Well, I do believe that my brother stole all the thunder in talking about Spain. I’ll admit that was the first time in a “real” soccer environment such as mass support for the team either Club or Nation. To prove my point, there was a commercial depicting the players on the Spain National Team on an African Safari and they turned a mighty roaring lion into a whimpering house cat. I haven’t ever seen anything like that for our National Team. Anyways, my brother pretty much stole everthing I could of talked about, but oh well, early bird gets the worm.
The only big news in actual soccer is that workers in South Africa went on strike. Sadly, I’m living in the past because the strike ended on Tuesday (July 14th) or Wednesday (July 15th). I know that the stadium in Cape Town was planned to be newly construct as was many other of the stadiums in the country, and South Africa had to build many forms of infrastructure. If the strike went on longer, who knows what would have happened. Here is a link if anyone feels like reading:
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=ap-southafrica-wcup-strike&prov=ap&type=lgns
Besides that, I don’t really have much to say about soccer. I mean the CONCACAF Gold Cup is going on as well as the MLS, but people aren’t really drawn to that brand of soccer. I personally enjoy the MLS, and really any soccer for that matter. As for international soccer, Qualifying doesn’t resume till August 12th or later I believe. So, maybe next time I’ll talk about something outside of soccer if it suits my fancy.