Announcer's Calls During Ronaldo Goals Are Pure World Cup Joy

The national soccer teams of Portugal and Sweden faced off in a do-or-die World Cup qualifying match on Tuesday night. The match pitted two of the biggest stars in soccer — Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimović — against one another with stakes of the highest magnitude. The winning squad's prize: a ticket to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which the losing side would have to watch from home

Ronaldo scored three goals to push Portugal through to a win and a berth in Brazil. The goals themselves were incredible, but Portuguese TV radio announcer Nuno Matos' calls of them may have been even better. The pure, unadulterated, frenzied, hysterical joy in Matos' calls shows why the World Cup is the most magical event in sports Read more...