{"id":104,"date":"2002-07-01T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:21:08","slug":"penta-campiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/penta-campiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Penta Campiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_ronaldo_letters.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil crowd know who they appreciate\" \/><br \/>\nHow bright his star is shining<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to think up tabloid headlines like &#8216;Kahn you believe it?&#8217;, &#8216;Ronaldo the Kahnivore&#8217; to title this entry, but decided to keep it simple instead. Indeed, I&#8217;m only going to burden the world with another two points of game analysis. But before getting on to that, I have to say:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Brazil&#8230; commiserations to Germany&#8230; what a game that was&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So then, my two points&#8230; the first concerns the moment the Cup was lost; the second the moment it was won. I guess by now everyone knows when they were &#8211; the two Brazilian goals.<\/p>\n<p>I had a feeling that this first meeting between Brazil and Germany might be defined by the Ronaldo\/Kahn duel. It had been Kahn&#8217;s Cup until the final, in the sense that Manchester United&#8217;s European Cup victory had been Schmeichel&#8217;s Cup &#8211; the crowning moment of an illustrious career. For Ronaldo, on the other hand, there were the ghosts of France 1998 to lay to rest.<\/p>\n<p>I would have felt gutted to see Germany lose 1-0 yesterday&#8230; when Kahn spilled Rivaldo&#8217;s weak shot at Ronaldo&#8217;s feet, he didn&#8217;t just give him the ball &#8211; but also the Cup. This was defining moment number one for me &#8211; not the goal itself, but Kahn&#8217;s fumble. I would have been upset to see Germany lose that way because I believe something as momentous as the World Cup should not be <i>lost<\/i> so much as <i>won<\/i>. And winning a game like that takes a positive statement of some kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which is exactly what the second Brazilian goal was. A spectacularly beautiful goal, no less, which finished a move that contained everything I love about Brazilian football &#8211; blistering pace, guile and consummate skill. With that goal, I thought Ronaldo made victory legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>In that second defining moment, Brazil <i>won<\/i> the World Cup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bottle of Wine\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3L8PjJ9YSB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinkcow.com\/\">The Pink Cow<\/a> hosts a toast to the end of our trip and we remember France 1998 with a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/the-bottle-of-wine\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taku muses on the mascot&#039;s future\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7fzzlWJ5iQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>What does happen to World Cup mascots when the comeptition finishes?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/taku-muses-on-the-mascots-future\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:320px;height:240px\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/japan\/tokyo\/semi_ronaldo_letters.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil crowd know who they appreciate\" \/><br \/>\nHow bright his star is shining<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to think up tabloid headlines like &#8216;Kahn you believe it?&#8217;, &#8216;Ronaldo the Kahnivore&#8217; to title this entry, but decided to keep it simple instead. Indeed, I&#8217;m only going to burden the world with another two points of game analysis. But before getting on to that, I have to say:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Brazil&#8230; commiserations to Germany&#8230; what a game that was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"geo":{"latitude":35.6912880000000001246007741428911685943603515625,"longitude":139.6983794999999872743501327931880950927734375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}