Friday, June 18, 2010

This one is a tough one to pick

I admit, in some World Cup matches I have a few general rules to follow in picking which team to root for. I try to pick the team with the best human rights record history with some notion of recent improvements to their conduct. For example, this makes South Africa easy to cheer for.

However, it makes the Germany vs. Serbia match early this morning tough to pick.

Plus, he may very well be a prince of a human being in real life, and for all I know he is, but Nemanja Vidic of Serbia looks like a person Interpol is trying to capture for trial in the Hague.



UPDATE: Deadspin gets in on the fun (though it would work better if it was Austria or Hungary vs. Serbia.

3 comments:

Stuhlmann said...

"I try to pick the team with the best human rights record history with some notion of recent improvements to their conduct"

Why would you have trouble with picking Germany? In the 60+ years of its existence, The Federal Republic of Germany has had a decent record on human rights. Did you have a problem in Mexico's match with France yesterday due to Aztec human sacrifices?

Anonymous said...

its fun not giving a shit.

effing google.
pansypoo

Fixer said...

My buddy Darko from Macedonia, who is a football junkie (he even watches MLS matches ... on his phone), swears Argentina is gonna take it. I'm leaning more toward Brazil or Mexico.