Sweet Victory

There's one thing that Brazilians really look forward to when it comes to soccer: beating Argentina. The more important the competition, the higher the stakes. Saturday, Brazil played Argentina for the South Africa 2010 World Cup qualifiers. Only 32 countries qualify for the World Cup every 4 years, 4 of those countries being from South America. Brazil is currently the leader in the South American qualifiers, and they needed to beat Argentina on Saturday to qualify early for the World Cup. Now, if you know Argentina's soccer team, you'll know beating them in them in their home turf is a very very difficult task. They have Leonel Messi, one of the best players in the world, and their coach is Maradona, one of the best soccer players in history. Argentina is struggling to qualify for the World Cup and beating Brazil is essential if they want to qualify. Then Saturday came. Watching Brazil play that well almost brought tears to my eyes, especially after seeing the faces of Maradona, Messi and Tevez, in complete unbelief and disappointment. If I were from Argentina, I'd just pack my bags and move to Brazil and beg for Sports Refuge. Kaka and Luis Fabiano are just ridiculous. What they did in that field is what makes Brazil once again the best soccer team in the world (Fifa Ranking as of Sept 2). http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

Here's a video (in Portuguese) with the highlights of Saturday's game. Just watch how incredible Kaka's passes for the 2nd and 3rd goals were. I think he sees the field from a TV camera view, like I see the field when I'm playing FIFA 09 on my Xbox. It's crazy!!!