{"id":783,"date":"2010-07-07T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2010-07-07T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:31:38","slug":"maybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2010\/07\/07\/maybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe we should spell it f\u00fatbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"World Cup\" rel=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/02\/maybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol\/\" href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/02\/maybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/copa-del-mundo.jpg?w=156&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>THIS might be football\u2019s first African <a title=\"FIFA World Cup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/matches\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>, but we can\u2019t help noticing that it\u2019s also a very Spanish-speaking affair. South America has always been well represented at the <em>Mundial<\/em>, of course, and we\u2019re not just talking about Portuguese-speaking Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The difference this time is the way the so-called lesser teams from Latin America have so thoroughly outperformed the European \u2018powers\u2019 such as England, France and Italy. Oh, and Spain actually have a good chance of finally winning the World Cup for the first time to add to their European championship.<\/p>\n<p>Paraguay and Uruguay \u2013 whose population combined is only slightly bigger than London\u2019s \u2013 have both surprised the experts in reaching the quarter-finals alongside Spain and Argentina. Mexico and Chile did well too, and no doubt consider themselves unfortunate to have been paired with favourites Argentina and Brazil at the first knock-out stage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Maybe we should spell it f\u00fatbol\" href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/02\/maybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230; LondonSpanish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F07%2Fmaybe-we-should-spell-it-futbol%2F&amp;linkname=Maybe%20we%20should%20spell%20it%20f%C3%BAtbol\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_256_24.png\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS might be football\u2019s first African World Cup, but we can\u2019t help noticing that it\u2019s also a very Spanish-speaking affair. South America has always been well represented at the Mundial, of course, and we\u2019re not just talking about Portuguese-speaking Brazil. The difference this time is the way the so-called lesser teams from Latin America have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,61],"tags":[144,188,204],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}