Comments on: Confederations Cup highlights: Spain 1-0 Iraq, South Africa 2-0 New Zealand

By: Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:14:13 +0000

Wait until you play the middle eastern teams with their damn drums,…

By: ziyad

ziyad — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:35:58 +0000

ohh sorry ollie. i didnt mean to imply that you were saying bad things about iraq, very proud tho :)

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:04:06 +0000

Man, those horns are annoying. ruining the tournament for me.

By: Louwrens

Louwrens — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:44:12 +0000

Being South African is depressing sometimes. Today’s newspapers called it a “2-0 demolition”. DEMOLITION. 2-0. Called Bernard Parker fantastic, when his first goal was a scuffed shot, deflected off Boyens and half-saved, and for his second the cross was basically driven into his thigh and looped in.
One paper also said we’re “on the verge” of the semi’s. Sorry, we’re not. We’re out of the tournament. We scored two goals against a pretty terrible NZ team then started with the backheels and the flicks and the solo efforts, instead of scoring more goals. We didn’t beat Iraq when we dominated.
Spain will beat us by more than one goal, probably three or four, and Iraq shouldn’t have a problem beating New Zealand, so their goal difference will be higher than SA’s, and they’ll go through second.
One mediocre victory and our team are champions of the world, but when we’re knocked out on Saturday the press will slate them and call for heads.
Can’t we accept that our team is terrible?
And don’t get me started on those fucking vuvuzelas.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:21:54 +0000

Ziyad, I didn’t mean Iraq didn’t play well – they did a great job, I thought. But Spain never looked like losing.

By: ziyad

ziyad — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:01:56 +0000

i find that abit harsh ollie, spain beat england 2-0 quite comfortably and they let spain play their football, but what iraq did was isolate villa and torres so the midfield couldnt do anything no matter how much they passed the ball around. Also marchena shouldve gotten a sending off for rugby tackling alaa when he was through on goal and that was at 0-0 and i must say if iraq went 1-0 up it would have been over. I am proud of iraq for how they played, nashat akram played better in the center of midfield than any of the spanish players did, and he doesnt have any other amazing midfield partners or the most amazing strikers in the world. Great showing from the iraqis new zealand here we come!!