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Has The Internet Made Our World Cup Better?

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Spain vs Germany 2010

After watching last nights long awaited world cup semi final between the current european champions Spain and the impressive, high goal scoring Germany, which I must say was a very tense match especially as I was watching it with a spaniard who was endlessly shouting at the television thinking he was really there in the staduim.

 

At the half time break the score was still an agonising 0-0 and during the tv adverts there was a constant push for Internet Marketing of the world cup where so much information is accessible online these days, for example if you had missed any of the previous games you were able to watch them on the internet, being able to view all the live match statistics as well as join an online forum to discuss your own thoughts and post your own comments.

 

The world cup in South Africa has been such a hit and boost for the countries economy, especially due to the large increase in tourism during the football.

 

So many online business have made a success throughout the time of the World Cup in South Africa, not only through travel and football merchandise but common accessories such as those noisy trumpets they call a vuvuzela which i saw for sale in my village shop, i didnt buy one as i intend on keeping my friends!

 

If you are lucky enough to visit Durban I recommend you visit the newly-built Moses Mabhida football stadium, as this was one of the most impressive i saw on tv during the World Cup. My friend was visiting his parents and got to seesaw Spain play there first game against Switzerland which they were to get defeated there..

Talking to a friend after the match who works for a company who specialise in Ecommerce website design he was sure that the Netherlands were going to win the final.

 

Some of the football sites also have some fantastic web design too!

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Why The 2010 Summer Will Be A Great One

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

It has been said that this summer is going to be a great one for all Europe. At least for the northern countries, that means less rain and warmer than usually weather while that may not be so god news for the Mediterranean ones where higher temperatures won’t be that pleasant. What is not very known is that during summers where there is a world cup, people travel less and they are quite happy to stay at home with their friends and family. It is definitely at big social event rather than a pure sports one, given the influence it has on so many people’s daily life around the world.

This is another reason that raises even higher the expectations of the forthcoming summer. Football and non football fans around the globe are all, to a greater or lesser degree anticipating the 1st ever world cup to be hosted by an African country. I don’t think many people would be indifferent to a pretty warm summer, where there will be many social gatherings because of the World Cup. It has been such a hard winter this year, and recession made it even heavier, therefore all Europeans are looking forward to a great summer.

The most common picture from the summer includes a lot of friends taking their places around the Telly in the balcony, trying to listen to the commentator’s voice coming out of those. Kids will be running around playing with their summer toys, say a rc helicopter,while at the same time their parents will be enjoying a cold glass of beer straight out of the beer keg chiller. And if there are some people around that do not enjoy watching football that much, you should expect some great barbecue too.

Hopefully for many, there’s no room for mistakes in the scientist’s forecasts for the summer. So lets hope everything will be as well as we expect it!

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