NATIONAL ANTHEM OF URUGUAY AND TRAINING PICS

While watching the World Cup games I've been enchanted by a few of the countries' national anthems. There is the well-known and beloved Germany anthem, Portugal's is also quite beautiful and stirring, and while the national anthems are ALL special, this one is my favourite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anthem_of_Uruguay

Here is a good vid of the players singing it during a previous match vs Brazil:

Here being sung by Edison Cavani:



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WC MATCHES: GHANA VS USA - JUNE 26

Catching up on my picspams! I hope I can get all 4 from the past 2 days up today, starting with Ghana vs USA from Saturday. Ghana won, putting out the second-last CONCACAF team from the WC. Here are some emotional pics from the match.

An interesting sidenote is that I heard someone on TV say that the club team with the most players at the WC was Portsmouth FC in England. I found this fascinating, because Portsmouth had such an interesting story this year. Forced into administration by a too-heavy debtload because of financial mismanagement, Portsmouth was deducted 10 points by the FA and could not recover from this, so they were relegated. Yet they have world-class players still with the team. These include Kevin-Prince Boateng of Ghana, who scored the opening goal against the USA on Saturday.



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WC MATCHES: URUGUAY VS SOUTH KOREA - JUNE 26

This match was played in driving rain. It looked absolutely horrible and I am sure it affected how the game was played, but the pics are nice because of it.

Uruguay won and South Korea is eliminated.



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WC MATCHES: ENGLAND VS GERMANY - JUNE 27

Enough words have been said already...

These lovely pics are to enjoy. (WARNING: Pics of BOTH teams below the cut.)



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WC MATCHES: ARGENTINA VS MEXICO - JUNE 27

Some pretty, pretty pics.



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