When Germany's Mario Goetze scored an amazing goal against Argentina he just looked at the clock and smiled under his breath. Seven more minutes left for the long whistle to blow - to declare the winner of the 2014 Fifa World Cup, thus proving the last in a series of his predictions become correct once again. And exactly that did happen.
"I don't really call it prediction, it is rather observation on the teams and players that made me reach such a conclusion that the final will be between Germany and Argentina and the former will lift the cup," renowned writer N S Madhavan, who even wrote a short story on Rene Higuita, the goalkeeper for Colombia in 1990, told TOI.
In this World Cup this was not his first prediction.
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"I don't really call it prediction, it is rather observation on the teams and players that made me reach such a conclusion that the final will be between Germany and Argentina and the former will lift the cup," renowned writer N S Madhavan, who even wrote a short story on Rene Higuita, the goalkeeper for Colombia in 1990, told TOI.
In this World Cup this was not his first prediction.
Read more
