Dirk Kuyt: World Cup Winner?!
It just doesn’t sound right, does it? Dirk Kuyt has got no pace, no moves, no finesse, no killer instinct for goal. Yet come Sunday the choppy Dutch winger could find his name being sung from Groningen to Roosendaal.
If such a scenario comes to pass, it would perfectly sum up a World Cup in which multi-million marketing machines like Rooney, Ronaldo, Eto’o, Ribery and Torres have sputtered and faltered. So much money and so much expectation was heaped on their shoulders – but just try to come up with a good highlight reel between the lot of them.
In their absence the “little guy” has thrived. Dirk Kuyt, Mesut Ozil, Luis Suarez, Asamoah Gyan, Keisuke Honda. They are not exactly names that will get the pulses racing. But they’ve upended one of the commonly-held perceptions about the World Cup: This is in fact a tournament where team play, not individual performance, makes all the difference. It’s an opportunity for the unsung heroes to get their day in the sun. It’s a place where flashy cars, sponsorship deals and model girlfriends and all the trappings of a Ballon d’Or winner count for nought.
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