Lello wrote:oh fuck it I will do it now!!
Introduction:
(day/month/year btw below not the opposite)
7/2/2011: Lebanon 0-6 Kuwait (Friendly Game)
17/7/2011: UAE 6-2 Lebanon (Friendly Game)
now, who do we get drawn against in the third round qualifiers? KUWAIT ^^, UAE ^^ AND South Korea...
First game in the qualifiers:
2/9/2011: South Korea 6-0 Lebanon
now what is the conclusion after that? Lebanon is gonna be a walk in the park for everyone in the group
then comes this date: 6/9/2011 (4 days after S.Korea thrashed us), a confident UAE side came to Lebanon expected to pick up easy 3 points in Lebanon and go home with a big smile on their faces...
That starts off as expected as UAE gets an early goal and expected to cruise through the rest of the game, then what happens? WE SCORE 3!! and win the game 3-1
Everyone said it was a fluke that will never happen again, and then, on 11/10/2011, came Kuwait to Lebanon, also full of confidence and think they will win with ease. Until Lebanon were up 2-1 almost all game long, and they got an equalizer in the 93rd minute from a lucky own goal...
What do Kuwaitis say? It's luck, a fluke, and this sort of result won't happen again, insisting they will score 4 or 5 against us when we visit Kuwait.
11/11/2011 (<-- cool date :P) comes, and Lebanese players are in Kuwait, the first 6 minutes, our 2 CBs gets injured (one of them former captain of FC Koln in Lebanon), and Hassan Maatouk (our star player), gets booked for a dive (which was a clear penalty) and will miss the south korea game, and we still went on to score a goal and keep a clean sheet
now Kuwaiti people talk about luck again, and how we will be demolished by Korea and our run of luck has come to an end.
And today comes South Korea, I'm gonna give a brief history bout Lebanon vs South Korea before I enter today's game's details:
In 2004 (2 years after Korea was 4th in the world cup, and in the qualifications for the 2006 world cup), we were in need of a win to qualify to the next round of the qualifiers and on 13th november 2004 (today is 15th november btw), Koreans came to Lebanon, and we drew 1-1.
Back to today, no one (AND I MEAN NO ONE!! NOT EVEN ME) expected Lebanon to get anything out of the game. In a stadium packed 50 000 fans, screaming our lungs out, it even rained!! we were without or 2 starting CBs (who were still injured), and without our star player unjustly booked in the previous game, and we scored the first goal in the 4th minute!! HOLY SHIT!!! MY THROAT STILL HURTS!!
The ref gave an unjust penalty to Korea and they levelled the score, but, we were not satisfied to go into half time on level terms, but we get a penalty of our own (a legit one), and we score it and went on to hold on to the lead and earn a historic win against a team we never dreamt of ever beating.
3 teams that beat us with 6 goals scored, are now suffering from us!! Lebanese football seemed dead from 2005-2010, we were everyteam's wish to face, they could put their third team and we still would've lost, but now every team has to take precautions before facing us, whether it's home or away!!
THE ATMOSPHERE WAS AMAZING!! BREATH TAKING!! Singing during the 90 mins (before the game and after it also), the president was there, every player is gonna get a 6000$ bonus now (trust me, that's alot for footballers here to get) and the country has united for the first time in a whie, Lebanese people could find a way to step aside their differences and stay behind the team all the way.
I leave you with some photos of the historic event:(that's Reda Antar (former Hamburg, Koln player, next to Lebanese President)
(A FUCKING GENIUS!! Theo Bucker!!)
This is what football is all about! Imagine if the England players actually stopped being overpaid prima donnas and fought for their country. I hate international football because of England.
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