Well done Brazil. It
was deserving victory against Croatia in the inaugural match of the World Cup tournament
at Sao Paolo in Brazil. It was shown on
TV in Goa at 1.30 AM today 13th of this month.
Full marks for Neymar’s performance of which type I have not
seen when he plays for Barelona. In this
match his ball control was superb, dribbling was fantastic and passing the ball
was accurate. Though his first goal was not very powerful left footer yet it was
very accurate from outside the box that totally fooled the Croatian goalie. In the second goal he teaches a very good
lesson for the penalty takers how to shoot it, that means very hard giving no
chance for the keeper to save it even though goalie may put his hand for the
ball as it was done by Croatian keeper. It was a right decision by the Japanese
Referee to give the penalty as Croatian defender clearly pulled the Brazilian
forward in the Box. The third goal scored by their youngster Oscar was just a
class by itself. He did just the right thing by hitting the ball with his toe without
wasting any more time otherwise it would have been difficult. The self goal
scored by the Brazilian defender was his real unavoidable mistake though such
mistakes are not acceptable from world class defenders.
As a whole both the teams played aggressive soccer in which
Brazil dominated the proceedings and even missed more scoring chances.
Brazilian keeper Julio Ceasar played well.
Brazilian counter attacks were very piercing. With this victory Brazil
will go on improving their performance match by match. Their accuracy in short
passing even near their goalmouth was pleasure to watch.
Being a new country born from the split of Yugoslavia when
Yugoslavia was balkanized in the aftermath of the collapse of Communism in
Europe in early Nineties, Croatia has been doing lot of development in soccer.
They have innumerable foot-ball Academies to coach young boys from the very
early age and this programme helps Croatia to develop its soccer on scientific
basis.
Capt. Paul D’Souza from Candolim, Pintos Vaddo, in early
Nineties when his Ship docked in one of the Ports in Croatia, visited one of
his friends there who while wishing him bi-bi said that “he wants to take his
son now for training to the foot-ball Academy”.
When Capt. Paul D’Souza asked his friend how old is your son? Came the
reply saying “Three and Half”. From here one can know why these countries in
Europe are doing extremely well in foot-ball. It is the scientific training methods from the very early age. Can’t
we in Goa emulate their example to produce Peles, Maradonas, Ronaldos and
Messis by establishing soccer Academies in every locality?
Candolim, Goa.
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