World Cup begins

I’m almost too tired to write this entry, so will keep it short.

After finishing work at midnight I made my way over to the Peterson residence to watch what was left of the boring opening ceremony, followed by the not-so-boring opening match between Germany and Costa Rica.

In the last ten World Cup opening matches, a total of nine goals were scored. Germany won this game 4-2, so the opening match hoo-doo (if you could call – or spell – it that) has been broken.

In match two, Poland are playing Ecuador. It’s 1-0 to Ecuador with only 15 minutes left to play. This will, I believe, be considered somewhat of an upset if the South Americans come away with the win.

I snuck 20 minutes of sleep in between getting home and the kickoff of the Poland-Ecuador game.

Go the underdogs.

UPDATE:
In the 80th minute, Ecuador score their second! I don’t know why it’s so much of an upset,as the commentator suggests. Poland is ranked 29, Ecuador 39. Surely Australia (#42) getting a 1-1 draw with The Netherlands (#3), even if in a friendly, is more of an upset. But then, this is the World Cup, and this was a ‘resurgent’ Poland.

I think world rankings are fairly unimportant in the scheme of things, given six of the top 20 ranked teams aren’t present at these finals.