So close and yet so far…

October 20th, 2009 | by: Gianfranco | Comments Off

Well, we gave a good fight and we almost made it, but we didn’t. Sorry for the long hiatus but I was tremendously sick and I had some family issues, anyway let’s review. After our great victory against Tahiti, Venezuela faced Spain for the U-20 World Cup. We gave a good fight but we lost 3-1. We still qualified to the next stage, but in second place. We kept our heads up as we saw that our next rival was United Arab Emirates and since it is not a greatly known soccer team, they thought they were going to be easy. So wrong. We lost 2-1 against them after an arduous game. Ghana finally won that tournament against Brazil.

We saw this as depressing, but there was still hope for our nation to enter a prestigious tournament. It was difficult, but not impossible. Our 1st game against Paraguay, we were very impressive. Vega made incredible saves and our offensive was solid, but we couldn’t stop them from scoring. It ended 2-1 as it was a very close call but then we were officially eliminated from the World Cup. Me and my friends were devastated to see our team fail as they were so close. They game against Brazil was totally meaningless but it was fun to watch as both teams attacked in various occations but it ended 0-0.

MAybe next time we will be able to qualify, and that movie about the Vinotinto would actually mean something (I thought it was a dumb idea too). Now what we can do is look towards the future, and hope that the youngsters who played in the U-20s World Cup will be in the senior side and bring joy to millions of Vinotinto fans.