Footie Moments of 2009
Odd numbered years never have the enormous weight of anticipation (or the crushing sense of disappointment) of years that include big international competitions. However, as we approach the World Cup in South Africa, it feels as if 2009 may be paving the way toward a magnificent 2010 that may well include a Division One championship for my beloved Leeds United and (big gulp) a World Cup for England. Here are the highlights for me: Team of the Year: Barcelona; they had so much quality throughout the side that it really didn't matter if one or two of their key players (Henry, e.g.) didn't always perform. In Xavi and Iniesta they have the most effective midfield in the world and the core of a Spanish side that may well win next summer.
Player of the Year: Didier Drogba; yes, he's not really a fan favorite outside of Stamford Bridge, but even the most grudging among us that howls at his floppiness has to admit that we'd love him at our club. He is, simply put, a game winner and may well lead his Ivory Coast side to the quarter-finals next summer.
Game of the Year: England's thrashing of Croatia at Wembley, which put paid to the notion that it's thrashing of Croatia in the fall of '08 was a fluke. We must be cautious here, but Capello's England are probably the best England team since 1970.
Disappointments: France cheating their way to World Cup 2010; Leeds United's inevitable collapse in the Division 1 play-offs.
Hopes for the New Year: Simple; an England captain raising that little golden statue in July for the first time since Bobby Moore grabbed the Jules Rimet from QE2 at Wembley in 1966. An end to more than forty years of hurt.
So, what got you lot jumping off the couch in 2009?
posted by The Blue Devil @ 5:18 AM
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RFK stadium, the place heaving with Costa Rican support. The Ticos go 1-up, and the stadium goes beserk. Face-painted, drum-beating men and women in the aisles and the "Si se puede" chant ringing. 3 minutes later, they grab another and now US heads are dropping.
The US starts the 2nd half positively, but it puts Costa Rica into a defensive set. Again the crowd around us is singing and chanting and drumming. It seems catastrophic.
Then Bradley latches on to a goalkeeping parry and the US scores. Now the pandemonium is US based and loud. Costa Rica make subs, we do too. The Ticos are very edgy, but their support starts chanting "si se puede" again. A US hero is needed. Will it be Jozy? Or the newly arrived Kenny Cooper?
No, in the crowd, a middle aged drunken man wearing a latex Captain America mask stands up on his seat. "Sit down" they yell behind him. But no, this man urges the US crowd on, and starts up the "Here We Come" response to the Tico crowd's "Si se peude" chant. Soon the entire section is yelling "here we come!" and the chant is picked up and spreads through section after section.
But is it too late? No, because Bornstein has one more say in the matter and heads in a 90th minute equalizing goal.
The crowd goes completely mental, and the drunken, middle aged man's work is done.
Who was this masked man I guess you're asking. Who? Why it was your fellow LOB-er, the Gooner71.
At your service America.
Magic! I want photographic evidence of that moment.
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