Good Bye, Nedved. I love you.
Dear Pavel Nedved,
I am watching your game against Italy right now. You are playing really well. You are playing so well that I don't even know what position you play. I think they call that ubiquitous or something like that. I don't have time to look it up because I want this letter to come from my heart as I am watching the final minutes of what could be your last World Cup.
You are possibly one of the best players I have ever seen. I never even heard of you before I saw you play against the US (where you totally ....
My heart just broke. Italy has just scored the nail in the Czech coffin. It is now 2-0 at 87 minutes and there ain't a chance in hell you can save the team now. I am truly, truly sorry. God I hate to watch the Italians play. They just aren't inspiring. They are over-payed babies, not hard muthafuckas like you and the others. Their greatest skill and winning strategy is to fall all over the place- which admitedly they do do much better than a lot of teams. I just can't get down with respecting that.
If it's any comfort to you, clearly everyone knows you are the Man. The whole stadium was chanting your name the entire game- Ned. Ved. Ned. Ved. and now that the game is over even the Italian players are the ones hugging you and patting you on the back. I think even they know you play better than they do. But you can't beat a whole team with one man- especially Italy, who knows how to play.
I am sorry you guys had to lose to Ghana too. I do love Ghana and I am sorry you had to be the lambs who let them into the second round. I would prefer to be watching Ghana cream the Americans right now, but for some reason the German TV channels thought it would be (too expensive?) to show both games. So I will have to wait and see and read the results on line.
Anyway, you're 34 now and I doubt I'll be seeing you again in this capacity. You were great though and I won't forget.
Much love,
a devoted fan
ps. if you are involved in any of this Italian soccer scandal I will be really disappointed in you.
posted by Katie @ 5:41 PM
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Have you seen the Gatorade commercial that shows numerous clips of the US soccer team played to some inspiring music and at the end it says "It's a whole new ball game". It is the kind of commercial that makes you cry if you catch it during the right time of the month. Well . . . sorry boys and girls but it is over. Maybe we should stick to baseball?
I know those commercials and I cry too or get goose-bumps. Unfortunately they don#t have that here or much like it. The germans don't play the sentimentality card very often. Too bad. i like a good cry.
The World Cup isn't over. Lots of fun teams are still playing. Watch Ghana get beaten by Brazil. Brazil is just better, but Ghana will fight to the death and that will make for a great game. Italy will continue to shut out and on and on. Germany plays on Saturday and they are pretty good too.
Keep the faith. No baseball unless you are hung-over and too lazy to do anything else.
Thanks for reading, Tom!
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