Well done to Holland for their crushing 3-2 defeat of Uruguay in a Semi-final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Africa. Although I would have preferred to have seen Ghana taking their rightful place in this game against the Netherlands; what goes round, come round. Uruguay simply weren’t good enough.
The downside of this result is that the cheating that occurred in the Quarter-finals will soon be forgotten. The Netherlands will now meet Germany or Spain in the Final, but the upside is that I don’t have watch the 3rd-4th place Play-off and therefore don't get to see the cheat again.
The Netherlands were Colonial masters in South Africa between 1652 and 1795, with the linguistic strength of the simplified Dutch spoken by migrant Dutch farmers leaving a legacy on the African Continent. Germany showed its Colonial Expansionism by acquiring South West Africa [Namibia], and German East Africa [Mainland Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Togo, and Cameroon]. There are examples of German atrocities regarding native Africans, but these are too extreme for me to replicate on a family website. I knew about the Holocaust and atrocities in Bosnia, and modern Rwanda, but I was not aware of turn of the 20th Century atrocities in Africa. When I finish reading my current set of academic and heroic books, I shall delve a bit deeper into that bit of dark history.
The last of the three World Cup nations was not intent on African Colonisation. Instead, Spain looked towards colonisation of the Americas. However Spain did hold Morocco until 1956, Guinea until 1968, and Spanish Sahara until 1975. The point being that the nation that has already secured a place in the Final of the 2010 World Cup and the two nations that are now left to contend the last remaining place; all held colonies in Africa.
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