Yesterday I made one of my semester goals complete: watch a soccer game in Spain (c'mon the country has got the best soccer in the world). I LOVED it. Sevilla has two teams: Sevilla FC (the technically "better" team, but the people here say it's more of a bandwagon/rich people's team) and Real Betis (the team of the people!). I think a pretty good parallel would be that Sevilla FC is to Real Betis as the Yankees are to the Mets. A bunch of friends and I went to the Real Betis vs. Salamanca game and we won 1-0. It was close; we missed a PK in the first half (plus countless blown opportunities) and the ref didn't allow a Salamanca goal close to the end of the game on a pretty controversial offsides call. Either way, we had an awesome time and got to sit in front of some diehard fans (listen in the video) who knew all the team's songs. And for no extra charge, they narrated the game for us with some foul language in Spanish. I mean, they're passionate about their soccer. Couldn't be any worse than those Cubs fans in Miller Park every summer.
so very jealous. That is awesome.
ReplyDeleteAwful. Just Awful. Please go to more games. This looks like a ton of fun.
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