In 55 days South Africa will be hosting a huge event the world cup for soccer. This tournament has been traditionally played every four years since 1930. June 11th is when this years tournament opens. Barcelona's Messis is just 22 years old and is expected to be the best soccer/football player in the world and by the looks of it he still has quite a few years to his soccer career. He sores 11 goals over the last 8 concesutive games. Messis slammed 27 goals through out the season and had 30 goals in the La Liga games. Winning the Golden Ball for being the top scorer in Europe in 2008. Since then Messi has proven time and time again for his successful talents and bringing coupus amounts of people to each game. More games are to be held on June 12 against Nigeria, June 17 against South Korea, June 22 with Greece and the final opponents will be on July 17. Argentina is picked as the favorite to play in final due to Messi's amazing talents. Barcelona a midfielder stated "Messi is incredible, a footballer you get once every 25 to 30 years." While Xavi Alonso had this to say about Messi "he Scores goals, he helps out, he put pressure on rivals, he defends. He is number one."
I thought that this was an interesting article about the World Cup that is to take place in South Africa. I would love to go see the games myself. Messi is an amazing player and South Africa is blessed to have such a talented player at there finger tips. It is great to hear that South Africa has a great footballer to provide entertainment to its citizens. In America the Super Bowl is a big thing but in South Africa it is soccer.
References
Green, Nick. "SOCCER: World Cup Could Be a Messi Situation-Pasadena Star-News. "Home-pasadena Star-News. 04 Apr. 2010. Web. 15 Apr. 2010
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