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Popworldcupjustice: Uruguay vs Costa Rica

  • June 14, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

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URUGUAY V COSTA RICA

Guest referee:
Fryars — Singer

Uruguay32 Jorge Drexler — ‘Uruguay nomas’

“'Horriblemente lenta' according to one punter, this is a pretty mel­an­choly World Cup song. And for a side spear­headed by Luis Suarez it more than lacks a little bite. Jorge predicts that Uruguay will 'steal a kiss at the Maracana' over a Nando's‑lite instru­mental so non­chal­ant that it comes off sounding smug. I did however back 'La Celeste' at 28/1 with SkyBet, so I hope he's right. Towards the end of the track his children join in on the chorus, which is nice. The writer performer Jorge Drexler has won an Oscar and is also an ENT doctor. So he's basically a great guy. In fact, it's a rather sweet song and par­tic­u­larly poetic for a football song.”

Costa-rica32 Gandhi — ‘Ciclos’

“This moves between sounding like Toploader, Santana and a little bit of Nickleback, but it's a suf­fi­ciently watered down version of all those things to just be super non­des­cript Latin pop music. A while ago I had dinner with a Multi-Latin-Grammy award winning artist but had no idea at the time. I checked out the dis­co­graphy after our wine and meatballs and I was aston­ished that this stuff could sell by the million. In the video for 'Ciclos', the band are imper­son­at­ing scientists/vets/doctors, which seems to be the final nail in the coffin as the Uruguayan guy is actually a real doctor."

Fryars' full time score:

Uruguay 2 — Costa Rica 0

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