A LIGHTER NOTE YET A SERIOUS NOTE ALSO.
SO IT IS ANOTHER WORLD FOOTBALL [SOCCER FOR YOU NORTH AMERICANS, BUT FOOTBALL EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD] WORLD CUP!
WE ARE SEEING BRAZIL AS NEVER BEFORE; A COUNTRY THAT GETS JUST ABOUT NO MENTION IN WORLD NEWS. AND WELL MAYBE WILL BE SO. AS FAR AS BIBLE PROPHECY GOES SOUTH AMERICA IS NOT MENTIONED IN BIBLE PROPHECY. SOUTH AMERICA LIKE THE LAST TWO WORLD WARS, WILL HAVE NO PART IN END TIME PROPHECY. OH THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE WILL NOT BE EFFECTED BY END TIME PROPHECY, FOR JESUS SAID, THAT UNLESS THOSE LAST DAYS WOULD BE CUT SHORT, NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED ALIVE ..... THE EFFECTS OF SPACE AGE BOMBS ETC. TO FULFIL THE BOOK OF REVELATION, WOULD HAVE EFFECT ON ALL PARTS OF THE EARTH, SO IF JESUS DID NOT RETURN TO CUT THOSE EVENTS SHORT, ALL FLESH FROM THE EARTH WOULD PERISH.
SO THE BIGGEST AND MOST POPULAR SPORT IN THE WORLD IS HAVING ITS WORLD CUT IN BRAZIL, A FOOTBALL CRAZY COUNTRY.
IT IS THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR SPORT BECAUSE YOU NEED HARDLY ANY PHYSICAL "STUFF" TO PLAY IT; JUST A ROUND BALL. KIDS EVERYWHERE CAN PLAY FOOTBALL, THE LEAST THINGS NEEDED FOR ANY TEAM SPORT; MAYBE BASKET BALL WOULD BE THE NEAREST NEST, FOR STUFF NEEDED.
BUT FOOTBALL - SOCCER - IS BY FAR, BY MILES, THE MOST POPULAR TEAM SPORT IN THE WORLD.
IT IS CALLED "THE BEAUTIFUL GAME" - WELL YES IT WAS. I SAY WAS, PAST TENSE.
I WAS CAPTAIN OF MY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM, AND WATCHED IT FOR ALL THE YEARS IN THE 1950s UP TO 1960 BEFORE I CAME TO CANADA AND THEN FORGOT ABOUT IT; I HAD OTHER MORE IMPORTANT LIFE PURSUITS TO UNDERTAKE.
WELL IN THE 1950s FOOTBALL [SOCCER] WAS INDEED PLAYED WITH BEAUTY; BUT THAT IS FAR FROM THE CASE TODAY.
I'VE BEEN WATCHING SOME OF THE GAMES IN BRAZIL. YES SOME OF THE TEAMS SO FAR NOW AND AGAIN HAVE A BEAUTIFUL STYLE IN THEIR PLAYING, AT TIMES.
BUT THE SAD FACT IS FOOTBALL [SOCCER] HAS BECOME LIKE PRO HOCKEY. THE PUSHING, SHOVING, ARMS SWINGING ALL OVER THE PLACE, ROUGHNESS, AND WORSE YET THE DELIBERATE FOULS...... JUST TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, AND MORE TERRIBLE. ACTUALLY DISGUSTING !!
FOOTBALL [SOCCER] HAS BECOME A BIG BUSINESS TEAM SPORT, AND WHEN BIG MONEY IS INVOLVED, INEVITABLY A "WIN AT ALL COSTS" COMES INTO PLAY [PUN INTENDED].
SELDOM NOW DO YOU SEE BOTH SIDES PLAY A BEAUTIFUL GAME.
IT'S NOW A JOKE TO REALLY CALL THIS TEAM SPORT "BEAUTIFUL" AND I CRINGE EVERY TIME I HEAR SOMEONE CALL IT "THE BEAUTIFUL GAME" - SELDOM IS TODAY.
I WELL REMEMBER THE LAST WORLD CUP FINAL FOUR YEARS AGO BETWEEN HOLLAND AND SPAIN....... IT WAS THE WORST AND FOUL FILLED FINAL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE, AND I'VE SEEN MANY OF THE WORLD CUP SOCCER FINALS.
THIS IS THE WORLD FOR YOU, THE SECULAR WORLD OF SPORT, TEAM SPORTS THAT ARE PLAYED FAST THAT IS [CERTAINLY NOT SPORTS LIKE "CURLING" - YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN] - THEY HAVE BECOME BIG MONEY AND A MENTALITY OF WIN AT ALL COSTS. AND SOCCER HAS NOT BE LEFT OUT.
WELL I'LL ONLY COMMENT ON THIS WORLD CUP ONCE MORE, AFTER THE FINAL.
OH I AM GLAD THE USA TEAM WON TODAY - JUNE 16TH.
ONE FINAL NOTE ON TEAM SPORTS: THERE IS LEFT ONE TEAM SPORT IN THE WORLD, THAT IS THE REAL BEAUTIFUL GENTLEMAN SPORT.....
CRICKET!
NOW FOR YOU NOT IN THE KNOW ON CRICKET, WELL YOU HAVE WIKIPEDIA ON THE INTERNET..... LOOK THE SPORT UP, AND LEARN ABOUT A GAME THAT IS STILL PLAYED IN THE OLD FASHIONED GENTLEMAN WAY!
NOW PLAYING LIKE THAT IS TRULY "BEAUTIFUL."
IN THE AGE TO COME ALL TEAM SPORTS WILL BE PLAYED "GENTLEMAN STYLE" AND THAT WILL BE INDEED MOST BEAUTIFUL!
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