'Month of Footy' gets off to a great start!
June is my month of footy: The world cup takes place and I'm playing in two footy tournaments.
On Friday, the world cup started and I was heading down to Kobe for my first footy tournament of the month. I went in Ben's car and it took about six and half hours from Joetsu. At one of the stops on the way we managed to catch a bit of the opening ceremony: green pitch turning red, liederhosen with thigh-slapping, and perhaps most disturbingly, grown men humping large, gold bells! Maybe that's where all the blond hair comes from.
We were in the car when the first match started and Keiko sent me text updates when goals were scored, so six in all. Six goals in the first game? Could the World cup be that exciting?
Well, after we'd won the tournament during the day, we found a place in Kobe to see the England match in the evening. Before the match, we saw the highlights of the first days games. Every match looked really exciting; lots of great goals and every team giving their all into the game. Surely England could continue the trend? Well, for twenty minutes they did, then they lost their way LIKE THEY DO IN EVERY MATCH!! So annoying, but three points so a good results even if it was frustrating. We saw some of the Sweden v Trinidad Tobago too which was a great match too. Couldn't believe it ended goaless.
The other matches I've seen have been fantastic. I think this might be the most exciting World Cup I've seen. But with all this excitment, there has been some heartache. I went to Daboru last night to see the Japan vs Austrailia match. As I predicted (to anyone who asked), it was a tense game. Daboru was full of Japanese fans who cheered on their team all the way through the match. I really felt for them as Cahill break their hearts in the last eight minutes. Daboru was silent for a long time after the whistle, but the internal reflections passed and with a round of 'zan-nen' and 'shoganai', match analysis started and some optimism crept back into Daboru.
Here's hoping the World Cup can sustain it's bright start (unlike England did) and inspire Niigata ALT FC to a vitory in Nagano this weekend!
On Friday, the world cup started and I was heading down to Kobe for my first footy tournament of the month. I went in Ben's car and it took about six and half hours from Joetsu. At one of the stops on the way we managed to catch a bit of the opening ceremony: green pitch turning red, liederhosen with thigh-slapping, and perhaps most disturbingly, grown men humping large, gold bells! Maybe that's where all the blond hair comes from.
We were in the car when the first match started and Keiko sent me text updates when goals were scored, so six in all. Six goals in the first game? Could the World cup be that exciting?
Well, after we'd won the tournament during the day, we found a place in Kobe to see the England match in the evening. Before the match, we saw the highlights of the first days games. Every match looked really exciting; lots of great goals and every team giving their all into the game. Surely England could continue the trend? Well, for twenty minutes they did, then they lost their way LIKE THEY DO IN EVERY MATCH!! So annoying, but three points so a good results even if it was frustrating. We saw some of the Sweden v Trinidad Tobago too which was a great match too. Couldn't believe it ended goaless.
The other matches I've seen have been fantastic. I think this might be the most exciting World Cup I've seen. But with all this excitment, there has been some heartache. I went to Daboru last night to see the Japan vs Austrailia match. As I predicted (to anyone who asked), it was a tense game. Daboru was full of Japanese fans who cheered on their team all the way through the match. I really felt for them as Cahill break their hearts in the last eight minutes. Daboru was silent for a long time after the whistle, but the internal reflections passed and with a round of 'zan-nen' and 'shoganai', match analysis started and some optimism crept back into Daboru.
Here's hoping the World Cup can sustain it's bright start (unlike England did) and inspire Niigata ALT FC to a vitory in Nagano this weekend!
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