12-06-2018, 18:40
Not a great WC for football, too much emphasis on defence, and teams struggled to get free-kicks on target with the flyaway Jabulani ball ballooning all over the shop.
I mainly remember Ghana's run from that tournament; what a great advert it would have been for an African team to reach the semis entirely on merit in the first World Cup on African soil. Instead they met Cheating Louie, and the rest is history.
I mainly remember Ghana's run from that tournament; what a great advert it would have been for an African team to reach the semis entirely on merit in the first World Cup on African soil. Instead they met Cheating Louie, and the rest is history.
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