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still no score

Wow, 70 minutes in and still no score. I believe that what happens is that if it’s still scoreless (or tied) at 90 minutes (plus a couple more they add to compensate for any delays) they play two more 15-minute … Continue reading

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d’oh!

So close! And, two minutes later: Damn. I really thought that one was going in. (So did the player.)

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uh-oh

Yikes, *another* yellow card. (If a player gets two, he’s pulled from the game and his team is down one person.)

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halftime, or whatever it’s called (I think it actually is called halftime)

Evidence suggests that World Cup finals commercials are the Europe equivalent of Super Bowl commercials – there was just an amazing Coke commericals featuring CGI-animated insects stealing a sleeping picnicker’s Coke. Also, one quick one with a deodorant can playing … Continue reading

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no score, but beer

40 minutes in and things are still kind of quiet – not only in my opinion, and not only is the score still 0-0, but the crowd has only made noise a few times and those were mostly for injuries, … Continue reading

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quick note

Dear Dutch player: Please to not take your cues from the way the Americans were playing. Kicking the ball way across the field and directly to someone from the other team is bad. Even I know that! (Kicking your opponent … Continue reading

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it begins

Funny – the first channel I found the game on was in German, of which I understand even less than I do Dutch. SO I was scouting around for a local channel and I found one, all right – Omroep … Continue reading

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photos!

I was right – it’s not really possible to take great crowd photos if you can’t get up above them. But I had to at least try. This is just the queue for an ATM – a very uniformly-colored queue. … Continue reading

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*my* sport

Hey, while scouting around for the right channel to see the game, I found the other World Cup – the rowing one in Lucerne – being shown on Eurosport. Cool. Great Britain won the men’s eight, the US was something … Continue reading

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the songs

I just did a little web research to figure out what some of the songs are that I keep hearing. Apparently the one that goes to the tune of Auld Lang Syne is “Wij houden van oranje” (We love orange). … Continue reading

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