Dear readers, I just want to congratulate you with the start of the greatest football tournament between national teams - World Cup 2010! It's a real holiday for all football fans. And I am truly excited about World Cup 2010 and hope it will be great and unforgettable championship.

Previous World Cups in my life

"What did they mean to me?" – I ask myself.

I remember I became an active World Cup watcher since 1994. Since that wonderful time when I was only 12 years old. The best national teams with the best players compete for one of the greatest football prizes having less than month till the tournament's end. It's always cool to see clashes of different football styles.

I'll try to recollect the most impressive (for me) moments of World Cups I watches earlier:

1994

Brazilian national team and its attacking pair Romario and Bebeto.

1998

Unbelievable performance by Chilavert (legend goalkeeper of Paraguay), red card by Beckham, final between France and Brazil (I was supporting France).

2002

Strange playoff games by South Korea, early match time when I had to turn on TV in the morning for live watching of the matches, amazing Ronaldo, beautiful goals of Dennis Bergcamp and Ronaldinho.

2006

First of all, Ukraine's debut at World Cup championships and getting to the quarterfinal! Excellent performance by Fabio Canavarro, last Zidane's match in the final with his head kick and red card.

What I am planning to do during World Cup 2010

Well, it will take much time to watch all World Cup matches.Though in my case it's absolutely impossible to watch them all. But anyway I have intentions to follow this plan:

- watch all matches starting at 21:30.

- watch all matches on Saturdays, Sundays.

- watch second-halfs of games starting at 17:00 every working day.

- visit the most popular Kiev sport/beer bars together with my friends.

The last point is really interesting for me because normally I prefer to stay at home, sit in comfortable armchair and drink favourite beer watch a game. But now it's time to experiment. There are many interesting places in Kiev where I could watch World Cup matches on a big TV screen with a good company. At least I hope so.

My favourite for this year tournament – Spain. Just because I like and support attacking football.

 

And what do you think of World Cup 2010? What are you hopes?

PS. I would like to congratulate the best forward (as for me) in Football Manager 2010 – Andre-Pierre Gignac – with nice yesterday's debut match in World Cup final stage. It would be great if he score so often as he does for my Leeds in FM 2010!

True Football Manager