Sunday, June 11, 2006

The World Cup is here again but the kiwis are not bothered at all

Yes, the soccer world cup is here again and everyone in the world is buzzing with it except in rugby crazy New Zealand. It has been reported that this world event can cause war to stop temporarily, cause many sleepless nights among the die hard soccer fans and of course, the millions, if not billions dollars that will be generated in soccer betting. It is perhaps, the biggest sporting event alongside the Olympics.

In NZ, you hardly hear of anyone talking or discussing about it. In fact, the rugby test between the All Blacks and Ireland this weekend get greater coverage than the World Cup. However, we do get daily highlights coverage of the event and they do show 8 matches live on TV 1. Sky TV shows all 64 matches live but the matches start at around 4 am in the morning till 9am.

To all soccer fans, may the best team win this year world cup. As for myself, I do hope that England will meet Brazil in the final of this year competition, first, because I am familiar with English soccer players and second, because Brazil plays great exciting sexy football.

The results so far:

England 1 Paraguay 0
Brazil 1 Craotia 0
Argentina 2 Ivory Coast 1
Australia 3 Japan 1

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