always helps to work with people like these, @updub dances for Pele
Well done Kieran
You’re the real legend
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Pele
As a kid, I was really into soccer. I remember it was either soccer or music. I remember the day that I chose music and gave my soccer up. I played as a full back and I loved it. Perhaps someday I will return to my soccer roots. . . I wrote an album about it.
But my point has nothing to do with the album Soccer.
When I was a kid and all into soccer, I went to soccer camp and one day when it was raining and we couldn't go out and practice, we sat around and watched old Pele clips. Pele inspired me. Those clips of his ability and especially this picture, are drilled into my mind as the definition of a soccer great.
This memory somehow struck me many, many, years later when I was living on Bear street. I wrote Arantes do Nascimento. . . Pele.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
What's a trip to the Big Island without a stop at the Volcano Park?
The volcano park has tons of great educational exhibits – and is one BIG exhibit you can drive thru, walk thru and explore! From walking thru lava tubes to hiking the trail of devastation, this is one awesome park and a tribute to the awesome power of a volcano. So amazing that the Hawaiian Islands were formed via these same volcanoes! As I mentioned, you can't see hot flowing lava at the park unless you walk a couple hundred miles from the end of the road towards the coast. Take a helicopter tour and you can see the lavaflow from the sky. Don't forget your sunscreen and definitely bring your camera! Hawaiia Volcanoes National Park:http://www.nps.gov/havo/index.htm
We actually qualified? Awesome.
Watching last nights FIFA Confederations Cup matches I turned up on my sofa expecting a bit of a dead rubber, of two dull draws and Egypt to join the already qualified Brazil in the semi-finals and try and make an African mark in the tournament. The USA were already on the plane home. Two games, two defeats, no points, minus 5 goal difference.
However, as the first half of Italy v Brazil unfolded and Italy looked like the aging team that they are, Brazil scampered into a 3-0 lead. It became clear that the USA might have to check back in to their team hotel. They were leading 1-0 against Egypt and only needed a swing of two more goals across the two matches.
When Clint 'All American' Dempsey headed in to score and the USA clinched a 3-0 victory to match Brazil's win, the crazy turnaround was complete.
I have never known such a turnaround in a major tournament, but think it is a real shame that Egypt could not make it to the semi-finals. With football coming to the African continent I wanted the FIFA Confederations Cup to showcase African football a bit and build towards next summers tournament to see if Pele's prediction will come closer to coming true (In 1977 Pele predicted and African nation would win the FIFA World Cup before 2000).
I appreciate that South Africa have made it to the Semi-Finals, but more out of New Zealand and Iraq's inability than through any quality of their own and they will not pose any sort of threat to Brazil in the Semi-Final.
That should leave a final between Spain v Brazil - which should prove an enthralling match. Spain who love to keep the ball and Brazil who must be the best counter-attacking International team out there. They are probably the only team who consider a corner for their opposition as a decent chance to score themselves. Im backing Brazil to end Spain's run in a game that promises goals.
On the basis of this tournament to date, it still looks a certainty that the winner of next year's FIFA World Cup will be European or South American - and it would not surprise me at all if it were Spain and Brazil in the last four again this time next year.
