{"id":369,"date":"2006-07-05T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/05\/world-cup-update-3\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T13:12:36","slug":"world-cup-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/05\/world-cup-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see much of the World Cup games over the weekend, as we were in Chicago at a friend&#8217;s wedding, with drinks and dancing and socializing, and various other things that were more attractive than watching penalty-kick shootouts. A few scattered observations all the same:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appearances: not always decceiving. See Wayne Rooney&#8217;s attempt to geld a Portugese player.<\/li>\n<li>Some really sweet goals in the recent games. Germany&#8217;s two-header against Argentina to tie it up was amazing, and France&#8217;s goal against Brazil was pretty sweet as well.<\/li>\n<li>By the way: France? Over Brazil?<\/li>\n<li>I loved the German keeper&#8217;s minimalist celebration after blocking that last shot.<\/li>\n<li>For all the bitching about the Italians diving and flopping, the Dive of the Tournament has to go to Odonkor from Germany, who had a play against Argentina where he tried to kick the ball, whiffed completely with no assistance from the defender, and then threw himself on the ground without being touched, drawing a whistle.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, lest the Italians get off too easily, what was up with Grosso yesterday? There was one point in the second half where he spent a couple of minutes rolling on the ground like he&#8217;d had a foot hacked off, but when they rolled the tape back, they couldn&#8217;t find any point in the play where anybody touched him. And then he got up, and jogged off the field. What the hell?<\/li>\n<li>I was pulling for the Germans yesterday (two of their young stars were born in Poland, which is as close to an ethnic rooting interest as I could find), but I have to admit, those two goals the Italians scored were pretty sweet. There really wasn&#8217;t anything the Germans could do about either one&#8211; they were just great shots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s France-Portugal today. I have no real opinion on either team, other than vaguely rooting for their opponents in the previous round. Here&#8217;s hoping for some scoring, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see much of the World Cup games over the weekend, as we were in Chicago at a friend&#8217;s wedding, with drinks and dancing and socializing, and various other things that were more attractive than watching penalty-kick shootouts. A few scattered observations all the same: Appearances: not always decceiving. See Wayne Rooney&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/05\/world-cup-update-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Cup Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}