Okay so as you can probably guess, I am going to talk about futbol. Today (Saturday) was our soccer day. It was the day that we got to experience our first Paraguayan soccer clinic. There was about 25 kids that a church had gathered from the neighbourhood and they all came to a dirt field to play for a couple hours.
The kids were probably between the ages of 6-12 and we had a ton of fun playing just a friendly game among doing drills and other soccer related stuff. Then, at the end of the time, we had a game that was Thomas, Bryan, Judah, two women that play for the Paraguayan national team, and I, which we called ¨Canada¨ vs. the 8 or 9 kids that were a bit older (between the ages of 10-12) called ¨Paraguay.¨ An epic battle it was. But us Canadians found ourselves struggling to keep up with these extremely energetic kids who were half our size and age. We managed to pull off a 3-3 tie but wow, it was one difficult tie to earn.
Ok so now, here I was in my life, thinking that Canadians were passionate about hockey. After today, I realized that this passion is nothing compared to the way Paraguayans love their futbol. Today, Paraguay played Argentina in a World Cup qualifier game at 3:00 in the afternoon. Now first of all, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina are the best teams in South America so you have to understand the intense rivalry already. On top of this, Argentinians are not really liked by anyone in South America it seems and so a combo of these two things, along with the fact that Paraguay will die for their soccer makes for one doozie of a game.
So we, of course, had to fit in with the locals and watch this game. We went to the mall (yes, the mall) because they play the game just about everwhere in the country when there is a game like this. In the food court, there was 4 TV screens where there was hundreds of people of all ages making an unbelievable amount of noise about everything that happened in the game. Most of the shops in the mall close down for the game as well. About 15 minutes into the game, Paraguay scored. Wow. It was ridiculous. The people were jumping and cheering and going absolutely insane while they sang some song that everyone knew. But then in the 2nd half, Argentina scored. Not good.
It was a 1-1 game but probably one of the craziest things I have seen yet. We are actually hoping to go to a game that will be in the stadium with 40 000 other crazy people.
That is all for now.
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3 comments:
Wow, I'm not even a soccer fan and I wish I was in that mall! Why don't people like Argentinians?
I read a bunch of your posts and it sounds like you guys are having a great time!! I pray that God keeps blessing him as you continue to serve him!
boludo, que paso con el argetines? me gusta tus letras. como es tu espanol, mejor, o caundo el gente hablan, comprendes nada. jaja con tiempo.saludos.
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