2023-08-20 15:00:00
Attacking Third: Soccer Highlights and Commentary Youtube Capture
[ 매드타임스 박재항 대기자] The biggest surprise I picked for this Women’s World Cup soccer was that Japan was eliminated in the quarterfinals rather than Spain’s victory. In the last game of the group stage, Spain, the champion of this tournament, was defeated 4-0, and Norway, a traditional stronghold, was defeated 3-1 in the round of 16. He said it reminded him of the Netherlands in the 1974 Men’s World Cup in Germany or the Invincibles in Hungary in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. Was it a strange sign that the team took the championship for granted and linked it with the two teams that only finished runner-up? Such predictions, especially in sporting events, can be outrageously wrong, and sometimes they are right like a cow. There are things that have remained in my memory as a strange reversal in countless predictions.
Perhaps because Cha Bum-geun entered the German Bundesliga and showed great success, around 1980, a Korean public TV broadcast recorded a Bundesliga soccer game once a week and showed it. So, among the soccer players who represented Germany, there were stars who were also popular with Koreans, and among them, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was definitely the best. In 1980 and 1981, he received the Ballon d’Or Award for the best soccer player for two consecutive years, and also achieved second place in the World Cup twice as a main player for the German national team. As is often the case with famous players, he played an active role as a commentator after retiring. In April 1991, a prophecy during a broadcast on Germany’s public broadcaster 2 remained in history as much as the feats of his player days, and has been talked about by many people until now. there is. When asked if the Kaiserslautern football team could win the title, he replied:
“That will never happen. Kaiserslautern’s odds of winning are as slim as Michael Stich’s chances of winning Wimbledon.”
Michael Stig is a tennis player who started playing professionally in 1988. Until the spring of 1991, when Rummenigge suddenly mentioned his name while talking about soccer, he had never progressed beyond the third round in the Australian, French, Wimbledon, and US Opens, which are commonly referred to as the four major Opens. Did Ogi trigger? He reached the semifinals at the French Open, held right after Rummenigge’s comments, and finally won the Wimbledon tournament that year by beating fellow German Boris Becker. And, of course, Kaiserslautern also reached the top of the Bundesliga that year.
There are plenty of false predictions made by well-known figures in the field. The person who said in 1974, “As long as I live, there will never be a female Prime Minister in Britain,” is Margaret Thatcher, who will become Prime Minister five years later in 1979. Schroeder, a West German politician who shouted in 1989 that “there can be no reunification in Germany”, saw the fall of the Berlin Wall a few months later, and in 1998 became Chancellor of a unified Germany. It was Bill Gates in 1995 who said, “The power of the Internet has been exaggerated, and no one will ever make money on it.” Given the prestige that Bill Gates had when he said that, it’s safe to say that Microsoft didn’t make money on the Internet. Still, that judgment was harsh.
Since he makes so many predictions, it is not enough to attract people’s attention by his predictions alone, unless he becomes the equivalent of Thatcher, Schroeder, or Gates in his field of expertise. So, just as Rummenigge suddenly summoned Stich, a tennis player from another sport, he plots a twist.
Gaylord Perry played in the major leagues from 1962 to 1983 and won 314 victories. He was the first player to win the Cy Young Award in both the American and National Leagues. He was rightfully inducted into the Hall of Fame, but failed twice and only entered the third time. Considering his career wins and awards in both leagues, this is an unexpected result. Suspicions that had followed him throughout his career, that he pitched with saliva or foreign substances, caught his ankle. Aside from allegations of fraudulent pitching, he was known for his weak hitting. Many pitchers who had to bat before the DH system existed, but Gaylord Perry’s batting skills were among the best.
Manager Alvin Dark, who watched him hit for a year after he started his playing career at the San Francisco Giants, said this in 1963, the second year of Gaylord Perry’s playing career.
“They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”
As an expression of an impossible task, the expression that a person goes to the moon is very old. However, Alvin Dark’s prophecy becomes a reality within a few years. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 makes a historic moon landing. An hour after Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon, Gaylord Perry is said to have hit his first major league home run. Believe it or not.
Gaylord Perry (source MLB.com)
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