The ManicaPost
THE World Cup was un-contentiously decided at Maracana Stadium in Brazil on Sunday, July 13: German 1 Argentina 0.
The best team won and the World Cup carnivals and “funerals” are over. Congratulations to the winners, and commiseration to the losers! After all, football is only a game.
I want to remind my English Language students to remember not only the beautiful game, but also the beautiful language. Here is my last list of some of the beautiful expressions used by the flaming commentators and analysts:
1. Scolari is looking for a hiding place
2. Brazilians in total disbelief
3. Crestfallen Brazilians
4. Disaster day for Brazilian football
5. There is no hiding place from this rampant German team
6. Maracana is going to be the Germans favourite holiday destination of the future.
7. Ruthless Germans tearing the Brazilian defence apart
8. A horrific goal-line which will be greeted with disbelief by the world
9. Nobody would have come here expecting to witness the carnage we have seen here today.
10. German AMG – accuracy, movement and goals.
11. No friendly headlines in newspapers and global TVs tomorrow for the Brazilian team
12. Muller has his appetite for goals back
13. Heaviest loss in Brazilian football history
14. Complete day for utter misery and disbelief
15. Not one moment of joy for Brazilian team
16. To take a bit of solace from a horrid day
17. Goals came thick and fast in the first half
18. Total humiliation for Brazil in their own country: humbled, hammered, humiliated.
19. Record defeat
20. Most extraordinary score-line in world cup history
21. Roundly booed by Brazilians in the crowd
22. Maracana became training ground for the Brazilians.
23. To say it has not been the Brazilians’ day would be an understatement of the year
24. Five minutes to go — five minutes of torture for Brazil
25. Germany, a nation that simply understands how to win
26. Smiles and inner satisfaction — typically German
27. The team that obliterated the Brazilian pride.
28. The greatest intercontinental football competition
29. Eyeball to eyeball with the ’keeper, only to be denied by the goal post
30. Mario Gotze with a touch of genius
31. The planet’s most-talked-about footballer, Lionel Messi
32. Nail-biting contest
33. Messi fails to join the company of the all-time greats
34. Germany, irrepressible nation of winners
35. At the expense of the stressful Argentines
36. Gotze cannot wipe the smile off
37. If there is one man you would like to be tonight, it is Mario Gotze
38. Messi struggling to turn his frown upside down
39. Perfect nightmare for Argentina
40. Angello Mickel, the face of their World Cup
41. Sweet victory, no higher to climb
42. The fireworks illuminating the party in Brazil and Berlin
43. A WORLD CUP TO BE ENGRAVED ON OUR SOULS FOREVER.
