an endorsement
The World Cup starts on 9 June. This year, the games will happen during Seattle's morning (instead of 2002's wee hours of the night). To get in the appropriate frame of mind, I started reading the Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup on Monday. So far, it's really excellent -- short essays from thirty two writers about each of the countries in this year's event plus lots of facts, figures, and odds.
I'm still deciding which team I want to win. When I was scouring the shops of Amsterdam for a Netherlands t-shirt, I had no idea that their team had such relatively decent odds (10-1, vs. the U.S.'s 100-1) of taking the whole thing. Somehow wanting the U.S. to win doesn't seem incredibly nationalistic, does it?
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It seems that I only really like sports when the possibility of elimination is imminent.
I'm still deciding which team I want to win. When I was scouring the shops of Amsterdam for a Netherlands t-shirt, I had no idea that their team had such relatively decent odds (10-1, vs. the U.S.'s 100-1) of taking the whole thing. Somehow wanting the U.S. to win doesn't seem incredibly nationalistic, does it?
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It seems that I only really like sports when the possibility of elimination is imminent.
My boyfriend is pretty much the largest soccer fan on the planet and is off to the World Cup in the summer - my friend thought of me when she ran into this country's marketing campaign in response to soccer crazy boyfriends and husbands: http://www.myswitzerland.com/fr/movies/wm/