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Oddball World Cup Stories Liven Up Otherwise Boring Event
With the 2010 World Cup over and the victorious Spanish team back home after being met with a hero’s welcome, the population of the world settles back to their pre-tournament routines.
Looking back, the 2010 South Africa tournament was not that different from any other World Cup tournaments in the past in terms of controversial match moments and the decisions of referees and match officials. So was there anything unusual that this year’s World Cup will be remembered for?
On digging around, here are some of the more odd events and peculiar characters of the 2010 World Cup tournament. Memorable? Maybe not. Weird? Maybe.
The Vuvuzela – Horn From Hell
What has to be one of the most successful or annoying features of the tournament, heard from the streets of Birmingham to the World Cup stadium in Johannesburg, the Vuvuzela is typically a 65 cm (2.13 ft) plastic blowing horn that produces a loud, distinctive monotone note.
Guerrilla Marketing – The Bavaria Babes
This clever little stunt involving a bevy of beautiful Dutch ladies all dressed in orange certainly had FIFA hot under the collar. This clever little stunt involving a bevy of beautiful Dutch ladies all dressed in orange certainly had FIFA hot under the collar, if not necessarily for the intended reasons. With a stadium audience of tens of thousands and a world audience of millions, this little publicity stunt certainly paid off, much to the disgust of FIFA and the official beer sponsor of the games.
The Psychic Octopus
And you thought you had heard it all. It’s true, Paul the German psychic octopus is retiring from the betting business after a run of correct predictions at the South Africa World Cup – Hopefully after earning enough cash to buy a swish aquarium in Spain and live out the rest of his days in comfort.
French World Cup Team Goes On Strike – Who is truly shocked or surprised?
Remember when the French squad went on strike in protest against striker Nicolas Anelka’s expulsion from the team, following a locker room rant against French coach Raymond Domenech? That was ludicrous. I think that Zinedine Zidane, former French football star, put it best by saying “We will remember this World Cup for who wins it and the France team for refusing to train.” Could the squad’s training boycott have cost them advancement in the World Cup?
Man Tries to Disguise World Cup Trophy with a Woollen Hat
An unidentified man broke through security and ran at the World Cup trophy to place a hat on it. Needless to say, he failed as security personnel rushed towards him before the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, July 11, 2010
The North Korean Players Who Decided that Life on the Run was Better Than Losing a Game
Two of the North Korean squad were not getting as whipped up in the frenzy as everyone else, and tried to escape and defect before their match in a bid to escape the hard labour sentence handed out to the 1966 players after they returned home without the trophy.
Portugal demolished them 7-0. Let’s hope we don’t see an entirely new 23-man squad come their next fixture.
Even the Native Baboons of South Africa are Secret England Fans.
Peter Crouch’s family was lucky enough to get up close and personal with some local baboons when their apartment was invaded by them.
Crouch’s girlfriend Abby Clancy said: “They were in their hotel room when these three baboons jumped in, walked straight through the bedroom into the lounge to the fruit bowl, took what they wanted and walked out. It’s like they knew where the fruit was.”
Not sure if the fruit incident was before or after autographs were given.
So there you have it, 7 lesser known facts of the 2010 South Africa World Cup. With 4 years until the next big event, we can only hope that the 2014 tournament will have even more weird and wacky off-pitch antics.
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