It has been refreshing to watch the Women’s World Cup after a year of what seemed like incessant diving, media spats and general cynicism in the Men’s leagues. In honor of that the highlights from Sunday’s WWC Final featuring the solid US Ladies and the surprise-package Japanese Women.
Well done Japan. Here’s to you ladies, it’s nice to see people playing for the love of the game.
In Monday’s New York Times economist Richard Thaler uses Frank Lampard’s ridiculously ruled out goal in the World Cup as a jumping off point to draw parallels between the challenges facing football referees and financial regulators. In “Level Playing Fields, in Soccer and Finance”, He proposes several solutions to the problems of football:
he 2010 World Cup is over and a new name is on the trophy for the first time in twelve years. Spain was the first team to win the cup having lost their opening match, but the loss to the plucky Swiss will be remembered as a blemish in an otherwise outstanding tournament for the Spanish. How did Spain, until twenty-five years ago a relative backwater of international football, rise to dominate the beautiful game? What loosed La Furia Roja?
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88,547 is the number today. It is the number of seconds left until kickoff of World Cup 2010.
Ok, it is a bit of a cop-out in terms of a post, but I am unbelievably excited about the tournament and the US’s chances!
