FIFA World Cup Fever

Here we go again having a fever that does not goes away at least a month time. FIFA World Cup is here and the opening match will start tonight with host country South Africa Vs Mexico. If you subscribes Astro at home, you won’t miss all the action, all the games and goals especially with Astro repeated games. It’s gonna be a long fabulous month indeed, some of you might became zombie in the office with the lack of shut eye.

I can still remember vividly my first World Cup match in 1978, it’s only one game – the final game, Argentina vs Netherland. I saw the game at my neighbour house, there’s lotsa peeps that night in the house, well at that time not everyone can afford an idiot box. I still can see Mario Kempes’ goals in my young head, over and over again. RTM showed that game with main sponsor “tajaan rakyat Malaysia”.

I always supported West Germany (now Germany) as my favourite team, they may not have football skills like the samba boys, but what they have is the never say die attitude. Many times in past epic World Cup games, Germany would conceded the first goal, but they will rises from ashes like phoenix and scored two or three goals to win the match.

Felt like yesterday that i had this World Cup fever, the last time i had a great chance to watch the games in the host nation – Germany. I was there attending a month long course and took the opportunity watching the final match between Italy vs France in open arena in Cologne/Köln (stadium tickets was too expensive, even for European standard).

Good luck supporting your own favourite team, here’s to a great month ahead.. :)

 Ceiling at Köln main train station ala Sistine Chapel paintings. Zidane (left) and Ballack (right)

France and Italian teams entering the stadium for the final game. 

Crowd entering the public arena dressed in their favourite team

 Who’s this handsome fella?