Day -702. WorldCup2018
All this talk of minnows and underdogs, I'm tired. I'll say one more thing on the subject or the subject which I am loosely relating to this. Portugal won Euro 2016. It may have been unexpected. They may have not played pretty football all the time. But who decides if they "deserved" it? If they won it, they deserved it. Forget what happened before, they scored more goals than Wales and France. That's what matters in football. If anybody didn't enjoy the way it was won, then that is a different story.
Now for something completely different. On Sunday after the final I was doing an online search for stories about Eder, the winning-goal scorer. I know he's has an interesting background, but I couldn't quite remember it. Anyway I didn't find anything because I stopped looking after going through about 10 pages of headlines of him winning the Euros for Portugal. But something amused me. Whereas all the European and Asian newspaper and website headlines were on the lines of:"Portugal win Euro 2016 thanks to Eder extra time winner", the American ones (NY Times, ABC , NBC) were: "Portugal qualify for Confederations Cup". Breaking news for you: the rest of the world doesn't really care about the Confederations Cup. We have not fallen for Fifa's marketing of it as a serious tournament. "Champions of Europe" is the news, and the achievement.
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