World Cup Fever

The World is watching Germany as the host the 2006 Football (Soccer) World Cup. You can definitely feel the excitement and you can definitely tell which fans are which.

This past week, a friend of mine, Steve, who was an intern with me at the USOC was in town with about 10 of his other friends to watch some World Cup Games. Steve also has another American friend who lives in Bonn. It was a very fun - but tiring - weekend.

In other news, Germany beat Poland last night in the 91st minute of the game. It was an exciting game, but the crowd exploded when Germany scored. I went with a group from work to watch the game in one of the large squares in the city centre. It had been set up with a giant TV screen so there were about 2000 people in the "arena" watching the game. I thinka bout 1,980 of them were for Germany and another 20 or so for Poland. Absolutely insane. Who knew soccer fans were this crazy?