Saturday, June 10, 2006

Ball artists, Elephants, Gauchos, Ticos, Tifosi or even Oranjes???

 

So, I’m back… after a while, but like you see, i’m still very busy, even i don’t know with what ;)
The football world championships have started today, and I was looking forward to it for months now… they are in our neighbour country Germany, and this country already has played their first game. they played against Costa Rica- and guess who won (even i think you know it already, because i think it is not possible to hear anything what is not about football world champion if you put on the radio and listen for more than 5 minutes…)Germany of course… Cry
 
Well, besides the football world championships is not much up so… well, there is of course the Grand Prix of Great Britian this weekend, in Silverstone. It’s just like that, that because of this big hype about the world championships this all went a bit into the backround, maybe also because it is not so much exciting at the moment. Alonso is the clear leader in the WM, i guess he has 21 points more than Michael Schumacher- this means Fernando can fall out in 2 races now, even if Schumacher will win them, Alonso still will be the leader of the World champoionships. Kimi already gave up this title. I understand him, it must be quite frustrating, to be such a good driver, but it’s just like that the car- (or better- the engine *chrm**chrm*- Mercedes…) is like shit… McLaren- Mercedes is really not competitive at the moment. This is not just because of the engine of course, to be on top in forumula one must be a lot of things which must run poerfect- and at McLaren are a few wrong things at the moment. There is for example still this ‘miseria’ with the second car. It is already clear, that last years world champion and this years world champion leader, Fernando Alonso, at the moment driving for renualt, will go to McLaren next season (2007). But who will get the second car? At the moment Kimi Räikkönen and Juan- Pablo Montoya are driving for McLaren. Welll, everybody knowes that Juan- Pablo is not really the darling of the team, mostly because of his own head, and his stubborn and egoistic behavior. His style is risky, and he makes often mistakes. If Monty has a good day hardly anybody can beat him, but his good days are hard to find. He is also very emotional and he doesn’t want anybody to give him any adive- don’t even try it, it won’t help… anyway, it is no secret, that McLaren would want Kimi for 2007 and not Juan. But there are a lot of rumours, that Kimi will go to Ferrari, and it seems in some austrian newspapers already clear, because some journalists are tellig about already fixed situatuions (i wonder how one reporter can know this, what the world’s press is guessing about for months…). So, but it seems like that, that McLaren will leave Kimi- but whom to take next to Fernando? It seems like if also Montoya has no big wish to stay at McLaren, but as long as he doesn’t know where else to go, he would stay i think.
If McLaren still wants him. Because they have still the possibility to get a few other drivers. Louis Hamilton for example. Record champion of the Formula 3, and now succesfully driving ing GP2. That the GP2 has many young and talented driver already the two youngstars of Williams- Cosworth and Renault, Nico Rosberg and Heikki Kovalainen, show. But is Ron Dennis able to put a young, sure talented, but still very young, driver into the highest class of motorsports into a top car directly? Former situations have showed that there is a big step between formula 1 and any other racing series under it. Many talented drivers broke on this wall. You don’t need just the talent and the passion for driving. You also need a lot of luck of course- and experiences. As much as possible of them. The best would be if Hamilton would stay for one year at test driver at the team. So he could learn a lot of things, see how the team works, get many experiences- and this all without any pressure form outside. This would be very important for him. But whom else to take then? If Kimi is away? To get another young driver? Buying any other pilot for one year? I guess these things are not in the mind of the teamboss. I think he would save Juan- Pablo for one more year, if Juan won’t find anything else. I guess this will be like this, and so Monty will sign.

But back to football.

Who will win the football world championships?

I guess this is one of the most asked question at the moment. Well, and i guess in most of the answers you hear: BrazilWell, it is really like this. The guys from Brazil are ball- artists. They really play excellent football, and i think if someone can beat them, then they just themselves.
But you mustn’t forget Germany. Okay, maybe they are not as good as Brazil, and if they play like yesterday, the Brazils would win for sure, but this was the first game, and also Michael Ballack was missing, so the team was some kind of unsure. But they won, and i think this was deserved. And they also have som advantage, because they can play at home.
Who else could win? Well, this is hard to say, because there is of course much what can happen in such a World Championships. I just want to remind you on the European Chapionships two years ago, when Greece won. Please, who would have bet on Greece when it had started? Well, me not, and i think i would have called you crazy, if you would have told me this. But they won. And where are they now? The European Champions of 2004 in football are even not qualified for the World Championships.
So, and i will bet 1 €uro on Trinidad & Tobago now, because if they win i will get 600 € back ;) Laughing

Everything can happen.

 
 
 
That’s life. That’s football.
Posted by susi at 08:50:31
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