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Unqualified

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 I’ve an idea
for that World Cup day
when group games are finished
and no teams play:
Make up two sides
from unqualified nations.
Players who’d give up
their summer vacations.
Cech, Ivanovic, Bale, Agger.
Jovetic, Turan, footballers with swagger.
Pit teammate and teammate;
brother and brother.
Let Zizou take one team
and Pele the other.
If back in the sixties
we had this test,
FIFA would claim
it discovered George Best.
I know what you’re thinking:
Sepp will say no.
Far too much risk
Ibra steals the Show.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/unqualified/