the deluge

A light drizzle mists the second half of Uruguay-South Korea.
At the 68th minute mark, Lee Chung-yong heads over Lugano and Muslera to score the tying goal for Korea.
The goal seems to send a signal up to the sky, and suddenly the drizzle becomes a downpour.
The wet Uruguayans wake up, push forward and move the ball around. But the Koreans stumble through the deluge, not knowing any longer what match they're playing - as if they are dropped in a different stadium. The minutes go by and they can't regain control of the ball. In the 80th minute, after a corner kick, Luis Suárez scores a stunner for Uruguay.
Korea tries to tie the game, but it's useless, nothing works. Then, as the German referee Wolfgang Stark blows the whistle to end the match, the rain stops.
The Koreans can see clearly again. Unfortunately, they see themselves out of the World Cup. They are the first to loose in the round of 16.
It all belongs to one of those scripts from the past in which destiny expresses itself through some natural phenomenon.

vyntra!

In the 24th minute of South Korea vs. Greece, Park Ji-Sung, Korea's number 7, dribles on the right-hand side and slips through Loukas Vyntra to get to the Greek box. He's inside the box and it smells like goal because there are no other defenders in sight, but Vyntra falls down hard. He bounces on the ground and lifts his arms, and the referee blows the whistle. It's a foul. It's a marvel of a made-up foul. Vyntra is behind the forward, who's got control of the ball and is ready to score, but somehow manages to convince the referee that he's been kicked. You can almost say that Korea has been robbed, and the replay confirms it. Aristophanes would've been proud.