If you at least know or like Tennis, then you will probably say that the number one male tennis player in the world is Roger Federer. If you look at the ATP Tennis’ Official Site then the rankings will also showed you that Roger Federer is still the number one male Tennis player in the world while Rafael Nadal is second and Novak Djokovic is third.

I am not a die hard fan of Tennis, but I do love to watch the top Tennis players compete on television. Federer might be number one, but my favorite Tennis player is Rafael Nadal. I don’t know why but there’s something about the young lad that’s just likeable.

If Federer is known as the King of Tennis, Nadal is known as the King of Clay. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, I admit that the title is somewhat ‘inappropriate’, for lack of a better word. Anyway, back to the matter at hand, tonight in the Ernst-Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, the final match of Euro 2008 between Germany and Spain is going to take place.

After almost a month of quality football (most of them though) Euro 2008 ending is almost here. After tonight’s match (or early morning here in Indonesia) we can all go back to our normal sleeping schedule. Staying up until the early morning just to watch a single football match is tiring, doing that for almost a month is asking for early retirement.

As much as I wanted to watch the final match, I don’t think I will. Read the rest of this entry »

These last few days is full of surprises, especially regarding the Euro 2008 Quarter Final results. As it happened, Spain and Italy are fighting for the last ticket into the semifinal right now, and I am watching it as I write this.

The first ticket went to Germany after they beat Portugal 3 - 2 last Thursday. The second ticket went to Turkey after they beat Croatia 3 - 1 on penalties and the third ticket went to Russia after they beat Netherlands 3 - 1 after extra time.

Surely these results are surprising because as my neighbor said, the ones who get through are the runner ups for each group. Read the rest of this entry »

Here we go again for another post where I write my take of Euro 2008 results so far and this time it is Spain versus Sweden. David Villa scored during the injury time to put Spain as leader of group D. As I write this, the match between Greece and Russia have started.

My coworker and I had a little conversation regarding Spain’s brilliant win over Russia the other day. My friend actually said that despite their seemingly wonderful play, Spain actually had a weak defense and that is somewhat more apparent tonight during the match against Sweden.

There are some controversy too during the game when David Silva was fouled by Johan Elmander. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night, I read an article on the internet that yesterday was Friday the 13th and that it could spell trouble for the Italians, since their game against Romania was also the 13th game of the tournament. But as it happens, the Italians are more afraid of Friday the 17th because in Italy, 17 are considered an unlucky number and not 13.

After yesterday’s games which kind of fall short of my expectation, I wished earlier that last night’s games will be better, and it happened to be just the case. On the first game, the World Champion tried desperately to win the game to keep them self in the competition.

But apparently, they only manage to force a draw with the Romanians. They almost lost the match but thanks to a brilliant save by Gianluigi Buffon which saw Adrian Mutu’s Penalty parried away. Read the rest of this entry »