LONDON - A new star was born in Stuttgart, Germany with wins in Brazil for the first time in nearly two decades
A Japanese national team player who died much too young to remember every goal scored against Japan in South Korea in Sapporo.
A new era opens in Philadelphia, where Juergen Klinsmann started working as head coach of the United States with a 1-1 draw against the Mexican team to win the Americans heavily a few weeks ago.
All of these games, and much, much more throughout the world, will be played on Wednesday. The sport can be enjoyed everywhere, it seems, except in England, where soccer began to organize.
His Wembley National Stadium in London, was closed and empty Wednesday. England had been scheduled to meet in the Netherlands it. The teams were ready, the fans bought their tickets, but rightly, that the police canceled the game. Premier League game against Everton Tottenham, scheduled for Saturday has been canceled due to Tottenham, where the riots began, is still a crime scene under police investigation. The other nine matches will be played.
London where the Olympics are scheduled for next year, had suddenly become a rash of capital in violence, arson and looting by its own citizens, and too dangerous a place to host a friendly sports equipment.
This contrasts with the Stuttgart, where the home crowd ended the night crooner capacity "How Sweet It Is" for your computer, which was playing better than Brazil in all aspects of the sport.
Movement, thought, where appropriate, the Germans were better than the score, 3-2 suggests. Brazil's excuse is that the re-construction, is turning a new generation that has only one thing in mind: the World Cup will be hosted in 2014.
And 'true enough. Brazil does not need to get your tournament, and it has three years to help the team back on home soil, his mantle as a nation of football's most beautiful and successful in the world.
On Wednesday, the only way to tell a Brazilian was a German by the color of their shirts. Yes, Brazil is the famous yellow shirts. Yes, Neymar is announced as the next Pele, Garrincha next, the next idol of his country.
Well, opportunistic Neymar scored right at the end of Stuttgart.
But then, white team was out of sight. Then, Mario Götze and Andre Schürrle - a former teenager, and the second in 20 years - was placed in an excellent target in Germany.
Götze, in particular, fell short. It was his first game of the Mannschaft, the senior team in Germany. He was received, most observers thought ridiculous, by none other than the football player of the most famous in Germany, Beckenbauer, Franz, "the German Messi".
If young people feel overwhelmed by the fact that it does not show. Just five minutes, the young playmaker Dortmund took the ball on his white shirt. It seemed great players do, to his own time. It became cluttered with Brazilian Andre Santos, but the defender has been distorted by Götze changed feet.
With a bit of her right foot lifted the ball up Götze. With his left hand he shot and only a diving save from goalkeeper Julio Cesar prevented a beginner's first goal.
Give a man time and he gives himself. In the middle of the second half, received a quick pass from Thomas Müller, the almost veteran, almost 21 years, the national team regular.
In fact, Götze not go because he was already in motion, find a discrepancy between the central defenders of Brazil and tore into it with hope and anticipation.
He got the ball first Cesar and rolled it over the goalkeeper is perfect, almost arrogant composure.
Brazil gives the impression that the magic comes three years down the line. Germany rested Mesut Özil and Sami Khedira because they had a long summer tour with their clubs, Real Madrid - and the boys gave them a chance to shine.
"I'm happy," said Joachim Löw, the coach, who was insured before the game that his stay in Brazil to continue building the German team will run until 2014. "I have so many possibilities in terms of players.
"Mario Götze is an exceptional feeling of positioning for the fact that, even if it is in a corner, you will find a solution."
Loew was Klinsmann when he was assistant head coach in Germany through the 2006 World Cup. And in collaboration with the Director General Bierhoff, Oliver, who opened the minds of the Germans to a new freer style, playing more expressive.
Klinsmann changed or returned home now approved in the United States.
He probably has a much larger role in finding new players for the U.S. to make their own distinctive style.
Not surprisingly, he chose his own young players to give away his age. Brek Shea, 21, FC Dallas left wing, has helped change the game on Wednesday, when he entered the 60 th minute with a goal in Mexico, and walking.
Shea created and Robbie Rogers scored the equalizer. But the names that the points where Klinsmann for two weeks after its mandate include Kyle Beckerman and Latino players - Edgar Castillo, Jose Torres and Michael Orozco Fiscal.
"We're starting a new beginning," said Klinsmann. "We'll see where it leads."
A new beginning, and Japan, a sad end.
"Japanese men are strong, too," reads the title Nikkanen sports daily in the morning, after Japan win Asian rivals South Korea 3-0.
Japanese women won the World Cup in Germany this summer. Now, with two goals from Shinji Kagawa Keisuke Honda and one of the men who had shown their quality, too.
The match against South Korea was an important step towards the host to play football after the disaster of 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
"South Korea seemed heavy legs," said Kagawa, a boy of 22 years, Borussia Dortmund midfielder who has just returned after breaking the bone in his foot in January.
"When we passed the ball, created the space," said Kagawa. "When we moved, we pursue."
Japan started the game looking distracted. How to play when the reconstruction of homes and thousands of people have one more thing. How to play when a dear friend, Naoki Matsuda had died just a week ago, he suffered a heart attack during training is very different.
After each goal, the players looked up and pointed his finger. These objectives, Naoki, in memory of you.
