Futbol/Soccer

I am going to share a little bit about this sport to all our USA friends....I know you all get Football...but really....it does not compare to the World Cup. We are talking about "the whole world is watching this" kind of sport. So I suggest the rest of the Americans need to get on board. The World Cup is about millions of people coming together and feeling the buzz of nerves right before a game begins. Its about each time they play the participating countries anthem you feel a choking in your throat for that country. I guess its almost like the olympics...but better. Its the one sport all the countries in the world have in common.

I have been watching the World Cup since I was a child. I grew up in a family where all my 4 brothers played in a Soccer league. They played for team "Guatemala". We would go every Sunday after church to watch them play at Memorial Park. Then I met and fell in love with a man that played Soccer all his life and we continued our love for the sport all these years. We have never missed watching the "World Cup". It completely takes over our life during this time. Its one month of intense futbol matches....Its really billions of people watching it.

I found a new book that has been written..."what the World Cup means to me" its 21 stories of top soccer writers, analysts and bloggers from around the world. The World Cup is a magical time when billions of soccer fans around the world come together for the biggest sports tournament on earth. I love the writing of one fan and BBC Analyst Tim Vickery:

"It means being nine years old and arguing over at the park about who was going to be Valdomiro or Sparswasser. It means knowing how to spell Czechoslovakia because they'd reached two finals. It means meeting someone called Popescu and knowing that she was of Romanian origin. It means being a council estate kid who had never got further than the Isle of Wight, but who still knew that he was part of the big, wide world"

For me, I remember players like Pele, Maradona, Vava, Garrincha, Eusebio heros to this day...
I's so glad to see them still during this World Cup. Pele is in the stands and Maradona is the coach for Argentina....

Another person wrote:

In America, the touchstones for "Where were you when" are the moon landing and the Kennedy assassination, but unimaginably more people saw the Zidane headbutt; an event whose significance is in fact largely confined to the fact that so many people watched it happen. That's an amzaing thing to think about, and it's one reason why, for all the reasons it gives us to be cynical, the game can still create legends. It means something because it means something to everyone.

To me that says it all.....We will be consumed til July 11th...forgive me if I don't answer your call or email........

Ruth, Harold, Chris, Leah, Andrea, Orlando, Sammy and Emma!!!!