European Soccer Championships Final Game Today
The cheering, the whistling and the horn honking is almost over: the final game of the European Soccer Championships will be held tonight in Vienna (local time 8.45 pm). Soccer fans all over the world will tune in to see Germany battle Spain.
After living in Munich for over 20 years, the soccer bug has finally bit me; I must admit that I watched almost all of the 31 games, writing down the scores to see which teams would advance and who would play whom in which quarter-final game.
Compared to other team sports, soccer is a fairly straight-forward type of game: just kick the ball into the goal. You don’t have to learn abstract concepts like innings, outs, balls and strikes or first-down, third-and-ten, 6 points for a touchdown, 3 for a field goal, etc. But because soccer is a low scoring game, it can be very boring, unless you can follow the strategies being played. Also, winning a soccer game requires a bit of luck: the best team doesn’t always win, just like in business. Perhaps it is this surprise factor which keeps people hooked.
If you are making any international calls on Monday (especially to Germany or Spain), don’t forget to check the game results (euro2008.uefa.com) so you can kibitz with the rest of the world.
Image from fortlauderdale.gov
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