again world cup?

Yeah, did you realize that nowadays every second topic in a conversation is about football? The funny is that in certain countries, after the Cup is over, they won't talk about it for the next 4 years...

I realized something interesting these last weeks here in Switzerland, probably in other places it also happened. All electro-eletronics newspapers have been advertising which equipment the most? TVs! It is amazing! And compared to a newspaper from 3 months ago the prices aren't cheaper, they are the same, just a few really worth, but now the 'new' TVs have a men playing football in it, and not necessarily a Swiss one.

Why? marketing department thinks people have the rush to buy a new TV? or that the ones that never haven't got a TV at home (like we after a year) will need to buy a TV now in order to watch it? pretty dull, ahn?

But the best thing on the week, to go deep into the subject, was the game Switzerland X Spain. All my Swiss colleagues (rare to find) were saying: we will be very sad after the game because Spain is gonna eat us alive. At the end of the game, going home, the city looked like after a big wedding (here in Europe). All cars in the street (I believe the Swiss ones) were horning to each other, even the buses! In the bus my friend was the bus driver informed in the loud speaker 'Switzerland won!!!', and he got no reaction, then he said it is not a joke, and then people start to make noise, so unexpected victory it was.

This is happiness! I hope they will be good on the next one too! congrats!

world cup is here!

As a Brazilian, I have to admit that this is the most waited sports competition for us. Awaited for four years, we always have the hope of winning, specially over France! And as I see ad listen, Swisses and we share the same thought as seen in a T-shirt in the streets in the French Switzerland:

'je supporte deux équipes: la Suisse et n'importe quelle autre qui battra la France!'

Meaning that: " I am a fan of two teams: Switzerland and the other who is gonna win over France!. Not that I think they have any chance, but at least they do their best.

Also on the streets around Geneva, you can see the Brazilians and other teams supporters moving around already with the team T-shirts! The city is gonna deploy big screens for the 'people' to watch the games. And this years world cup has an advantage for who is in Europe: as South Africa is in the same meridian this means the time of the games won't be like when it was in Japan or Australia.



So, this is it. Good luck to all teams, but mostly to Brazil, I think they will need it since I have heard around here that our team is not the best as our coach has done some bad choices. SO we might say may the best team win! (or the one who has a good financing company, not to mention the happening in the cup of 1998, when Ronaldinho (or Ronaldo as Hungarians say) 'pretended' to be sick and had to give up the match and let France win... well...nobody ever could explain that...

FYI, this is the google's Easter egg for the 'world cup' research...

So, as we say in Portuguese: I hope my poor Brazilian fan heart won't suffer that much...