Once in four years, the entire world has the fever, the most hyped ‘Soccer fever’. It’s here. After 4 years of waiting, it’s finally here again. This time in Africa! Our Maxis commercial ad bringing two celebrated world players, Lionel Messi and Frank Lampard envisaged standing at your doorstep whilst earnestly pleading is more than a gentle reminder every time it flashes across our TV screen! So much so that all football enthusiast were geared up for the sensational event of the year!!
Friday, June 11, 2010 began with aplomb. Let’s welcome back the biggest, most exciting, anticipated and dramatic event in the world… FIFA World Cup 2010, the event we have been waiting for so eagerly with myriad of electrifying matches, players’ dexterity in battle field, golden player stealing the limelight with their excellent finesse, tactical fixture, dribbling style and line of attacks across 34 teams ranging from invisible team up to top ‘guns’ which leaves us gasping for more. Every nook and corner, we catch glimpse of jerseys various preferable teams for sale (as in Argentina, Brazil, Germany & England). Billboards carrying the official ambassadors of world cup tournament, and indisputably star stoppers as Lionel Messi. Cafes and restaurants are jam-packed with football aficionados alike with their mug of teh tarik, coffee and yelling at the top of their voice ‘goal!!!’ if a goal is scored or followed by huge roar of disappointment if Jabulani ball decide to take a huge diversion and cause anxiety to all..Wakawaka Wakawaka ( Even laughter has been glorified with soccer spirit). All the countdowns and whatnots seem like a universal carnival! At least, I can proudly claim that our hearts and spirits are united in this soccer platform! Voila!
Now, all the rhetoric articulated above has stormed in and expected to last at least till the finals on 12th July 2010. I do like football but I am not really so obsessive till I stay up late night for all the matches. If there are real world cup fanatics, my apologies! Go ahead! Enjoy your World Cup. But frankly speaking, I have metamorphed into an ardent ethusiast of soccer! By no means, will I ever fail to keep informed on the up-to-the-minute information on soccer results, happenings in South Africa and what’s being said by officials, coaches and catch up with the players’ excerpt in media. And not to forget the show stopper, Paul the Octopus aka Oracle of Oberhausen for his famous predictions! Hahaha..Although I don’t have faith in such superstitions in this century, yet, it was fun to wait and find out the probability of Paul’s prediction! On top of it, it’s very silly for some fans to get mad at the poor cephalopod with caveat of making a dish out of it! Very amusing to me though it only reflects nothing but absurdity. Com’on folks, leave the mollusc alone. It was just picking its food, not a team to taste victory even though they are known as intelligent creature. Don’t corrupt them too for god sake! To me the oracle’s divination is bizarre but personally I feel soccer is becoming too superstitious these days. Soccer should not be admixed with ridiculous convictions and ruin the true fortitude.
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