¡GOOOOOOOOOL!

i must confess i am a bit of a soccer fan(football, for all you non-americanos). i'm too much of a cheapskate to spring for cable tv, so i've had to content myself with watching whatever games i am able to catch on the spanish channel.


i might lose friends for admitting this, but i cheered for argentina today. yes, mexico made the first goal (and a lovely goal it was), but i still cheered for the other guys. it's awkward because i have many mexican friends and many argentine friends. i don't quite know what decided it for me. maybe it was their six-point demolition of serbia & montenegro, maybe it was some subconscious sissy-girly reason like preferring their uniform to mexico's. i can't really say. anyway, it was a fabú edge of my sofa game. i'm sure my neighbors think i'm nuts.

i've always loved soccer in my way. i'm not a huge sports watcher, so any sport that will extract a saturday afternoon from my life - in spanish, no less - for me is pretty hardcore. maybe it's because it's the only sport i ever played. i was six and i was terrible. for years i gloated about the fact that we never lost a single game...but then i wondered if they both teams they'd won. we were just six and seven year olds after all. regardless, it gave me a love of the game that will serve me well when i live anywhere outside the states.

(speaking of the states, can we just pretend we're not there. it's a little embarrassing that we suck so bad.)