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World Cup 2010 – Day 22

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Brazil 1 Netherlands 2 (Quarter Finals)

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Oranjes and lemons
with delirium tremens.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 A bottle of vino,
said a broken Robinho.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 A think I’ll have cider,
shouted out Wesley Sneijder.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 A sciacarello,
piped up Felipe Melo.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Some beer, dark and strong,
cried a joyous de Jong.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Just show me the bar,
mourned Julio Cesar.

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 A red, then a white,
said the blond-haired Dirk Kuyt.

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 A Spanish firecracker,
hollered Maicon and Kaka.

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 Here comes the prize of a match against Ghana.
Here comes a skin and it’s made of banana.

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 Ghana 1 Uruguay 1 (Uruguay win 4-2 on penalties
(Quarter Finals)

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 When a country, full of hope, projects
Its dreams upon the national football side,
It often stirs up negative effects.

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 In penalties, the player oft elects
To blast it – sometimes high and sometimes wide –
Unlike the man that carefully directs.

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 Imagine, then, the pressure that collects
And builds and grows, fomenting deep inside
When one entire continent expects.

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 In penalties, that pressure, one suspects,
Was strong enough to staunch the Ghana tide,
Instilling fear in frozen intellects.

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 Shaping destiny, great architects
Show strength that otherwise might be defied
Whene’er the fear of failure interjects.

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 Later, when the analyst dissects
The contributing factors thus applied,
He’ll cite the weight a continent projects
When everyone in Africa expects.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/world-cup-2010-day-22/