Poland and Ukraine are waiting and prepared to stage yet
again another EURO addition. And the traffic hour has just started injuries,
predictions and all sort of talk leading up to the Championships. Players themselves
are putting through their final swiftness trying to catch the coach’s eye. But
what can we expect?
The English might as well be the biggest enemy of themselves;
they failed to sort out their differences with their then best coach Fabio
Capello following John Terry’s racial abuse roar- and he resign.
New manager will
be taking underachievers like now England to EURO; will always be mission
impossible, taking into account the loss of experience duo, Bailey and
irreplaceable Frank Lampard through to injuries. So what Roy has in store for
the English faith full? Time will tell, next round is possible for them at
least.
One can put up their money for the Netherlands and Spain to
reach the final. They are the world best top 2 teams according to FIFA’s
rankings, but except that, with the teams they possess, they should push
through until the final week at least. But Spain will be missing some key of
their players, David Villa and captain fantastic, Carlso Puyol, but still you
can’t bet against them going all the way. High flying van Persie will be hoping
to transfer his scoring stroke to his Nation.
Portugal are an unpredictable group, they have excellent
players but they just can’t click it together. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo,
Mirales, Nani etc, but they can’t play together as a unit, they needed a
play-off in order to qualify, so it hard to say exactly what can be expected of
them. To make matters worse for them, they’re probably in the toughest
group-consisting, Germany and Spain. So can we see Ronaldo packing his bags and
leaving after just 3 games? It possible.
One thing for sure about Germany is that they can score goals.
So anything is possible with them just like the Italians, but anything less
than top 3 I don’t think it can be celebrated. With excellent young talent Germany
showed in 2010 World cup in SA, one can look forward to them archiving
something great, players like Ozil, Muller, Gomez, Manuel, Lahm etc. they are a
force to be reckoned with, so who is going to take the challenge at remove them?
From the teams I mentioned above I really can’t see other
surprises emerging from other competitors. France are a great team indeed, but
still on a building phase, host nations are also a good quarterfinalist but
beyond that will be a marvellous achievements for them. Outside the pitch,
troubles have started-or rumours of troubles at least.
Italian target Mario Balotelli has threatened to leave the
tournament early if he is racially abused. While Campbell has claimed that some
English fans will return home in their coffins from the tournament. All of this
talks before the tournament start increased the intensity but on the bad side
unfortunately. So it up to host countries to make sure they’ll be not
remembered with death and racial abuse of people in their tournament.
But beside that it promises to be a captivating campaign, who
will prevail or fall short, time will tell. You can just wish your team a good
luck and success, but only the deserving one wins, what if the English for once
can lift something? And what the Germans can say? Leaving you with that...
Till next time…
Its always looks impossible until its done” Fanele “thenatureboy”
Mbuyazi
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