For Tristan

Here is Crouch, in all his Crouchly glory.

He certainly is a tall mf, and he kinda looks like a praying mantis.

Anyway I hope Ingurando wins so we can all bask in the wonder of his robot dace.

For Luke

This is for Luke: Kawaguchi, otherwise known as Goaliemoto, the only saving grace of the Japanese soccer team.

What's that? More Horacio Elizondo you say?

Well ok!

Since I don't have anything else to post today, here is a another helping of Horacio.

Damn he's sexy!

So close, and yet so far

Just finished watching the Japan/Croatia game, and it was kind of disheartening. The last 15 minutes of the game the Japanese team just seemed to give up, when they should've been hustling all the more. We missed several good goal chances through lack of hustle and it was extremely frustrating to watch. We did end up with a tie score, but most of the credit for that goes to Kawaguchi (the goalie). We have to take on Brazil next and after tonight's lackluster performance I can't say I like our chances.

Maybe they should just replace the Japanese team with these soccer-playing crows...

Goog Niter

read about the soccer-playing crows

You know you want it...

More Horacio Elizondo.

He was the ref for the Czech vs. Ghana game tonight and was in top form, dispensing justice and yellow cards!

Go Horacio!

Goog Niter!

Nippon Cha Cha Cha!

So, we lost our first match, but I'm still hanging on to a tiny shread of hope that we might beat Croatia, although it seems pretty unlikely. I'll be supporting Japan to the bitter end though, with this lovely flag given to me by one of our students. The best part about this flag is that you can still smell the crayon on it! Hells yeah!
Goog Afternooner!

Soccer, Football, Fußball , Sakkaa

Whatever you want to call it, it would seem that hell has frozen over, since I'm blogging about the World Cup! Yes, that's right, due to the influence of all the Brits and Aussies around I to have caught World Cup fever and am watching the games semi-religiously, and shouting "Offsides!" a lot.
I've decided my favorite guy so far is Horacio Elizondo, the ref from Argentina. He's seriously hot in a distinguished yet still sexy kind of a way. Go Horacio!
In other World Cup news, we (Japan) got our asses handed to us on a platter by the Aussies who miraculously scored 3 goals in the last ten minutes after being down by one for practically the whole game! WTF? Better luck next time Japan! (Probably not though, since we have to go up against Brazil and Croatia)

P.S. A big shout-out to my man Peter Crouch! (That's just for you Erica!)

An interesting article on Brazilian players' nicknames