SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS

I just received my July issue of FourFourTwo magazine, which was pretty much pre-World Cup. But it has some interesting tidbits that I thought I'd share in case some of you haven't seen it.

1) In 'They Said What?' - This from Javier Mascherano of Liverpool FC: "Emilio Insua and I live in a private neighbourhood. He lives in one tower and I live in the other. There are 15 metres between us and we used to look at each other through the window."

2) A German professor has come up with a mathematical equation that predicts Germany will win the WC. This is it: P(n)=(meanP-1/2).cos(2pi over N n)=Germany wins.

3) Several players were interviewed about what they would do if their team won the World Cup. Diego Forlan had the longest answer. LOL. Here it is:

"It would be the biggest party the city (Montevideo) has ever seen. It would last for one week! At the end, I would treat all of my friends and family to a trip wherever they wanted to go in the world - which would probably be Punta del Este in Uruguay, where the party would continue. The most difficult part of being a South American footballer is that we are far away from our families in Europe. Winning the World Cup would give me an excuse to spend more time with them."

And one last curious thing about Uruguay: the importance of the "zeros".

1930 - Uruguay won the World Cup
1950 - Uruguay won the World Cup
1980 - Uruguay won the 'Mundialista' - a tournament of the previous World Cup champions
2000 - Uruguay adopted their present kit
2010 - Semifinals or ???

Have a good day everyone! :)