Having devoted myself to the World Cup, and to keeping you informed about it, my big take away so far is... oh my god, this is going to be a lot of games.
I have managed to watch almost four games and one set of full highlights over the course of the first three days of the tournament, and here is what I haven't seen yet:
1. Any team who has a serious chance of winning the tournament.
2. Any famous player who would genuinely be considered one of the best in the world.
But I don't mind any of it. I am all in. And while I might have had some complaints about the less than sparkling quality of the soccer at first, all of the sudden the USA came on, and, of all teams they looked terrific. I have never in my entire life seen the US team look good. I hardly knew what to think. Do I root for them?
Sure, why not.
But I won't chant or anything.
You know, because of the fascism and everything.
I am currently writing this by slipping away from the Switzerland Qatar game, which seemed like a foregone conclusion in favor of the Swiss, and maybe it is, but Switzerland are so far unable to open up their small lead any wider. Maybe something weird could happen? I doubt it, but I'm up for it.
My main goal is to catch the midnight game between Brazil and Morocco, which will feature some brilliant players and two teams that are sort of considered outside contenders, but who everyone finds a bit difficult to predict just how far outside. Brazil is full of talent and have a great manager, but have been underachieving for so long now that no one knows how to really believe in them any more except by ancient habit. Morocco has been over achieving so much recently that it's oddly a bit hard to believe they can do it again. It's kind of a perfect early test and the first game I'd love to see. Alas that I will probably be compelled to sleep through it.
Maybe I'll catch the replay in the morning.
Don't tell me what happens.
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