I'm really exiced for the 20th edition of the FIFA World Cup. The most exciting part is that it's going to be hosted by Brazil, in Brazil wich is my favourite national soccer team. Brazil is the country that has more world cup trophies than any other country in the most, yet there is also Italy that is behind them with 4 trophy. I like Italy, but when it comes to compare them with Brazil there is no comparaison because Brazil is the best of all . I want Brazil to win this world cup with all my heart and I know it could happen. Brazil has the majority of the best soccer player in the world and the best of all time.
Like I said in my previous blogs, the World Cup is the most watched invent in the world. Although, there has been some really interesting World Cups in previous years and some boring ones such as the World Cup
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Soccer in general is a really interesting sport, really fun to watch and not too easy to understand but more you watch it, the easieur it gets.
After all these blog, I hope you are going to start to watch some soccer games when you have time and I promise you won't be bored out of it.
This passed week, I was so excited for the final of my second favorite soccer event; The UEFA Champions League. None of my team was playing but the excitment that I had was just weird I can say. Chelsea Fc was playing against Bayern Munich in Bayern staduim.
In five years, this is Chelsea's second time to go to the final, in 2007, Chelsea lost against Manchester United. It was really hard for Chelsea's fan, players and mostly their president...
I wasn't supporting any team, but my judgement was that ''may the best win''. In the first half, Bayern was leading the game, I actually went out after the first half meaning that I didn't get to watch the second half.
When I got back, the score was 1-1 and it was the overtime and there was only 5 minutes left for it to be done.
Oh my God, neither of both teams scored so they had to go to the penalty shoot out. Weird much, my heart was beating really hard during the penalty shoot out, for a second I thought Bayern was going to win because but it turned out the opposite. Actually, I was pretty positive about it, even though I don't like that team but I find that the deserve that trophy. Better luck for Barcelona and the other teams in the next Champions League.
El Clasico is a spanish name for one of the biggest soccer game of the year between two largest cities of Spain. Also known as ''El derbi'', it happens twice in a year and it's usually Barcelona against Real Madrid and it can also be Barcelona against Chelsea.
Now those are my favorite games and also one of the most important soccer games of the year. Like I said earlier in my other blogs, I love Barcelona more than any other soccer clubs. Real Madrid and Chelsea are also one the best soccer clubs in the world right now but when it comes with Barcelona they're not that good.
I used to love Real Madrid when I was little at the year of 2002-2003 but when I realize that it's those kind of team that ruins players careers. I quit liking it. It's really fun watching the Clasico games because in my family we all have different favorite teams and it's really interesting how each person love its favorite team.
This year my favorite team Barcelona lost both games. The first was against Real Madrid for the Copa, Barcelona did everything they could to win that game but chance wasn't on our side, and we ended up losing. For me, it's not the lost I'm worrying about but it's the fact that Christiano Ronaldo scored in that game and Messi didn't. This is my biggest worry of this year, things risk to change, meaning that Messi is at risk of not being the best player this year and chances are Christiano might be...
Also, we lost the semi-final against Chelsea. We had all the opportunities to win but once again chances weren't on our side. I felt so bad after this humiliation, we lost two games in less than 2 weeks.
Now my wishes are that Chelsea loses the final, Barcelona get on top in the Liga Championship and that Messi get to be the best goal scorer this year again so he could get the Ballon d'Or.
I am Barcelona's biggest fan. I've been Barcelona's fan since I was 10 years old, I know almost everything there is to know about this europeen soccer team. Contrary, I dont like Chelsea. I like Chelsea but most of the time they just suck. Also at the same time I don't like them because they are one of the biggest rivals of Barcelona after the Real Madrid.
Right now, Barcelona is the best soccer club in the world, the title holder of the Champions League and of Copa de la Liga. All of my favorites soccer player played in Barcelone, Ronaldo, Ronaldhino, Samuel Eto'o, Pélé and now Messi. Chelsea isn't a weak team but for me it's not a great team compared to Barcelona. I know and certified that the rivality between Barcelona and Chelsea started in 2008 when Barcelona eliminated Chelsea in the semi-final of the Champions League in Stamford Bridge.
Tuesday April 24th 2012, was one the day that I got really disappointed in Barcelone. I was the semi-final of the Champions League, we were playing against Chelsea in our own land (Camp Nou Staduim) and we got humiliated. It was a huge humiliation for me and all Barcelona's fan because we lost three games in 2 weeks and what makes it even more ridiculous is we lost against our biggest rivals (Chelsea and Real Madrid).
I was shocked, my day was ruined. My brothers and my mom laughed at me like crazy, I left my house because it was too much humiliation for me. Barcelona's had so many opportunity to win and to also win by many goals. Messi missed to many goals that could of made us win, he missed a freaking etc... . I almost hated him but at the same time he still is my favorite player and everybody has those days.
Chelsea might defeated us tuesday, but the journey isn't done for them they still have the final to win and we still have next season of Champions league to prove that we are still the best team.
Messi, a name that signify "The savior". It's also the name of the most famous soccer player now, he is 24 years old and from Argentina.
The reason why I'm doing a blog about him is because I love him. After the retirement of Ronaldo, Zidane, the departure of Ronaldhino, Samuel Eto'o and all those great players soccer for me became boring. I mean watching a game knowing that there won't be the players that you like to watch was terrifying. Messi is a great player, FC Barcelona had him since he was 10 years old. Barcelona is like his family.
I started being Messi's fan in 2008, it was the semi-final of Champions League FC Barcelona against FC Chelsea. The way he dribbles was amazing, his goals were fantastic.Another reason why I love Messi is because he contribute in the community. When I say contribute, I mean he established the Leo Messi Foundation, a charity supporting access to education and health care for vulnerable children.
Back in the days, Messi also had childhood medical difficulties and that's the main thing why he established that foundation. Also, I love him because he's simple even in his way of playing compare to other players of his age. Because of that Messi was announced as the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF. Now speaking, Messi has 3 ''Ballon d'Or'', 2 Champions League, many Copa America, a lot of Ligua and many more... I can't wait to see him play in the World Cup with the Argentina jersey, who knows there might be a surprise coming from Messi in the next World Cup.
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Ronaldo started his career at the age of 14. Since then he became the soccer legend and I've been his beggest fan since 2002.
I've been through a lot with him, good and worst. According to me, Ronaldo is the best soccer player of all time and I'm not just saying that because I love him. The fact that Ronaldo appears in the soccer tournment in 1994 was a good thing because at that time soccer was much more developped than it was in 1960 or 1970. For me, he had his own way of playing, the way he dribbles, passes the ball and scores was spectacular and not what we've been seeing in soccer years before.
Ronaldo has every ''Palmares, a fancy word in french that signify trophies'', that a soccer player could have except the Champions League. He got fractured after the World Cup 2002 and got transfered in Real Madrid. At that time I didn't hate Real Madrid as much. I really hated it this much because the arrival of Ronaldo in that team was the start of the end of his career.
I think and approve that Real Madrid is the team that drived Ronaldo to his end and also the case of other players like Kaka, Zidane etc.. . According to my analysis, Real Madrid buys all the good players and after playing for them those players lost their good skills.
Ronaldo could of got the Champions League 2002-2003 if he was still in Inter Milan.
Champions League is my favorite event in FIFA after the world cup. It's also one of the event that I'm really comfortable with and I know practically everything there is to know about it. The main goal of it's creation was to improve soccer in Europe with the bestest European soccer clubs. It's played just like other soccer competition with four phase (8th of final, quarter-final, semi-final and Final).
My favorite European soccer club is FC Barcelona like I said earlier in my previous blogs. This Spain soccer club is the best soccer club in the world right now. Barcelona is the tittle holder of the Champions League. Just like Brazil, Barcelona has a biggest rival too and it's Real Madrid. Real is the team that have won more trophies than any other team in the competition. One again I don't like my teams rivals, meaning that I don't like Real Madrid.
We've played a lot of games against each other, most of the games Barcelona won. It's been so long since Barcelona and Real played against each other in the Champions League.
Personally my favorite game of Barcelona against Real Madrid was in 2006, Barcelona won by 3 goals all scored by the Brazilian player Ronaldhino. Every time that these teams compete against each other, its the game of the year the specific name is El Clasico. They have been rivals since 1902 until now, I honestly don't know when that rivality's going to finish. This year Champions League, there's a chance that Barcelona play against Real in the semi-final... I'm hoping that it happens because one again I will have a chance to laugh at my brothers for supporting the Real.
Brazil is located in South America near Bolivia and Paraguay. This country is known for it's coffee, which makes it the largest producer of coffee in the world. Apart from that, it's also known for soccer which happens to be their second wealth. The national soccer team of Brazil is made of a selection of best Brazilian players of football. It's also the best soccer team in the world and have been qualified in all the FIFA World Cup.
Brazil won his first world cup in 1958. Another straight win was in 1962. The third win was in 1970 and it was followed by the one of 1994 in the USA. Lastly the fifth one was in 2002 in Korea/Japan against Germany. After having cycled through all the continent by winning in each continent a World Cup. Since 50 years, Brazil is considered as the strongest footballing nation. By being placed often the first on the world ranking from FIFA and because of it's perfection of soccer.
José Roberto Gama de Oliveira also know as Bebeto, is one of my favorite brazilian soccer player and one of the famous Brazilian player. He invented the cheering after scoring a goal has the honor of his son who had born. The gesture becomes a classic in football.
From Brazil, comes two of my favorite soccer players in the world of the best soccer players in the history of soccer. Pelé the most iconic player of his history and also of the world soccer or also know as the legend of soccer. Whenever experts talk about soccer and it's history Pelé's name comes first in their mind.
Followed by Ronaldo, the world second best soccer player. At the age of 14 he has been selected to play for the national team for the world cup of 1994 and became the youngest player to win a world cup. According to me, there won't be a player like Ronaldo, he was just great, seeing him play, his strategies of stealing the ball from the other team and scoring was unbelievable.
Brazil is the first country to carry back home the World Cup trophy and that happened in 1994. To carry back home the trophy, the team must have won four World Cup.
If your a big fan of soccer and even more of Brazil like me then you should know that their biggest rival is France. Since 1977, France and Brazil have been competing with each other. Truth speaking among all the games that those teams played against each other France have won (4), Brazil (2) and (2) ties. Despite this, Brazil have more World Cup trophies than France which makes them better than France. Since Brazil and France they're rivals, I happen to not like the national soccer team of France because they think they're better than Brazil but it's not true.
I wish I could go to the World Cup of 2014 because for the first time,Brazil will host the largest event in the world. World Cup 2014 is going to be host in Brazil. According to the president of the Brazilian national federation of football ''We've been waiting for this announcement for so long''. I also been waiting for Brazil to host the World Cup and there is no way we are letting any other team win that World Cup.
I'm hoping to see more of Brazil in that World Cup and I hope I won't be disappointed this time.
The World Cup was created in 1928. It's one of the greatest event in the world, the biggest event in FIFA and the most watched event in the world. The world cup has been played since 1930, was stopped during the second war and returned in 1950.
The World Cup of soccer doesn't include every national team in the world. Only teams that are qualified after the playoffs. In Africa, only 4 national teams can go to the World Cup and the rest are teams from Europe, Asia, North, South America and the Caribbean. In total 32 national teams meet up to compete in the World Cup. I honestly find that not fair how only 4 teams from Africa can participate in the World Cup because 4 is really a small number compared to the number of national teams in Africa.
It happens every four years, 32 teams competing against each other and these 32 teams are divided in 8 groups of four name as (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h). Starts with the groups playoffs, teams that get qualified after the groups playoffs goes to 8th of final, then quarter-final, semi-final, 3rd place and then the final.
Some people might not know this, but the World Cup contribute in the development of the world economy and most importantly the economic development of the host country.
Among all the world cups that have been played, those that I find spectacular and that I would never forget are the world cup of 1958-1962-1970(Brazil and the Brazilian superstar Pélé), 19886-1990 (Riteof Maradonaof Argentinaandthe revengeof Germany), 1994-1998-2002 (Coronations of Brazil and France) and 2006-2010(The European domination).
Personally, my favorites world cups are the one in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006, but my most favorite was the one on 2002. FIFA World Cup in 2002 was played in two countries Korea and Japan. The reason why it's my most favorite is because, first Brazil won the final. It was my first World Cup that I've watch from the start until the end and also I had to laugh at my brothers for the rest of the summer because they were cheering for the losing teams.
Other things that I find really interesting in World Cup are; that it is not only the team who wins the final that gets a price, but as well as the player who scored most of goals; the best goal keeper and the best player of the world cup will also get a price. In 2002, we had a little idea of who will go to the final, who will win, who will be the best player and best scorer. First because Brazil was humiliated on july 12th 1998 in ''Stade de France'' in Saint Denis. Even though Brazil was the title holder, France was the host country so basically they both had chances of wining the competition.
In 2002, two heck of a players were in the competition; the brazilian Ronaldo who was discovered in the 1994 World Cup at the age of 17 and the French player Zinedine Zidane. Zidane scored all the three goals in the final, won the ''Ballon d'Or'' and the world best player in 1998.
My most funniest moment of the World Cup 2002 was when France got eliminated in the first round by Senegal. It was the most chocking game until then, it was unbelievable! Brazil made its way untill the final and won against Germany in the soil of Yokahama in Japan thanks to two stunning goals of Ronaldo. The number 9 of Brazil also gets the price of the top scorer and the ''Soulier d'Or'' of the World Cup.
In 2006, the World Cup was hosted in Germany. Another chocking moment happened, my favorite team Brazil who was the title holder got eliminated in the quarter-final by their biggest rival, France. I was so frustrated, I cried of pain that night and for me it was one of the worst World Cup that Brazil has participated.The host country Germany was eliminated during a penalty shot in the semi-final. Italy wins the final against France and one of the most important thing in that world cup Zidane gets out of the game by a red card after hitting by his head the Italian player Materazzi. You might think it's just an ordinary hit in the stomach but that hit was SPECTACULAR and SURPRISE for everyone especially coming from one of the best player in the world
Soccer is one of the most popular sport in the world
because there is some big events attached to soccer that gives it more impact. Those event are; The World Cup, Champions League, Coupe d'Europe, Coupe d'Afrique, Copa America etc.. FIFA is the world federation of Soccer, created in France in january 1904, the goal of it's creation was to improve soccer in the world. FIFA consists 208 federation of Soccer. Each continent has it's own federation of soccer, which are UEFA(europe), CAF(africa), CONMEBOL(south america), AFC(Asia), CONCACAF(north, central american and caraibbea), OFA(oceania).
The first president FIFA was Robert Guérin and the actual president is Joseph Sepp Blatter. The reason why I choose to do my blog about FIFA is because soccer is a part of my life since I was a little kid. I grew up in a family of boys that love soccer and I basically learn everything about soccer.
2002 was the year that I got really interested in soccer on the occasion of the 17e FiFa World Cup Korea/Japan. I started watching soccer in 1998, unfortunately I couldn't understand everything. FiFa World Cup is my most favorite event in the world, National Team of Brazil is my favorite team, Champions League is my second favorite event in the FiFa and FC Barcelona is my favorite team. I've been through a lot with those two teams, disappointment in some years, I've been made fun of because of our loss in some games. Despite this, I still love these teams very much.
In FIFA, there is rules that are applied on players, referees and coaches. Just like in every other federation of sports, players are not allowed to drug themselves in any case. If a player gets caught for ''doping'' can get expelled from the team, risk of not being able to play in any other team, risk of rehab, a fine or the painful thing is it can be the end of your carrier.
Doping yourself while doing sport, especially a popular sport like soccer is consider cheating. First, you have an advantage on other players, more chance of winning and a lot of energy to do great things that other might not be capable to do at a normal health. Injustice is not tolerated and especially when drugs is involve.
In the follow lines, I'm going to talk about events, historic, persons attached to the FIFA such as a soccer game, World Cup, Brazilian national soccer team, FC Barcelona, Champions League, Ronaldo, Messi, The 3 best soccer player of all time, Ballon d'Or and Barcelona vs Chelsea etc...
