International Football…Say Whaaaat!

Today a group of us woke up early to run downtown and secure tickets to what I’m sure has been one of the biggest soccer games we’ve seen live. It was $7 to get into two back to back games: Ivory Coast vs. Liberia in the Olympic qualifiers and Ivory Coast vs. Benin in the African Cup qualifiers! The Olympic game was nothing quite too special. To be eligible to play in the games no players can be in a pro league so they’re all under 20 basically. But the African cup game was AWESOME. It was a legit national team game! So the players on the teams are those that play in the world cup!! Plus, Drogba, a famous player for an English league was playing for Ivory Coast! To accurately explain how important he is to world, African and English soccer, I have a notebook with his face on it… along with hundreds of other people!

So one of the guys I w ent with decided it was too good of an opportunity to  miss. He sweet talked his way into a press badge and spent the second half of the first game and the entire second game on the field, taking pictures and chatting with photographers and press from all over the country and continent. He’s rubbed it in our faces since, trust me.