Wednesday, July 12, 2006
World Cup 2006
As I'm sure you've guessed, I was rooting for France to win the final of the World Cup Championship against Italy. Italy won it on penalty kicks - it was an agonizing but extremely exciting final.
Sunday was quite the sports day as it was also the Men's Final at Wimbledon. Suz and I were perplexed, we wanted to watch the final at our favorite WC06 watering hole (Ludwig's - german restaurant and bar) - and we wanted to get good seats -
The tennis coverage began at 9am - soccer wasn't until 2pm, but to insure choice seats - we had to arrive at the venue well before that. So we decided to go downtown to watch the tennis TOO! Although I wasn't feeling my best - it was a once in four years/lifetime event - so we headed down to Elephant and Castle for breakfast and to watch some Wimby.
We got to see Roger Federer defeat Rafa Nadal - another great match from this duo - to win his 4th straight Wimbledon title.
But now it was time for soccer - We did get great seats to watch the final, and, as luck would have it - we were soon surrounded by other French supporters - we (I) called ourselves the "french quarter" (as most of the other patrons were rooting for Italia) and we sang "Allez les bleus" and "Merci Zizou" - it was a blast.
Sadly the match did not end in France's favor - but it was a memorable experience all the same. We actually ended up going to dinner with our new "best friends" over in Old City at GiGi - for tapas and consolation.
Sunday was quite the sports day as it was also the Men's Final at Wimbledon. Suz and I were perplexed, we wanted to watch the final at our favorite WC06 watering hole (Ludwig's - german restaurant and bar) - and we wanted to get good seats -
The tennis coverage began at 9am - soccer wasn't until 2pm, but to insure choice seats - we had to arrive at the venue well before that. So we decided to go downtown to watch the tennis TOO! Although I wasn't feeling my best - it was a once in four years/lifetime event - so we headed down to Elephant and Castle for breakfast and to watch some Wimby.
We got to see Roger Federer defeat Rafa Nadal - another great match from this duo - to win his 4th straight Wimbledon title.
But now it was time for soccer - We did get great seats to watch the final, and, as luck would have it - we were soon surrounded by other French supporters - we (I) called ourselves the "french quarter" (as most of the other patrons were rooting for Italia) and we sang "Allez les bleus" and "Merci Zizou" - it was a blast.
Sadly the match did not end in France's favor - but it was a memorable experience all the same. We actually ended up going to dinner with our new "best friends" over in Old City at GiGi - for tapas and consolation.
# posted by PSUgirl @ 6:46 PM 
