no shame~

its the end of the world cup for korea now...

losing to uruguay 2-1....

the first goal that they conceded was a howler... defensive error... keeper error.... just gave suarez an open goal to shoot the ball into....

having said that, the korean equaliser was a keeper error from the uruguayan keeper...

the match winner from suarez was a beauty... curled it around off the post into the net....

korea had their chances... could have got a dream start with a free kick, but that hit the post and went the wrong way~

there is no shame in losing in the round of 16's.... i just hope i dont have to wait another 8+ years to see it again....

i hope uruguay wins now.... so that korea only lost to the eventual winners... haha

Korea goes thru~!!

nervous nervous game.....

but in the end, a 2-2 draw with nigeria was enough to take us thru to the second round of the world cup~~

this is the photo after park chu young scored off a free kick.....

this was great, especially based on the fact that he was the one who conceded the own goal against argentina.... well, he copped some crap from the korean public, but now he's back on the good side of the press~~ haha... good on him~

Uruguay now.... not easy, but not impossible by any means....

woo hoo~!!! im excited!!!

tonight... australia.... hanging on by a thread.... they can get thru on a miracle~~

cmon~

robbed...

australia are essentially out of the 2010 world cup now....

just like 2006... it ends sourly with a spastic call from the referee....

harry kewell is sent off in the 24th minute for an intentional handball in the penalty box....

first of all... we should have had cahill in this game....

secondly.... it wasnt a handball... so it shouldnt be a penalty kick, nor a red card.... in the end, ghana scores the penalty and the game is tied 1-1.....

ghana have now beaten serbia 1-0 with a "handball" penalty, and drew australia with a penalty as well.....

an african nation WILL win the world cup.... just keep giving them penalties....

just... fever~~

well... both key players that i talked about before the world cup have made an impact in the world cup.....

Jisung Park scored korea's 2nd goal yesterday to secure a 2-0 win for korea....

Tim Cahill got a red card tonight against germany in a 4-0 drubbing....

realistically, in this tough group, the aussies werent expecting too much.... it was the other 2 games where we need maximum points....

in all fairness, serbia and ghana are probably thinking the same.... germany was always going to dominate this group.... so this red card is really the big downer for the socceroos now.... in a mediocre at best socceroos... to play ghana without cahill.... well.... its gonna be tougher than it already is.....

im still a bit dumbstruck as to why pim verbeek played cahill at striker.... i dont think i've seen him ever play upfront.... hence the lack of ball... which probably led to the mass frustration for cahill....

ah well.... its only 1.... 2 more games to go.... cmon~!!!

on a much much brighter note for the aussies~~

Lleyton Hewitt beat federer on grass!!! broke a 16 match losing streak to the fed-express.... saw the match.... i cant even say that federer played that bad.... hewitt just looked great on grass....

wimbledon again???

hmmm.....

World Cup fever... in Seoul~

It's on~!!! the world cup has started, and on Day 2, Korea played their first match...

they beat greece 2-0 in the first match~~

i went out to Seoul Square to watch it on a big screen.... there were thousands of people and the entire square was just one big mosh-pit..

to make everyone more crazy, it was bucketing rain at times... so everyone was drenched, going wild in the rain.... there was a supporters' concert which started 2 hours before kick-off, and people just kept coming and crowding up until the square had overflowed, and the police had to close off the roads so people could stand on the road and cheer.....

when korea scored their first goal early in the game, random strangers were pulling each others shirts and hugging everyone around them.... kinda really awkward.... but it was still fun~

the 3rd match last night was USA vs ENG.... we went to Itaewon... which is just a seedy foreigners' hangout area in seoul... its where alot of the US military guys hang out... the sports bar that we went to was packed out like a mosh-pit again... half poms... half yanks....

who did i cheer for?? i was fully chanting and cheering for THE DRAW~!!! and.... it was 1-1~~

NOTE: korea is the only team to have scored 2 goals in the world cup~~ haha... lets see if that would last another day with algeria playing... -.-

C'mon AUSSIES~!!! lets kick some german ass~!!