World Cup Fever

Wednesday, June 5th, 2002

YES! USA 3 - Portugal 2! And the United States had to score one of Portugal’s goals for them! Even the BBC commentators had to admit that it wasn’t just a fluke - the USA played a genuinely excellent game (well, except for that own goal). We rule! We’re number one! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Yes, as is usual during things like the Olympics and the World Cup, I have a sudden interest in sports and a renewed pride in the country of my birth - and so I find myself sitting in my pajamas and shouting at the television at 10:30 in the morning when I really should be working. Ah well, it’s only once every four years, and it’s not every day that the United States does something amazing in "football".

Well, gotta go - the kick-off for the Ireland-Germany game is starting in the next few minutes, and Ireland probably needs all the long-distance moral support it can get. It doesn’t look like I’m going to get much work done today after all…

Comments

1

Thank you for calling it football! Go on, I dare you, go all the way and lose the inverted commas! :)

But I’m definitely with you about those two games. Do they realise back in the US how monumental that win over Portugal was? Portugal are (or were !) 5th in the world, and as you say, the win was no fluke. This team are so much better than the Americans of four years ago.

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The World Cup is - how shall we say - very, *very* low on the list of American sporting priorities, I’m afraid. I think the NBA finals are on right now (basketball) and the Stanley Cup as well (hockey) - and the only football Americans are generally interested in is "American" football (or American "football"? :-) So no, I don’t think very many people in the States realize how impressive a win that was, which is really a pity.

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