When is a 1-0 result is more than a one goal win? When the result sets-off drama of global proportions. SB Nation contributor Mark Kozek describes the turn World Cup 2010 took with Wednesday’s shock result.
World Cup 2010 Prespectives: Spain Loss To Switzerland Means This Tournament Starts Today
How can a 1-0 soccer match be exciting? Maybe, if Spain, the sexy swashbucklers who have won 45 of their last 48 matches, get upset by Switzerland, whose soccer is a neutral as its politics, in their first game of the group stages of the World Cup by a score of 1-0, this might be exciting. But this 1-0 outcome has deeper and more urgent ramifications, and is what the World Cup is all about - drama of GLOBAL proportions.
If you study the bracket a little further, assuming no major upsets, if Brazil ends up playing Spain in the round of 16, the winner might end up playing Holland in the quarterfinals. That’s three of the most glamorous teams of the tournament landing in the same quarter of the elimination bracket. But if Italy, for some reason, comes in second in their group, then they would be the fourth team in that bracket. = DRAMA.
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