Sponsored by Bing, each installment of I Scored a Goal is equal parts autobiography, historical perspective, and sports documentary. Players ranging from Josef Masopust, who references what it was like to be an athlete under Czechoslovakia’s communist regime and scored his country’s only goal in its 1962 loss to Brazil, to Marco Materazzi, who tied up the 2006 World Cup Final for Italy with the help of a ray of light and his deceased mother, all tell heartfelt, intimate stories. Each man, in hist native tongue, relates what it was like to be a hero in the world’s biggest game.
My favorite of all has to be Uruguay’s Alcides Ghiggia. In 1950, in front of a crowd of nearly 200,000 Brazilians at Estádio do Maracanã, Ghiggia scored Uruguay’s winning goal against Brazil in the 79th minute of play. As he tells it, “The Maracanã has been silenced by three people…the Pope, Frank Sinatra, and me.” To this day, he’s still approached by Uruguayans for photos and autographs.
If that doesn’t get you hyped for the 2010 World Cup, check out June’s Vanity Fair. If all that doesn’t work, you should probably just stick to American football.
Don’t miss a single game this month by tuning in to watch live online streams of the 2010 World Cup and get into the game with Budweiser’s Bud House online reality series.
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