Christmas Wishes for World Football

Its the most won­der­ful time of the year. The hol­i­day sea­son is the only time of the year when you are nice to peo­ple you don’t like and the whole thing about being naughty or nice doesn’t mat­ter cause you will still receive gifts. I’ve been more naughty than nice this year, espe­cially that one night at Club Madonna’s. Any­way, I’m thank­ful that i’ll be receiv­ing gifts but I’m still a bit greedy hop­ing that these Christ­mas wishes will come true.

Wish #1:

Stop the neg­a­tive press about South Africa’s prepa­ra­tions for the 2010 World Cup. There is a sense of prej­u­dice and anti-African sen­ti­ment when a neg­a­tive report or story about South Africa’s prepa­ra­tions is writ­ten. If you love The Great Tour­na­ment, then you want to see South Africa host this his­toric World Cup.

Wish #2:

For Barcelona to win the tre­ble this year. Its painful as a Barca fan to suf­fer through 2 straight tro­phy less sea­sons. Not to men­tion the cloud of Real Madrid, its 9 Euro­pean Cups and fafil­lion La Liga titles lin­ger­ing over­head. I want their lead in La Liga to extend to 24 points by the end of the sea­son and for Real Madrid to qual­ify for the UEFA Cup or Europa League or what­ever its gonna be called.

Wish #3:

For Cris­tiano Ronaldo to admit that he does not want to play for Man­ches­ter United any­more. The world’s most arro­gant player wants to play for Real Madrid. He has yet to come out and pledge his undy­ing devo­tion to Old Traf­ford. I already trans­ferred him to Real Madrid in FIFA 09. Its get­ting annoy­ing to hear all this spec­u­la­tion, Man U is the faith­ful wife, Real Madrid is the freaky mis­tress and Cris­tiano is the hus­band who is afraid to admit that he wants to leave his wife for the freak.

Wish #4:

That Sylvie Van der Vaart, model wife of Real Madrid mid­fielder Rafael, be loaned to Club Amer­ica of Mex­ico or some 1st divi­sion Mex­i­can team so that we can see her in a tight and skimpy Por­rista out­fit before every Mex­i­can League match. “Hot” is not the word to describe this woman’s sex appeal. WOO! If I was Rafael, Sylvie would have had 5 or 6 kids by now. It would be impos­si­ble to focus on play­ing ball.

Wish #5:
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Please put the Ital­ian Serie A back on GOL TV. Fox is screw­ing up cov­er­age of one of the great leagues in all of sports. This past Sun­day, Fox Soc­cer Chan­nel had Milan-Udinese live and then Fox Sports Espanol at half­time showed the 1st half of the same game on delay. On both Fox chan­nels the same game was on simul­ta­ne­ously, with about 30 min­utes game time dif­fer­ence. That’s ridicu­lous and the weekly wrap up show, Serie A Weekly is noth­ing but a music video of soc­cer high­lights, its a 30 minute YouTube clip. “Ciao, Italia”, the 1 hour weekly wrap up show that was on GOL TV had com­men­tary and game high­lights of every match of the week with stand­ings and the lead­ing goal scor­ers chart at the end. Much like “Ole, La Liga” for Spain. Per Favore, ritorna cal­cio ital­iano alla GOL TV.

Wish #6:

That Ronaldo changes his mind and plays for SC Inter­na­cional of Porto Ale­gre. We know all know that the World Cup’s all-time lead­ing goal scorer recently signed with Corinthi­ans and rumors are swirling that Juan Sebas­t­ian “La Bru­jita” Veron may join Timão as well. Instead, Ronaldo & Veron should sign for O Col­orado. It would be intrigu­ing to see Ronaldo up top with Nil­mar and Veron act­ing as Andres D’Alessandro’s mid­field enforcer for the newly crowned Copa Sudamer­i­cana champs. Its not going to hap­pen but a squad with those play­ers would form the #1 chal­lenger to São Paulo for the 2009 Brasileirão title.

Ladies and Gen­tle­men, Happy Hol­i­days to you and yours. Cel­e­brate Hanukah, Christ­mas, and Kwan­zaa safely and I hope your Christ­mas wishes come true.

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