It’s time for La Furia Roja to get into the World Cup act and Luke is here to bring you all the action in an amazing, scintillating, and ever-so-intelligent liveblog. Señores Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique, Villa, and chamaquito Busi are all expected to play a role.

Brasil vs North Korea. Whoa. Never thought I’d see that. But here we are. Launching just prior to kickoff, it’s me with the livebloggage today.
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‘Where the deuce do you think you’re going?’ said Athos.

‘It’s the fellow himself’, cried d’Artagnan, pale and trembling with rage. ‘Let me get at him!’

‘What fellow?’ asked Athos.

‘That blackguard, my evil genius. I always meet him when there’s trouble brewing [...] I recognized him when the wind blew his hat up. It was him all right!’

– Dumas, Alexander. The Three Musketeers [1844]. Trans. Sudley. New York: Penguin, 653.

Come now, SoMa! Do we really need to talk about those guys right now? Just tell us what El Guaje means in iambic pentameter and let us go liveblog our Cup games in peace.

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The defending champions are back. And Luke is here with a liveblog. LOVE US because we deliver the goods. Join us after the jump.

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It is I, Luke. Still guiding you through all this slog. Today’s review is brought to you by horrifically low-scoring affairs (except in Germany, where it is being produced by sheer, utter, annihilation). Anyway, let’s get to the recaps, what the games mean, and what all of you think. Also, please don’t forget to check out Isaiah’s post about the Barcelona presidential elections.

D'oh!

Today, June 13, 2010, Alexandre “Sandro” Rosell i Feliu was elected as FC Barcelona’s 39th president by an overwhelming margin. 35,021 socis cast their vote for him (22,067 cast votes for someone else or no one) and a record 57,088 (or 48.11% of the total membership) voted overall.

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It’s Alergia – Slovenia, Germany – Australia, and Serbia – Ghana. As per usual, I’m wearing a jersey (Germany) and rooting for their opponents. Just realized I have two Australia jerseys and so will be wearing the yellow one for today. Ah, the beauty of a large jersey collection…Yesterday’s draw between the USA and England was a big deal and I’m happily recovering from post-draw celebrating.

It’s also Barça Election Day, which I’ll be keeping tabs. Polls close at 9pm local time (3pm EST) and hopefully we’ll learn the winner today.

This is your Day 2 comments post. We’ve got some sweet games on tap. South Korea – Greece, Argentina – Nigeria, and USA! USA! USA! vs England. May the wonderful football rain down on us today!

Welcome to the first of what should be many liveblogs throughout the World Cup. Today it’s France (Henry, Abidal) vs Uruguay (Caceres, Suarez). Yay, a battle of people we own and people we used to own and could own. Yay. Also, Monsieur Kxevin is a big Les Bleus fan, so maybe he’ll grace us with his presence and freak us all out with his passion.

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It is time. It is now. South Africa – Mexico. The beginning of the best month of the the year, the beginning of the first World Cup in Africa. I’m headed to Puma City for the opener, which will be a blast, so put aside your soapboxes for a moment, folks, and let’s hear a hearty cheer for the Beautiful Game. I’m sporting El Tri’s jersey and rooting for South Africa. That is what the World Cup is all about.

Hip-hip-HOORAY!