Confederations Cup Soccer Championship Highlights

I tweeted commentary for the first time via my twitter i.d. as I watched the Confederations Cup final between Brazil and the United States and the third place run-off between South Africa and Spain. Tweeting about five or six times per half so it wouldn’t get crazy, I figure I might keep it up for other competitions.

Now on to the highlights.

• Bottom-of-the-barrel U.S. rockets into second place in group play beating Egypt 3-0 to move on to the semi-finals.
• Italy gets bumped off in an embarrassing 0-1 loss against South Africa, a great part of the reason the U.S. advances.
• Egypt loses in a hotly contested (at least by Egypt) group play match against Brazil 4-3.
• Brazil squeaks by on a questionably-called free kick to beat South Africa 1-0 in the semi-final while no free kicks are called in South Africa’s favor for similar and worse fouls during the crucial part of the game.
• The U.S. beats a too-casual Spain an impossible 2-0 using a power-in-numbers defensive strategy that proves to be a brick wall, and taking advantage of Spain’s conservative midfield and defensive positions to score on two of many breakaways won.
• Brazil beats the U.S. 3-2 after being down 0-2 at the end of the first half. But it really should have been 4-2 with a “ref didn’t see it” goal by Kaka caught in-goal by Howard.
• Spain wins most stylish uniform – part-royal, part-Star Trek. They also win most gang-bangable.
• South Africa wins most attractive crowd with their white-white teeth and their beautiful facial features.
• South Africa wins “most want to take an uzi to” for blowing those horrible horns throughout the games.