World Cup Withdrawal Syndrome

Congratulation to Spain for the 8th country to win the World Cup. Even though I supported Germany and Spain defeated Germany in the semi final, I must agree that Spain is the better team. The best team in the world right now you might say. Especially the Spanish goal keeper Iker Casillas that won the adidas Golden Glove award, if not for his great saves, Netherlands might have scored a few goals already.

The next big tournament will be European Cup 2012, which will be another two years. Germany with the youngest team ever has a very good potential to give Spain a hard time in Euro Cup 2012. Especially Thomas Muller which has won both the adidas Golden Boot and the Hyundai Best Young Player Award. So, look out for Germany in the coming years.

As World Cup 2010 draws it's curtain, life for most football fans will take some getting used to. There won't be football everyday like during the group matches. It's already quite hard for me to wait a few days in between the quarter finals and semi finals and final. Now I'll have to slowly adjust myself to nights with out live football telecast.

Good thing is that I'll only have to hold for one month because Barclay Premiere League 2010/2011 will starts on August 14th 2010. There will be football every weekend to look forward to. Then slowly there will be Champions League, too bad Liverpool won't be playing because they finished 5th in the last Barclay Premiere League. I'm not a Liverpool fan though :p Hope Rooney will get over England's defeat and get back in form for his club Manchester United. Let's get another Treble ManU!

Okay. I'll try to do something else during 10 pm and 2.30 am now that World Cup 2010 has ended. See you again in 4 years time in Brazil, World Cup.

Bearmany In The Quarter-final

Great performance and skill put on by Bearmany on the round of 16 knock out stage. Right timed passes that created goals and chances in front of Englbear's goal. Miroslav KLOSE scored the first goal (this is his 12th goal in World Cup finals, which put him on par with Pele for 4th on the all time list). Just 12 minutes after the 1st goal, Lukas PODOLSKI scored the leading goal. Bearmany broke the Englbear's defence with passes that beat their offside trap.

Picture from FIFA.com

At 37th minute Matt UPSON scored Englbear's only goal when Lampard did a short corner and Gerrard helped perfected it with a cross to the penalty area where Upson put in the ball with a header. It was like 1966 again (only this time it works the other way around) when the goal the put in by Lampard was denied by the referee. I really pity Englbear because from the video playback I clearly see that the ball had crossed the goalpost. Too bad FIFA doesn't acknowledge video technology to clear dispute. What they plan is to add two more line referee in Brazil World Cup 2014.

The 1st half ended with Bearmany leading 2-1. Englbear started the 2nd half quite strong but alas it's still not enough to make an equalizer. At 67th minute, Bearmany's ticket to the quarter-final is as good as stamped when Thomas MUELLER put in Bearmany's 3rd goal. Just 3 minutes after that the 4th goal was scored again by Mueller almost the same way as the 3rd goal. This ends Englbear's road to the quarter-final. Great job Bearmany.

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Okay, Beargentina won the knock out match agaisnt Chile and in the quarter-final Bearmany will be meeting them. This will be quite an exciting match as both teams play quite an attacking football.

World Cup 2010 Is Coming Soon And I Support...

Bearmany!!! Okay. The South Africa World Cup is about a month away but time pass very fast. With EPL ending soon, focus will be on the World Cup. So let's hope all the players are well rested from their league playoffs and put on a good show during the World Cup 2010.

Now before the real battle begins, why not we do some warm up first. We can start off by going to the Celcom Blue Arena where we can play some online game like Blue Challenge: Bearlance the Ball game. I have quite a hard time balancing the football on the Blue Bear's head.

All you have to do is move your mouse so that the football won't roll off from the Blue Bear's head. You'll win if you manage to keep the ball on it's head for 30 seconds or more. I managed to do it on the third try. Oh, to my surprise, I get a reward from my effort.

Some exclusive download from Celcom is the reward. You'll be asked to choose your favourite team. There are four teams to choose from, England, Brazil, Italy and Portugal. Seems like my favourite team is not there. So I simply choose the first choice, which is England.

After I chosen the favourite team. I will be able to download a Bearigamy PDF file which I needed to print out straight away because it can't be saved. I can write my name on the back of the Blue Bear before I print it out. Now I can go home and fold my Bearigamy lol.