When one looks at the 2010 FIFA world cup or any of the previous 18 world cups; the one thing that resonates from 1930 in Montevideo to 2010 in Johannesburg is not only goals but belief. The world cup is a tournament based on dreams. Be it winning the Jules Rimet trophy or reaching a certain phase each team has a dream for the world cup.
The world cup journey begins at the qualification stage and that is where the dreams start to get formulated. All 200 plus teams that participated in the qualification for the 2010 world cup had dreams, many dreamed of making the finals and a few dreamed of lifting the trophy on the 11 of july. As the games are played some dreams get accomplished but others get shattered like the Irish in paris or the Egyptians in Sudan. In the end there apart from being good enough or moments of madness, the difference between the teams that qualified for this world cup and the other 18 is that they believed in the dream.
Believing in the dream of making the Finals is the driving force of any teams journey to the finals. The 32 teams that made it to the 19th FIFA world cup their dreams became realities and they needed to have new dreams and that’s the important thing. To win the world cup or for the dream to be a sweet one the entire team must believe in the dream. If you don’t believe, you will go know where.
When a team believes it is the most wonderful sight as that team gives all they have and accomplishes the dream they set out to achieve. The moment one stops believing is when everything starts to go wrong. This can be seen in this tournament with the hosts South Africa. In the words of their captain they failed to believe in their second game against Uruguay and that’s when an entire nations dream ended. Although they managed to beat the French that fateful night in Tshwane summed up their tournament and underlined a big thing about dreams and the world cup. One can’t at any moment fail to believe.
Teams that win World cups believe throughout the whole tournament even when times are tough. In those times the character of teams comes to the surface. When times are tough two questions are asked. Will you give up and throw in the towel effectively ending your dream or will you fight till the death and make sure that when you do not succeed you gave it your all? The latter is what makes world cup winners that never say die attitude, the attitude of champions who know that they will give all they have, sometime even sacrifice themselves just to keep the dream alive. We have seen this attitude many times over in World cups. There is a story of the semi-final of the 1982 world cup held in spain where france played germany and in extra time the French scored twice to lead 3-1 but the germans turned what seemed the end for the into a winning situation but managing to equalize and win on penalties. That shows that the germans refused to give up on their dream and showed their famous geist.
The 19th FIFA world cup will be won by the team that believes in their dream more than all the other teams in that tournament, a team that will fight for their dreams and in the face of the impossible; be inspired. The team that BELIEVES will have a very sweet dream.
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