World Cup 2010: First Impressions

My interest in this World Cup started to grow after Switzerland upset Spain. The Swiss TV moderators didn't dare utter the thought that Switzerland might win, but the team showed them.

But Switzerland seemed to inspire other teams as well. Serbia upset Germany, one of the favourites and Mexico upset France.

So at the moment the only team to have played convincingly so far has been Argentina. When a journalist asked coach Maradona if the players were doing so well because of his affectionate hugs after the game, he almost had a cow :-)

Other favourites like England are struggling, none of the African teams have lived up to their promise, Brazil and Holland have won their games but not impressed, nor has Italy.

So I am looking forward to the knock-out phase when the teams have to play to win. In the meantime don't forget to watch Switzerland - I am counting on many more upsets there. Remember Greece and the European Championship 2004?