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It’s been close to 6 months since the London Olympics ended and South Korean footballer Park Jong-Woo has got his bronze medal only now!
The unusual delay was caused because Jong-Woo was the infamous player who decided to hold up a sign to voice his opinion about the territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea while celebrating the win against the former. IOC doesn’t allow the Games to be “a part of a political platform”.
However, in an IOC meeting last week, it was eventually decided that Park should get his medal:
“He should receive his medal without fanfare or publicity of any kind…It was decided that this was spontaneous and not pre-planned. He also showed sportsmanlike behaviour to Japanese players after the match.”
Almost 3 years after Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal for England in the 2010 World Cup, FIFA has finally cleared goal line technology to be used in the upcoming Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup, both to be held in Brazil.
Not that anyone cares about it right now.
After all, the bigger issue is of having stadiums to play football in the first place, considering most stadiums in Brazil are still way behind schedule. It’s a classic case of counting the chickens before the eggs hatch!
After luring ‘home-boy’ Cesc Fabregas, Alex Song, and even Thierry Henry and Alexander Hleb (plenty more if you go further back), it seems Barcelona continue to be interested in poaching players from Arsenal.
The latest to be linked to the Blaugrana is Jack Wilshere.
Continuing with tradition, Barca players continue to be pseudo-agents of the club, with Dani Alves claiming about Wilshere,
“If I was given the chance, he is a player that I would sign for Barcelona.”
Not the first time we’ve heard that from a Barca player!
The fact that football is more competitive than ever is a pretty well known one, and Shaktar Donetsk’s Brazilian striker Adriano’s goal against Nordsjælland highlighted the extent to which the levels of fair play had dropped.
Having gone one step further is Piero Alva, of Cesar Vallejo in the Peruvian football league match, who decided to score after rival club Union Comercio’s goalkeeper fell on to the pitch with an injury soon after stopping Alva’s shot. It was disgraceful to say the least.
In today’s Video of the Day, check out Angel Reyna’s stunning strike for Pachuca against Cruz Azul in Mexico, and his weird WWE style celebrations.
