U20 World Cup Chewing Gum #12: Los Quarters
Ah, penalties. The fascination of the neutral and the torture of the emotionally invested.
Ah, penalties. The fascination of the neutral and the torture of the emotionally invested.
Instead of folding at the biggest challenge this team would face, they rose to the occasion with their best performance of the tournament.
How do you celebrate a Champions League title? Any damn way you want.
With every passing game, we’re one step closer to finding the 2015 U20 World Cup champions.
It’s funny/tragic just how much the manner of elimination affects the perception of it.
A first up loss for the Ferns and it doesn't get any easier as they face Canada, the hosts. A fair amount about that loss to the Dutch and plenty of over stuff from the first few days of the Women's World Cup
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have our round of 16 finalists.
Hence nobody needed to freak out over the America result.
And on the seventh day, nobody rested. Indeed, the stakes were never higher.
Not even the annual referees convention had as many whistle-blowers as FIFA did this week.
"Tonight I will spend alone in abstinence but Saturday night I shall party."
Every major tournament there’s always at least one smaller nation that punches well above their weight.
Tell ya what, some of the goals at this tournament have been absolutely outstanding.
Let’s write this one off. If we played the USA 100 more times, we’d probably lose 98 and draw 2.
Four days in and the goals continue to flow with the rain.
There are more important things than the result, sometimes.
And so the best young footballers on the planet have descended on New Zealand...
So close to victory, not far from defeat. We'll take it.
No sooner does one season end, then the next one begins.
We don’t know where these promising careers will end up but they’re already well on the way to wherever that is.