Can Korea bring it? Copa Del Mundo Style
After limiting my WC intake this weekend to One full game and parts of three others...I'm getting ready in the bunker for the conclusion of Round I and the beginning of the epically-entitled "Knock-Out Round"... but before I go into any of that I want to take a moment and give major props to the Nation of South Korea and their preformance yesterday in willing their squad to a draw versus "Les Bleus"....
Here's a rundown of the nation that just topped Croatia as home to the best World Cup fans of 2006:
Area: 38,000 sq miles
Population: 48 million
Capital: Seoul 37deg35 'N/127deg E
Government: Presidential Democracy
President: Roh Moo-hyun
Liberation: 08.15.1945
Calling Code (essential in Lodge recognition): +82
So here is a Lodge shoutout to a budding Futbol nation that has shown they belong on the International Stage...keep it up the 206 is watching now, don't let us down.
posted by Jimbo at 10:34 AM
14 Comments:
I have to say their crowd amazes me and to see 20,000 gather at the home Shaq built (Staples Center) was also a great thing to see. They certainly belong on the major powers in soccer.
Oh yea, Korea is raw. About the size of Western WA with 50x the pop? Their ad campaigns on the Korean channel are way inspiring soccer-wise, i would argue they have more media spirit than even Latin America. Thats how raw they are. I mean, did you see the crowd that went to Germany??? I would recommend going to a Korean restaurant during one of their next games. Fed Way anybody?
France has looked terrible in the Cup so far. They'll need a win in the next game to advance... crazy weird how badly they've played.
its in korean, but lodge-telligble. the 2006 korean WC song. Featuring a hard rock theme, basically starts off with a North Korean plot to sabotage SK's WC hopes. With special homages to OLDBOY & Shiri films
Not sure if you guys have been keeping up with Michael Davies blog... shout out to Davies for finding this Jersey Font Web site, at which they analyze the use of fonts on all sorts of football shirts worn by the world's top players.
WOW...it's what I've come to expect from the 82, completely crazy and unpredictable or as Duke puts it...RAW!!!...they had some wicked chants going on yesterday...definitely have to be somewhere they play the Swiss...
As for the "Les Bleus", just another unachieving performance that doesn't deserve advancement, but because they're playing a team that almost boycotted the WC next, have a legit shot at the round of 16...but not if the 82 has anything to do about it...because We're the One!!!
I would actually prefer a website on futbol shoes. work on that for me joe. also, i'm going to work long this week so i can take friday short and watch the korea/swiss game - 11:00a seattle time. hopefully find a korean restaurant that has good tvs.
while Duke wants shoes...I want descriptions and origins of all current mullet styles of the World Cup...past and present...Eastern Bloc vs. South American...hook me up 2.0...
so I gathered at Casa 2.0 for the USA/Italy Match.
Something happened that even I had issues believing. I enjoyed the match.
I have to say the offense was a little dull but man was I getting into the Goalkeeping of Kasey Keller. Every big save he made I found myself shouting like an actual fan. I even started getting mad at the Italians, who flopped more than a Karl Malone Highlight film
I wont say Im a fan, and probably wont tune in to too many world cup games, but for one shining moment on a June afternoon, a small part of me died....the part that hates soccer.
Clap clap clap clap clap....Clap clap clap clap clap..GEORGE BUSH!!!
ask and you shall receive World Cup Hairstyles
By the way. Jimbo. Lets Recognize the milestone. Welcome Post #500!!!!!!!!!
It was fitting that it came from the Poobah
also hair as decided upon by Fox Sports, an honorable mention for Serbia, and the diss for Angola & Sweden, of course the bbc brits bring it a little tempered.
So-Ko as I like to call them have been somewhat of a suprise this WC but in my eyes not that much of a suprise.
I just had to comment to the fact that I witnessed Zidane's last game as a proffesional player. What a horrible way to go out. He was given a terrible yellow card late in the game. So now he is out for the last game of the group. Just terrible! Top on that the fact that he was taken out of the game and the french fans didn't even notice because they were being drowned out by the ravenous So-Ko fans. Zidane deserved better.
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