Birthday Party, Football Party

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

My birthday is yesterday, June 11. But I'm kinda tired of writing diary everyday. So, I just wrote it now.

As you know, European Cup and World Cup are always on my birthday. Well, birth month. It's always on June. So every 2 years I always celebrate my birthday by Euro or World Cup. And the results of World Cup 2002, 2006, 2010, and Euro 2008 were my best gift (On 1994 I didn't watch football yet).

So, how would this Euro 2012 be?

Euro 2012 started on June 8, 2012. The hosts are Poland and Ukraine. There are 4 groups, each group contains 4 teams:

Group A: The host Poland, Greece, Russia, and Czech Rep.
Group B: Portugal, German, Denmark, and Netherlands
Group C: Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Croatia
Group D: France, England, Sweden, and the other host Ukraine

The result so far:
June 8, 2012
Poland 1 - 1 Greece (Robert Lewandowski '17 - Dimitrios Salpingidis '51)
Russia 4 - 1 Czech Rep. (Dzagoev '15, '79, Shirokov '24, Pavlyuchenko '82 - Pilar '52)

June 9, 2012
Denmark 1 - 0 Netherlands (Michael Krohn-Dehli '24)
Germany 1 - 0 Portugal (Mario Gomez '73)

June 10, 2012
Italy 1 - 1 Spain (Antonio DiNatale '61 - Cesc Fabregas '64)
Croatia 3 - 1 Ireland (Mandzukic '3, '48, Jelavic '43 - St. Ledger '19)

June 11, 2012
France 1 - 1 England (Samir Nasri '39 - Joleon Lescott '31)
Ukraine 2 - 1 Sweden (Andriij Shevchenko '55, '62 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic '52)

So far, there are already 20 goals in 8 matches: means 2.5 goals per match.
The top scorers so far are Andriij Shevchenko from Ukraine, Alan Dzagoev from Russia, and Mario Mandzukic from Croatia, each with 2 goals.
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crazy goal of Samir Nasri made me goes "Holly s***!"

Personal favorites
My favorite team, as always, is Italy. I support Italy because I love cattenaccio and personally love the country.
But, my favorite players are all in Spain: Iker Casillas, Cesc Fabregas, Pique, etc. And I really, really love the way they play.
And so far, I think the best team I've seen is France. They play very beautiful. That amazing player Samir Nasri... OMG!

So, I think I'll go with Italy, Spain, and France. But so far they haven't win. Well, there are still 2 more matches for each team. Oh...why should my 2 favorite teams be in the same group?