Unfortunately the much anticipated win by Croatia was not forthcoming, just very unlucky for Croatia so well balance a team had to bounce out early because of a last minutes draw with Turkey and finally got kick out because of penalty kick. It was a day that will be remember long by Croatian in Euro football cup history as a day of tragedy for a rising talent football country from Europe.

Likewise for the astonishing exit of Holland well must be heartbreaking for many heavy betting and fans of total football. The Holland was not playing as fast and as much lethal attacking which it used to in the qualifying round, maybe they have too much confidence and partly they could have been having fun over the 1 week that the players could not move out of that merry mood and so they lost to a hungry young Russian footballer frank by the great holland legendary coach now who have transformed many countries to qualify to semi-final in international tournaments like those from Seoul, Australia etc.

The semi-final match between Germany and Turkey will be heavily betted on German to win as the Turks already have so many first line players out from this match so logically it will be German to be favour to win, however if Turks can hold up till penalty kick they may stand a chance, who know Turks may be the big surprise again.

Between Spain and Russia match, certainly Spain are lot more in favour as they will want to make history to make itself into final. Likewise the Russian is not going to be a easy walkover with the master tactician Holland coach. Russian could win with speed and surprise attack, however Spain lack the lethal attack though they make up with the many star players skill in dribbling.

It will be exciting if Russia and Turkish both make it to the Final, it certainly will be Euro cup soccer history and jaw drop again for many fans in this Euro cup betting.

So which 4 teams are likely to make it to the Euro Cup 2008 semi-final showdown ?

1) Between 2 enciting fast attack and defend team Holland and Russia, chances Holland will still win in that as a whole Holland team individual players are more skill and they work togethe in great union passing ball fast for fast attack rather than flashy dribbling unlike Portugese players which eventually kill itself against Germany.

2)  Between Spain and Italy chances spain are much better team as a whole,  as for lucky Italy the team still seem lethargy, unless the team make it to semi-final it may still be drowsy.

3) Turkey is unlikely to beat Croatia in that Turkey attack is not that convincing, they marginally proceed to quarter final with many players injured. As a team they lack the strategy to win convincingly from the start. 

4)  Germany or Croatia in semi-final? Croatia if make it to compete with Germany, it will stand a good chance in that they beat Germany before during the 1st round match and during the previous Euro cup. A re-match will certainly see Germany for revenge, whether Gemany make it will depend on the 2  players (Poland kid and the white hair kid)given much spacs to counter-strike Croatia attack. If German can withstand onslaught to penalty kick they may stand a good chance.

6) If Holland is to compete with Spain chances Holland will need to dominate the mid field and not to give too much space for Spain strikers. On the other hand once Spain cannot have a early win it will shake the team confidence and energy to win. That’s what happen to Spain, they can’t finish the end if they were to be stucked in a tightly mark middle field.

7) It certainly will be enciting to see final match between Holland and Croatia. Why not Clash of the titan between Holland and Germany? The match will not be as enciting, as Germany is likely to depend on heading to score or penalty kick to seal the final victory, the match will be tightly mark player for player which make the match slow moving.

Though Greece did not surprise anybody by proceeding to the next round like the previous Euro cup but the match with Russia was entertaining. Both team were playing fast attack and defend, few matches really were entertaining like this match,  Russia was playing like Holland with it’s fast attack and defend, this effectively was a better style suitable for Russia than the previous Euro cup where Russia play it slow and steady.

So when Holland vs Russia we are going to see yet another entertaining game, which will be enciting in that both team are Dutch coach who like to use the fast attack and defend by the entire team so call Total Football. The games will be less dribbling by individual players but more fast passes and team formations stikes and defend, defend and attack within.

Going by the book which team is favourable? Holland will still be more favourable because overall they have more skill attackers and any of their mid fielders or defenders can equally be as lethal. As a whole the entire team look balance and there is great confidence within and chances as Holland may proceed to final if they do not end up draw and decide by penalty kick which if happen their chances will be greatly reduce.

It’s time companies and governments around the globe should urge to reduce overtime working, so as to save energy spend for lighting, air-con, electricity power for office equipments. That few hours of extra working over-time which usually may not be critical can actually save energy and save cost for many corporations and countries energy consumption. Plus if all the night comercial leon advertising display lights can be turn off let says after 10pm instead of till next morning 6am it really can be more eco friendly and healthier living for the environment.

Talking about eco friendly, one of the more effective way is actually to reduce cars, motorcycles exhaust smoke, fumes output in the open air. Instead of letting car exhaust fumes emit out from the car, why not let the exhaust fumes pipe go back into an air-tight box at the back of the car, this box can actually have some kind of foam sponge or filter to absorb the car exhaust fume that will effective reduce the smokes in the open area and thus bring down the temperature and more eco friendly. Car owner can go to petrol kiosk to dump this waste or to dump to re-cycle company to transform out as fertilizer or other re-cycle products.

Any company who have this idea will make billion of money creating such products and by selling this patent to create the fume exhaust absorption filtering box for car, for train, and may eventually for airplane, not only makes big bucks but also help reduce heat and more clean air in the world. You calculate the million of cars, motor-cycles, ships, airplanes around the worlds you know how much smokes have deteriorate the clean air quality and increase the temperature around the world.

Within a few months we have heard many earthquakes from Sichuan earthquake to sumatra earthquake, Iceland earthquake, Japan earthquake all within a short period of less than 3 months, we have seen big flood in Europe, China, cyclone in Myyamar, tornado  and flood in US. What’s more there to come ?

125 china snow storm, 314 Tibet unrest, 512 Sichuan earthquake, all date total equal number 8 and occur 2 months apart, are we to predict 2 month from 512, 701 could set the stage for another major disaster in China or anyway in the world ? Let hope there ’s no problem, but the many earthquakes and floods this year may already be a alarms that earthquake destruction cannot just limit to quake zone area but the impact of the underlining quake destruction can travel wide distance as far as distance from Sichuan to Beijing, the tremor can be felt. Countries with many high scrapers are not built for earthquake resilient, it’s time developers and government body to consider this area when building new buildings for schools, commercial office, home living, etc anywhere in the world.

Flooding threat is also another concern as water levels are increasing moving up around the globe, well water beneath the earth are continuosly heavily consumed for commercial and living in highly modernise city, this add pressure to the sinking land around the globe.

Guess which Euro cup countries make the biggest headlines ?

The early exit of Italy, France ?

The all women soccer match where Austria beat Germany 10-5 in the most unexpected jersy. It definitely catch fever all over the world once this hot jersy ladies start to run after the ball whether on beaches or grass stadium, when the games set to become the officially competitive games in Euro women painted jersy cup or even better Women world cup painted jersy soccer.

It may becomes the stage to liberate women equal freedom right in dressing and to feel normal like men going topless in sports like swimming, jogging etc. Certainly there is a money making markets for women in sexy dress outfit like those for Tennis, swim wear, fashion design. When women get to have right to go topless in sports or normal daily living like men do, the cultures in the world will be a new stage transformation for the modern women to come.

Highlight of the Women Euro cup 2008 special

Finally the long awaited victory win by Obama to secure a seat for the US presidential election. As one watch we almost can convincingly see the Obama oratorical confident and the energy he punch forward, we are not seeing this from McCain who is already quite old at 70s, one wonder how much can he offer, he is likely to be only a puppet on the front, but behind the party will be the one pushing for the real agenda. As a war veteran, don’t think he can come out with any briliant idea to reform US stagnant economy.

There are more confident towards Obama but to be the good traditional president, he still have to be impartial towards middle east peace engagement. Impartial and fair treatment towards middle east conflict will see a new light for more years of peace for a declining US foreign policy engagement in the world. Instead of focusing on foreign military might, the focus should be towards economy re-structuring and building, cutting down on arms deal and disengaging in international unsupported war involvement, fair and friendly international trade engagement with developing nations whether big , small or poor nations, will certainly bring the economy eventually back to shape.

What happen when Euro cup start, we are seeing more men taking off to watch the long awaited Euro cup soccer 2008. What’s going to happen in the World ?

The tumbling US market, it will soon pick up again, it’s time for the world to take time off to watch their favourites soccer game, time off to have a break, time off to play a different betting games. It’s only once in few years, so the inflation fear, high crude oil prices, high food prices, it’s going to be put aside first, it’s going to be lower volume market for month but nevertheless others will pick it up when their men are sticking to the TV set.

The clash of the titan between Holland and Italy must have amazed many soccer fans who rally behind Italy who have not been beaten by Holland for so many years, how could this have happen ?

We have seen good coordination from Holland and from a start Italy seem impenetrable but how could the wall came tumbling down? What’s style of playing is Holland adopting ? They are still using their all fast attack and defend style but with a twist. The coach have combined Ruby playing style as the ultimate strategy, that is, the player will run forward, passing ball backward and forward, passing left and right within the backward and forward ball control just like Ruby playing style, when the ball is passed between player fast and accurate with less flashy display by individual players it make the team very fast and efficient that what’s the Holland is displaying a trashing to Italy which could have been more than 3 goals if not for the few near miss. We may see more of this style of playing from other Euro countries combining the Ruby style of attacking to more effectively progress their team in the tough games ahead.