Goal Goal Goal!

Goal is the word for the  entire month.


By the time most of us will hit for a lovely weekend in the evening, celebration in Johannesburg city would have been already started. Its time when 32 countries will battle it out to record their name in history and kiss the trophy- The FIFA World Cup

Small update on today’s games:
Host South Africa will play their first game against Mexico with almost entire nation backing them up. SA will be all charged up to earn pride for their country against Mexico.Undoubtedly Mexico has upper hand over SA but there will be no shortage in excitement and cheers.
 Game time: 19:30 IST

The big match from Pool A will be at 12:00 midnight. Last time runner up France taking on two times champion Uruguay.This will be a contest to watch out for in this Pool.
With France leaving behind all controversy and injuries, they would want to start on a winning note.On the other hand Uruguay do have a strong line up to challenge any team in the world

Player to watch out for:

Henry, Gallas, Evra -France
Perez, Sebastian Fernandez & Silva- Uruguay.

So gear up and shout loud- Goal!
ShamsnWags.

Soccer Mania

With the 19th Edition of the Football World Cup to kick start from 11th June 2010 and 30 days of utter craziness with billions and billions of people following each and every match, its time for ShamsnWags to keep their favorite Red Cherry aside and chase the Golden Ball. It’s an undisputed fact that Football is a game that is played and followed globally.
It’s going to be an exhilarating contest with every team pushing hard to lift the trophy.Right from the famous ‘Hand of God’ by Diego Maradona, to the infamous ‘Head Butt’ in last edition by Zidane, football has seen some super incidence in the ground. Not to forget killing of Andres Escobar from Columbia for hitting a self goal.
Though people still vouch for the teams that have won word cup on numerous occasions like Brazil, Italy, Argentina, the likes of Spain, Portugal & Holland are all set to break this trend
Going back to our child memories, in 1986 when Argentina won the WC, that time for Shams football meant Maradona. Now the time has changed and we are following football very closely which includes team formation, recent form of players.
Let’s have a look at some of the Key Players:
Lionel Messy (termed as Modern Maradona), Carlos Tevez –Argentina
Kaka- Brazil
Cassilla Vila & FernandoTorress – Spain
Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal
Thierry Henry - France
Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard & Frank Lampard - England
Lucas Podolski -Germany.
Didier Drogba -Iveorycost

For Shams the favorites are England & Spain, for Wags its Brazil & England.
Which team do you support? Do write in your feedback.

Shamsnwags
Photo Courtesy:
http://sgfsoccer.com/

And The Party Continues...

For Men In Blue it seems that the IPL post match party is not yet over. As seen in the IPL matches, they used to party after the matches got over. It seems that the seriousness has gone for a toss.Let’s start from the top of the order to try and figure out as to what our Blue Brigade is up to.

1) Gautam Gambhir- Has forgotten that he does not represent any Muhalla or Gully of Delhi. Simple basics like  grounding the bat while entering in the crease is hygiene in cricket. For God's sake, some one please remind him that he represents India.

2)     Murali Vijay: Is cricket all about playing on the slow tracks where ball does not bounce much or is it playing only for CSK is not very clear in case of Murali Vijay. He is supposed to be Test opener for India.
3)   Suresh Raina: At least Raina has justified as to why he has been captain for the Tour to Zimbabwe in absence of the seniors.He carried forward from where he had left behind in the IPL.
 4)   MS Dhoni:  All the plans are backfiring. MSD is just concerned about lifting the IPL trophy for CSK. Life is not going beyond that. A dismal performance for the boys under him is not accepted at all.

 5)      Rohit Sharma: Why do people have to show dissent on the field? Can they not learn from Sachin Tendulkar to let the bat do the talking?

      6) Yuvraj Singh: There is an air of attitude in Yuvraj singh. There’s a thin line in between having attitude and having the desired attitude. He is altogether in a different trip. Does he want to be the captain of the Team? If yes then we are sorry, he does not deserve it.
      7)  Yusuf Pathan: This bloke needs to come out of performing only at the state level.  He has to perform at the national level. He has completely forgotten that he has to take pride and perform for Team India. He just can’t come out of the Rajasthan  Royals comfort zone.
8)      Ravindra Jadeja: What is Ravindra Jadeja doing in the T20 World Cup while he was banned for the IPL matches for all wrong reasons ?Suddenly he fills in the slot of allrounder, dropping catches, getting clobbered for sixes. Do we not have a specialist batsmen or bowler in his place?
9)  Harbhajan Singh: He has lost the knack of picking wickets or is it too early to say he has lost his aggression? May be slapping people here and there is the only way he can show the aggression. What has happened to his spin and bounce only he can reply the question.

10) Ashish Nehra:  It’s difficult to digest the fact that Ashish Nehra has been recalled. He could not play for Delhi due to injury concerns, straight away he is being picked for T20 WC.Are we left with no options? A bright smile is on offer on his face whenever he gets clobbered. Wow what a body language to have. Is he trying the Australian way? Does he have the fire power to fight back as Aussie does?

11)      Vinay Kumar: Question mark on why he was not given a chance to play ahead of Ashish Nehra? Atleast he showed better body language on the ground. Although he got hit all over the park, but he was bowling a good line.

The body language of the entire team was bad. It could be clearly seen in the demeanor of the players. IPL has been over hyped and playing for ‘Big Moohlas’ has been the case for some of the players and they have taken cricket for granted.  That’s why time and again it’s said that Test match is the real test of character.