I was not a big fan of asia football, tough ASTRO live most of the matches held in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, i rarely watch it until the final match held yesterday at Stadium Gelora Bung Karno at Jakarta between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. WoW,..to describe the performance of IRAQI players right from the kick off until the final whistle. Attacks after attacks by the Iraqi players and they never set to play defensively, spirited performance from defense to attackers.
What impressed me was the attitude and mentality of Iraqi players including the ever positive coach Jorvan Vieira who could land himself to South Korea in coming days to coach the South Korean football team. They overcome the obstacles, difficulties in their own countries where they have to train, played all the matches in neighbour countries Jordan and even face accomodation problem during the competition where they left stranded without room for few hours. Coach Jorvan only arrived in May to prepare the team for the Asia Cup 2007 with the ambition to reach the competition as far as possible. No one gives them any hope or majority of us that IRAQ will win the Asia Cup 2007 when the competition begins and even in the finals when their opposition Saudi Arabia one of the dominant force and a regular customer in the finale of Asia Cup competition. Let's hope this victory will bring cheers among the Iraqis and also bring back peace to the country.
My Salute to all the Iraqis players and to all the IRAQI citizens,...RAMOS!!!
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