Damn busy life.........hate neglecting my blog! Short to the
rescue.....shorter blogs=more blogs more often? I'll take a short blog
and a Blog of Note to go..............I Wish! Anyone out there? Do you
know I'm even here? One lonely blogger.....and my poor undetected
Weblog. If any of you were watching the World Cup "8th of finals"(Round
of Sixteen) between Italy and Korea, you know that Italy is out and
Korea will go on to the Quarter Finals. Very depressing for the Italians
and Italia Fans and Luigi of course. He was a bit glum this morning
after viewing the video he had taped at 4:00 a.m. He always watches it
on Univision because he thinks the coverage is better than ESPN; and
they show the ceremonious playing of the country's national Anthems with
each player standing behind a little Korean child.Very impressive and
emotional...reminds me of the Olympics.(The World Cup Matches are being
held in Korea and Japan.) I used to get that emotional for the
Lakers(I'm not sure what happened with that.) What is truly amazing is
that the U.S. has made it to the Quarter Finals! Something that has not
happened in the last 70 years. I have become a fan! Hope that the U.S.'s
success so far will begin to drum up more interest here, in the game
that was banned in Renaissance Florence as being too violent. Watch the
awesome 'head' plays. I saw one player aim the ball from his head
directly into the net for a goal! In the opening Anthem ceremony the
camera scanned the entire stadium.............totally unreal sight.
Every person in that stadium was wearing a red T-shirt (Red and
White--Korean colors). There were probably few exceptions because all
you could see was a sea of red and no other disruptions of color. How do
you get a crowd of almost 65,000 to all don the sameT-shirt? How?! It
pretty much knocked me for a loop staring at that huge 'red' stadium. If
there were ads on the radio and t.v. tomorrow to let everyone know that
they all should show up for the next Dodger Game in Chavez Ravine with
Blue T-shirts, I don't think it would happen.........Sure there would be
many people who would show up in blue....but for sure not all of them!
What makes those Koreans so unified? What the heck makes almost every
single last one of them wear a Red T-shirt to that Soccer Match? I can
tell you that that solid red stadium must have been intimidating as hell
to the Italian team. Soccer has become a compelling contender in sports
and has a strong loyal following in almost every major country in the
world including the Continents of Africa, Asia,Europe, South America and
the MId-East.........Maybe eventually in this country. But I sure wish I
knew how they got the entire Stadium to turn red like
that............what loyalty!!! Stay Tuned, Peach