Truly the Beautiful Game

The world's greatest sporting event has come to an end. FIFA World Cup 2010 will now become thing of the past. But a past that would make the Africans proud. There is truly nothing in the world that can unify people as football does. People of South Africa, all blacks, whites and Indian origins all came together as one country and has put up a great show. For all those who where skeptical about South Africa to host the World Cup, they proved them all wrong and has done it in style.

Two decades before none of the South African themselves would have believed they would host a football world cup. It was the time of apartheid, the whites plays Rugby and the black plays soccer. The whites at that time used to refer football as "gentleman's game played by hooligans" . But now it all forgotten its a thing of the past. This World Cup the blacks the whites and the Indians have all come together as never before and organized their continents first world cup.

Many countries in Africa are still under a coup and dictatorship. Africa has the most no of AIDS patients in the world, more than one-third of the population live in hunger without shelter or any sort of education. They lead a very miserable life, a life none of us can even imagine but if there is one thing in the world that can give them joy its football. Africa embraces football that no one does and in this world cup the entire continent has stood by shoulder to shoulder as their world cup.


The world champions Spain is going through a rough patch. Spain is facing troubles economically and it is on a brink. And the people are divided socially, politically, culturally. Catlan population are asking for a separate nation catalonia, they don't want to be with Spain. This can be seen between the rivalry of Barcelona and Real Madrid. As much as football helps to show anger it equally help to show the unity. Yesterday night when Spain won the World Cup Madrid went wild and even the northeast region of Spain in Barcelona which is Catalonia's capital people equally celebrated. They waved the flag not Catalonia's senyra but the red and yellow of Spain. most of them who were celebrating was seen a day before protesting for a separate nations. This shows the power of football and it is truly the beautiful game.

Even the North Koreans who are isolated from the rest of the world and are not member of the UN is a member of FIFA for more than half a century. Football can unify people than anything, this is not only a beautiful game its game of love and peace. The world cup has come at the right time for spain where the country is divided, hope the Spanish can learn from their team where Catalan's, Valencias and Madrileños all played as one to win the Cup for Spain.