The World Cup!

The World Cup is about to start; you should know this already! It's the most important sporting event in the world, and that fact should get anyone exited. Apparently, Korea has been pretty crazy over soccer ever since they hosted the tournament in 2002 and Korea surprisingly made it to the semi-finals and ultimately finished fourth place.

Korea plays Greece on Saturday at 8:30PM. It's their first game in the tournament, and I think it will be a great match-up, but I don't really know much about soccer so that assessment really means nothing. I'm going to Daegu's World Cup Stadium to watch it on the big screen on Saturday. Eric is finally getting his lazy ass down from Seoul, so I'll watch it with him and Miju. I hope they open up the field for people to sit on, rather than in the seasts, 'cause then we can get there early and play cards and drink beer and have a picnic.

America plays their opening game against England. This is at 3:30AM Sunday morning here in Korea. I'm gonna watch it. I feel like I have to. My English friend Chris thinks that America will probably beat England, and I want to believe him, but I know that England is usually pretty good. We'll see. I think they should call this match-up "The Revolutionary War: Part 2".

After playing Argentina in their second game, Korea plays Nigeria on the 23rd of this month. It's their last game in the opening round, and I'll have a Spanish couchsurfer staying with me when that game is on at 3:30PM. I'll probably watch it with the projector in my classroom if I can find a decent Internet feed.

This whole thing is perfect timing, too. With the Stanley Cup Finals having just wrapped up (thank god those fucking Flyers lost), I'll have a solid month worth of high quality, high stakes sport to watch in my free time. It should be great. Maybe not as great as four years ago when the World Cup was in Germany, and I could listen on the radio while I was landscaping, or wake up on the weekends at Chad's apartment and watch games, but still, I'm pretty pumped.