FIFA! That Sounds Like VIVA!

The wave of FIFA engulfs every human soul- from Andaman to Iceland, the coloured, the “otherwise”, the black haired, the pepper haired and the salt haired. Sport is the culmination of the human spirit- where issues like caste, region , religion, which otherwise matter in this silly world we live in, are dumped into oblivion, in style. The time really does not matter. Matches are watched with the same wide eyed eagerness and “geist” at Ungodly hours as the other usual “sane” times. When it comes to sport, all barriers are broken. The Fever definitely seems to have the bigger ball (the world) in rapt attention, driving everyone to a new level of frenzy. And the extent of the enthu-flurry is certainly possible only due to the otherworldly magic of FIFA. More than 3.2 million tickets, a few hundred millions glued to the Blessed Boxes, and did I forget to mention the prize money (!), the figures are lavish and seemingly larger than life, but true. And the brands and the official sponsors have a rollicking time too. With all the newbie advertisements “goaling” towards striking synchronism between the product and soccer (However unconnected they would be), Soccer is the buzzword, everywhere, all the time. “A Time To make Friends”, being one of the mottos and “This” could not have come at a more apposite time, with the World, otherwise boiling in a cauldron of needless tensions, tantalizingly lethal enough.
Even I seem to be smitten by the FIFA bug. Am still like this duckling trying to grasp the first lessons of wading across the pond. The Rooney Slicks, the trademark Beckam “Free kicks”, the mercurial reflexes and the intelligent grafting,the fickle “Elasticos”,and yes, the penalty cards tempering the game.The concept of “Offside” seems to be an enigma in soccer though. And am on a name learning spree too. Most of the names seem like huge unconquerable tongue twisters! I get Peter Crouch easy, Ronaldo, ‘Inho still easier. But Zlatan Whatever(!) and a whole gamut of other names with an evident paucity of vowels, stringed by a sequence of consonants seem to be quite a challenge! But yes, It’s FIFA all the way!
JOGA BONITO:) !