian boys got to America and found themselves in a group with Nigeria and Argentina. Nigeria seemed an easy task, until they beat us 3-0. Then they were stopped by the great Argentina, who had to play the Bulgarian next. Bulgaria won the match and got past the group stages. Then some unimportant matches were played and then we got to the quarter finals. There we had a tough task ahead of us- Germany. We beat them 2-1 and proceeded to the semis. 

The Americans were starting to worry now. They didn't want Bulgaria to make it to the finals because no one wanted to see a team that no one's heard of play at the finals, which meant they won't be able to fill their stadiums. So as we faced out next task, Italy they decided to be all meanie and screw with us. They gave us a French referee. The French, of course hated us because we are the reason they weren't at the World Cup. There are many Bulgarians that blame the referee for our loss of the match 2-1, but I don't. Being Bulgarian I know that there is one thing that we can't do- which is win at big tournaments. 

Eventually, Brazil went on to win their 1437643627 title over penalty shout-outs with Italy. I don't regret that we didn't win. Of course it would have been nice to win, but I do regret that I was too little to remember this. It was probably the most amazing feeling ever, and I could just imagine how proud I would have been to be a Bulgarian.