Netherlands shocks Brazil 2-1

Brazil Lost, Beaten by Netherlands Soccer Team at WC2010 – Netherlands was able to shock the world by beating five-time World Cup champion Brazil in their match. Now, the team that has been labeled as “underachievers” will be going for the title. They were able to rally for the comeback victory against Brazil, 2-1 in the quarterfinals. The team played hard throughout the game and was able to execute solidly defensively in order to help secure the victory. Wesley Sneijder was able score in the 68th minute on a header. After scoring the goal, he can up to a TV camera, tapped the lens with his finger, and stuck his face up close to the camera.

Sneijder played the hero in the victory. His teammates swarmed him as the game ended, and threw him over their shoulders. It was an amazing moment for a team that up until now had not been playing up to their potential. Throughout the tournament they have consistently disappointed crowds with games that were less exciting than they should have been. That was not the case against Brazil, though.


The Dutch had made the championship game in 1974 and 1978 but were never been able to secure a victory. In the 53rd minute of the game, Felipe Melo accidentally headed the ball into his own goal, bringing the game to a tie.
“I’m devastated. It was hard to see the players crying back there,” Felipe Melo said.
He was obviously upset by his mistake that ultimately cost his team the match and the chance to play for a sixth championship.

Brazil Vs Portugal - Big Match Today

Cristiano Ronaldo is furious he won’t be lining up opposite Real Madrid teammate Kaka, when Portugal face Brazil tomorrow in the biggest game of the World Cup so far.

The presence of the world’s two most expensive players was expected at the magnificent Moses Mabhida Stadium, as Group G comes down to the wire.

But a ridiculous red card during Brazil’s 3-1 win over the Ivory Coast means Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (his younger brother could only manage “Kaka”) is suspended.

With over a million Portuguese-speaking people in the Rainbow Nation, this was the second game sold out at South African 2010―after the final at Soccer City on July 11.

Though both sides should qualify comfortably for the last 16, the clash between the nations ranked first and third in the world is expected to draw the highest global audience of an absorbing tournament.

Ronaldo, who moved to the Bernebeu from Manchester United for £80m, and Kaka, who joined from AC Milan for £56m, would have lit up the arched stadium. Like so many others, Ronaldo fumes, "It's not fair because Kaka did nothing in my opinion, and now he won't play against us.

"He didn't deserve that red card. I saw the game and I spoke with him about it afterwards. He was angry at the time but after the game he's cool, he understands it's part of the game."

Kaka's dismissal rates as the worst of several appalling sendings off in the tournament so far.

He was given a second yellow card when Kader Keita ran into him and fell down, clutching his face. Though Didier Drogba and Kaka were chatting amiably while the referee sorted out the mess, he was summoned and given his marching orders.

Having made the first and third goals on Sunday night at Soccer City—and had a good effort well saved—Kaka looked like he was just returning to form after a winter marred by a serious groin injury.

Brazil boss Dunga called it an “unjustified dismissal,” and FIFA were expected to overturn the decision. But, as normal, the global football body let South Africa down, and Kaka is ruled out.

Dunga said, “The player who commits the foul escapes the yellow card, I have to congratulate him for that. It was a totally wrong. Kaka was fouled and yet he was punished.”

Ronaldo, man of the match in Portugal’s first two games here, will hope to add to his goal in the 7-0 win over North Korea on Monday―a strike which ended an international drought going back to his effort against the Czech Republic in the 2008 European Championship.

His goal, the sixth against the so-called Democratic People’s Republic scored three minutes from time, owed a little to a fluky touch with the back of his perfectly gelled hair.

Ronaldo grins, "I knew the goal would come eventually. I smiled when I scored because it was a funny goal, the way it hit me on the neck. I am under no pressure."

Credit : bleacherreport.com

Portugal Crash Korea DPR by 7 Goals

In the game of World Cup football 2010 Portugal scored 7 goals against North Korea. In the 29th minute Raul Meireles scored and Portugal led 1-0 at halftime.

Goal by Tiago

The next six goals were scored by Simao, Hugo Almeida, Tiago (scored twice), and Liédson. Ronaldo finally found the net in the last two minutes of the game, and Tiego added his second goal in the 89th minute.

Celebration after Simao's Goals

" We got seven goals but only three points. We need to be more ambitious and determined for the next phase," coach Carlos Queiroz said after the game.

Make Sound & Cheer Your Favorite Team With VUVUZELA

Know the Best About VUVUZELA

The vuvuzela, sometimes called a "lepatata" (its Tswana name) or a stadium horn, is a blowing horn up to approximately 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length. It is commonly blown by fans at association football matches in South Africa. The instrument is played using a simple brass instrument technique of blowing through compressed lips to create a buzz, and emits (from the standard shorter horn of about 60–65 cm) a loud monotone (A similar instrument (known as corneta in Brazil and other Latin American countries) is used by football fans in South America.

Vuvuzelas have been controversial. They have been associated with permanent noise-induced hearing loss and cited as a possible safety risk when spectators cannot hear evacuation announcements, and they may spread colds and fluviruses on a greater scale than coughing or shouting. Vuvuzelas have also been blamed for drowning the sound and atmosphere of football games .Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm oflocusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", and "a giant hive full of very angry bees".

The sound level of the instrument has been measured at 127 decibels contributing to football matches with dangerously high sound pressure levels for unprotected ears. A new model, however, announced on 14 June 2010, has a modified mouthpiece which is claimed to reduce the volume by 20 dB.

Origin

This type of plastic horn or trumpet has been used in Mexican stadiums since the 1970s. Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. Well-known Kaizer Chiefs F.C. fan Freddie "Saddam" Maake claims to have invented the vuvuzela by adapting an aluminium version as early as 1965 from a bicycle horn after removing the black rubber to blow with his mouth. He later found it to be too short and joined a pipe to make it longer. Maake has photos of himself in the 1970s and 1980s at local South African games and international games in 1992 and 1996 and at the 1998 World Cup in France, holding the aluminium vuvuzela. He says the instrument was banned as authorities ruled it a dangerous weapon, which prompted him to find a plastic company that could manufacture it.

In 2001, South Africa-based company Masincedane Sport began to mass-produce a plastic version. Neil van Schalkwyk, the co-owner of Masincedane Sport, won the SAB KickStart Award in 2001.

Vuvuzelas have been said to be based on kudu horn instruments and thus rooted in African history, but this is disputed. During the entire match, supporters blow vuvuzelas frantically in an attempt to "kill off" their opponents.

Origin of the term

The origin of the name vuvuzela is disputed. It may have originated from Zulu for "making a vuvu noise," directly translated "vuvu-ing" because of the "vuvu" sound it makes, or from township slang related to the word for "shower".

Legal challenge

In early 2010 members of the Nazareth Baptist Church claimed that the vuvuzela belonged to their church, and threatened to pursue legal action to stop fans playing the vuvuzela at the World Cup.

2010 FIFA World Cup

As part of its marketing campaign for the World Cup, Korean automaker Hyundai and a local South African advertising agency called Jupiter Drawing Room created the largest working vuvuzela in the world—114 feet (35 m) long—on an unfinished flyover road in Cape Town The giant vuvuzela is powered by several air horns attached at the "mouthpiece" end, and it will be blown at the beginning of each of the World Cup matches.

During the opening ceremony the announcer had to ask fans using vuvuzelas to be quiet as he could not be heard.

On 13 June 2010, the BBC reported that the South African organising chief Danny Jordan was considering a ban of the vuvuzela during matches Jordaan noted that "if there are grounds to do so, yes [they will be gotten rid of]" and that "if any land on the pitch in anger we will take action." On 15 June, it was reported that 545 complaints had been made to the BBC concerning the noise being made by vuvuzelas during coverage. BBC is reportedly considering an alternate broadcast stream that filters out the ambient noise while maintaining game commentary.

During the event many competitors have criticised and complained about the noise caused by the vuvuzela horns, including France's Patrice Evra who blamed the horns for the team's poor performance .He also claimed that the sound of the vuvuzelas away from the stadiums hampered the ability of the players to get their rest.^[36] Other critics include Lionel Messi who complained that the sound of the vuvuzelas hampered communication among players on the pitch and broadcasting companies, who complained that commentators' voices were being drowned out by the sound. Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo went on record to state that the sound of the vuvuzelas disturbed the teams' concentration.

Others watching on television have complained that the ambient audio feed from the stadium only contains the sounds of the vuvuzelas and the natural sounds of people in the stands are drowned out. A spokesperson for the ESPN network said it was taking steps to minimize the noise of the vuvuzelas on its broadcasts. There are some that see their use during the performance of the national anthems as disrespectful. Other critics have also noted that it is seen as disrespectful to be "dismissive of the cultures of the guest team supporters".

Vuvuzelas have also been blown outside of matches, leading to a ban by some shopping centres.^[44][45] Some World Cup football players complained that they were being awoken in their hotel rooms by the instruments.^[46] Demand for earplugs to protect from hearing loss during the World Cup^[47] outstripped supply, with many pharmacies running out of stock. Neil van Schalkwyk, manufacturer of the plastic vuvuzela, began selling earplugs to fans.^[48]

A German sound engineer has offered for sale 45-minute MP3 downloads which, it is claimed, will cancel out the noise of the vuvuzelas during broadcast television matches by means of "active noise control". Scientific commentators have expressed scepticism about the possibility of this being effective.

 Reproduced from : wikipedia.org