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The Beautiful Game

You know how people always go on about football. I mean, it is becoming less and less rarer to find a football fan these days. I counted around a 100 Indian users for FIFA 11 on Gameranger on Thursday when the India-Australia match was on.

The beautiful game

But the annoying thing with them is how they go on about the beautiful game – about how slick the passing is and how they roar about when Berbatov misses a sitter or when Nani dumps a long one.

Football is all about the skill moves – the deft long ball from Scholesy, the sweet caress of Van der Vaart, the diagonal raker from Stevie G, the sheer power of CR7, the cut inside from Messi, the Rooney through-ball, Zizou’s piroutee and other countless tricks. They stand up from a mundane match and scream aloud – look at me. Look at me.

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The World Cup is finally here … er… there

I am somewhat of an rarity in India. I never tend to follow cricket with the same passion as some of my friends do. On the contrary I belong to the outcasts of Football lovers. So, the world cup is something I eagerly look forward to.

The Jules-Rimet Cup

Although, I am yet to bargain with my parents regarding setting up the box in the hall room to finally telecast something watchable, I am excited. Being a serious fan means talking a lot as shown by so many of my good friends. I thought of giving out my predictions for the World Cup :mrgreen: . Hey, no betting though !

Group – A

South Africa South Africa
Mexico Mexico
Uruguay Uruguay
France France

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FIFA 10 : First opinion

Yea ! It’s study holidays and what better time than this to play FIFA :D .Installed and played around 10 matches and here’s the first sneak-peak review. I did everything on Pro difficulty.

FIFA 10 -Rooney

Overall, there doesn’t seem to be any ground-shaking changes. Squads are all updated. New transfers are all in. Pity, all of this will get outdated once we reach 2010′s January Transfer window ;)

  1. Biggest Disappointment : There’s NO OPENING VIDEO. What ? :shock: I mean, I love those videos. A real big disappointment . In fact, the one on FIFA-06 was my alltime favourite. Remember

    ‘ Game after game after game … I realize the one thing still important in my life ….
    Football ‘

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