So the 13th which it still is today in the US is my mother's birthday. I just wanted to give a special birthday shoutout to my favorite girl!
Anyway, so I was able to go to a couple of men's soccer matches yesterday and it was beyond an interesting sight. The games themselves were pretty amazing. The first game featured USA v. Nigeria and the second game was Argentina v. Serbia. Now while the Nigerians pulled off the victory, the highlight of the game I'd have to say was the Nigerian cheering section that had drums playing and did not sit down the entire game, even with the little security man trying to get them to sit down the entire game. The game in itself was exciting but watching the Nigerians be extra crunk in the stands was Def something to see. Argentina pulled off the victory in the next match.
If you've noticed that the Chinese are pretty much holding it down in the Gold medal count. They are beating the US by 7 and are only two behind in the overall medal count. Now while this has been done primarily by putting people into many competitions that either A people don't care about or B take little or no talent. Regardless you have to give credit where credit is due and the Chinese deserve some credit. However, while winning in competitions is what they are good... The soccer game revealed some things they are not so good at. GO CHINA!
1. Paying attention to the game... the Chinese people are easily distracted. For at least half of the Argentina game people were staring at Kobe Bryant or at Maradona, none of which were actually playing
2. In the same breath as the earlier post.. Keeping their cool around "superstars" At one point I heard a grown man shrill like a school girl when he thought that Maradona was going to go into the game.
3. Doing the wave... They generally just don't understand the wave. First of all they call it the "mexican wave" when the wave became Mexican I don't know. Second, they spent the majority of both games trying to get a wave started and never quite got it right. I don't think they understand that you can't have 5 sections trying to start a wave. At some point it's just a bunch of people standing up and sitting down
4. Clapping... First of all they often attempt to clap on beat and it is absolutely awful. Second when they attempt to just randomly clap, their hands are too tense and it just sounds terrible. It makes sense that they brought in cheer coaches to teach people how to clap
5. Cheerleading... First of all cheerleaders at a soccer game is strange. Second they were like the Hooters girls, rhythmless, robotic and w/out coordination. Also there were too many of them and they were not adequately spaced apart... How do I know this you ask... am I a closet cheer coach? No, they were just about bumping into each other.
6. Making money off of concessions... While this is admirable that they don't want to make money off of their people and I'm certainly not complaining, they could make a KILLING if they wanted to, but instead they are charging the equivalent of about 75 cents for all beverages. GO CHINA!!!!!!
For now that's all...
did you know... that August 13th is the birthday of my mother!
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