Football!!!
Where was I at 2:30 this morning? Joh and I were at the office. The U.S. national soccer team played Spain, the best team in the world, in the semifinals for the Confederations Cup, which is a warm-up tournament for the World Cup.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. got creamed against Brazil and Italy earlier in the tournament, then ran over Egypt to miraculously advance to the second round. I wrote an article about it here. Good news to advance, bad news to have to play Spain, who was unbeaten in their last 35 international games.
Well, they didn't make it to 36.
Did you watch the game? Please tell me you did. It was inspirational. The best soccer game I ever watched. The United States played like the 1980 U.S. Hockey team. They never looked intimidated and they never stopped hustling. Tim Howard was amazing in the goal, the defense played well, the offense took advantage of their opportunities. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful 2-0 victory for the red, white and blue. I wrote an article about the game here.
Anyway, Joh and I were already pretty wiped all day yesterday because of the Transformers movie. We ate dinner right after work, then went home and went to bed at about 7. I woke up at about 1 a.m., woke Joh up at 2 and we headed off to the office, since we don’t get the sports channel in our apartment.
We rolled up to our floor in the building and there was a guard or maintenance guy or something sleeping in the lobby. When we turned on the TV, he came out and kinda watched with us for a second, then asked Joh to turn it down. We had to contain ourselves as the U.S. held on to the win even though the Spanish kept getting opportunities to score. It was totally worth missing out on sleep for.
This time, when we went home, the sun was up. I hate having to go to work on so little sleep, especially as I notice all the errors in the article I wrote about the game, but I guess that’s the price of being a fan…
If you haven’t been paying attention, the U.S. got creamed against Brazil and Italy earlier in the tournament, then ran over Egypt to miraculously advance to the second round. I wrote an article about it here. Good news to advance, bad news to have to play Spain, who was unbeaten in their last 35 international games.
Well, they didn't make it to 36.
Did you watch the game? Please tell me you did. It was inspirational. The best soccer game I ever watched. The United States played like the 1980 U.S. Hockey team. They never looked intimidated and they never stopped hustling. Tim Howard was amazing in the goal, the defense played well, the offense took advantage of their opportunities. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful 2-0 victory for the red, white and blue. I wrote an article about the game here.
Anyway, Joh and I were already pretty wiped all day yesterday because of the Transformers movie. We ate dinner right after work, then went home and went to bed at about 7. I woke up at about 1 a.m., woke Joh up at 2 and we headed off to the office, since we don’t get the sports channel in our apartment.
We rolled up to our floor in the building and there was a guard or maintenance guy or something sleeping in the lobby. When we turned on the TV, he came out and kinda watched with us for a second, then asked Joh to turn it down. We had to contain ourselves as the U.S. held on to the win even though the Spanish kept getting opportunities to score. It was totally worth missing out on sleep for.
This time, when we went home, the sun was up. I hate having to go to work on so little sleep, especially as I notice all the errors in the article I wrote about the game, but I guess that’s the price of being a fan…
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