World Cup 2010 Blog: Merry Christmas Everyone |  |
| Posted: 25 Dec 2009 03:46 AM PST Here’s wishing everyone who reads, writes, comments on and contributes to The Offside and WorldCupBlog a very Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays.
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World Cup 2010 Blog: “Soundoff: Should a Cow Be Slaughtered at Every World Cup 2010 Stadium in South Africa?” plus 1 more | |
| Soundoff: Should a Cow Be Slaughtered at Every World Cup 2010 Stadium in South Africa? Posted: 23 Dec 2009 11:10 AM PST Seems like an easy “no” when you look at the above image. But it’s not quite that simple. The Makhonya Royal Trust, an organization which promotes traditional South African culture and values, plans to keep with tradition and slaughter an animal at every World Cup 2010 stadium as part of a cultural ceremony. Animal rights activists are obviously not keen on the idea. I don’t imagine the cows are either. FIFA has remained neutral so far. Possibly because they’re based in Switzerland. But sometime between now and June 2010, the cows in question either will or won’t be slaughtered. So what we have here is a clash of tradition vs modern values. Should FIFA respect the traditions of the nation it chose to host World Cup 2010? Or should FIFA prevent the (arguably) needless slaughter of an innocent animal? I honestly don’t know what the correct answer is. Do you?
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| See How the World Cup 2010 Match Ball Gets Made Posted: 23 Dec 2009 06:24 AM PST I am naive. I had imagined that each World Cup 2010 addias Jabulani match ball (and all official match balls for that matter) – was lovingly hand stitched by elderly and highly skilled craftsmen and women, using nothing but a pigs bladder, a leather hide, and a sewing needle. Either that or an army of Chinese children with tiny fingers. Turns out it’s neither. The official matchball of World Cup 2010 is made in a factory, like pretty much everything else in the world. Still, kind of interesting to see the process. Click here for a closer look at the World Cup matchball.
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World Cup 2010 Blog: World Cup Moments: Pelé and Bobby Moore Swapping Shirts in 1970 | |
| World Cup Moments: Pelé and Bobby Moore Swapping Shirts in 1970 Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST This is the iconic moment where Brazil’s Pelé and England’s Bobby Moore swapped shirts following their classic encounter at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. Brazil won 1-0 with a great goal from Jairzinho, but the game also featured the Gordon Banks save and the Bobby Moore tackle (click that link for video of those moments from a very England biased perspective). The shirt swapping between two great players, both of them already World Cup winners (and Pelé on his way to a third medal) was a sign of mutual respect and is thought to have popularized the concept of shirt-swapping. It wasn’t the first time players had exchanged jerseys at full-time (according to FIFA that was probably in 1931) but the above moment is probably the reason shirt-swapping happens so regularly in modern football. For more World Cup Moments, click here.
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