The Letter D 1 (Forlan 51) The Letter V 0The D Team: Diego Godin, Dennis Aogo, Diego Lugano, Diego Perez, Nigel De Jong, Dirk Kuyt, Diego Forlan.
The Letter D lifted The Alphabet World Cup after a narrow victory over The Letter V. The dangerous strike partnership of Robin Van Persie and the traitorous David Villa was predicted to be too much for the D defence, but it proved not to be the case. It was thought that V would be for victory after 90 minutes, but the V team's tactics meant that violence was a more appropriate word for the brutal manner in which the likes of Van Der Wiel, Van Bronckhorst, Van Bommel and Van Persie conducted themselves - they all found themselves in the referee's notebook for naughtiness.
The first half was a full of crunching challenges mainly inflicted on the D team while they attempted to play their beautiful brand of total football. They weren't entirely innocent though, with Dennis Aogo crunching Van Persie's leg after just four minutes and Nigel De Jong karate-kicking Rafael Van Der Vaart in the chest, both offences worthy of red cards.
It was early in the second half that The Letter D broke the deadlock when Diego Perez cut the ball back from the byline to Diego Forlan whose volley bounced into the top corner.
The Letter V were struggling to make chances, but did come close when a defensive error gifted David Villa the ball at his feet just four feet from goal, but a despairing lunge by World Cup debutant Aogo diverted the ball up and over the bar.
It was in fact The Letter D that came closest to adding to their solitary goal when Forlan bent a freekick against the crossbar deep into injury time. The final whistle brought delirious delight to The D team and their traveling fans, nicknamed dans because a lot of them bear that name. Sadly, the Alphabet World Cup has received little media interest with a handful of people following its progress because they don't have a great deal to do with their time. The ABC division of FIFA are hoping that interest will increase when the World Cup reaches Brazil in 2014.
Stepping outside of the sports journalist role for a moment, I am well pleased that my following of The Letter D through this World Cup led to them actually being the greatest footballing letter. I'll leave football bloggeration alone for a while now and concentrate on other things beginning with the letter D because I fear that I have thoroughly bored people with my odd obsession with meaningless football trivia.
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