Comment on Soccer

So.. there is probably no excuse that would allow any Ghanian to forgive me if I didn't write about the World Cup! Ghana is a country that loves their soccer - just like everyone else in the world, except the Americans. The Ghana Black Stars won their game on Saturday!!!!! 1-0 to Serbia. The goal was scored on a penalty kick, but we'll take it. Ghana is way excited about it, especially because the general opinion of the world was that Ghana wasn't much of a threat. (This due to their admittedly poor game with Holland before the tournament officially began.)

Soccer games play each day now at work, decreasing work by 50% or more.... off of an already very lax attitude toward efficiency... :)

Also, the AMERICANS TIED with ENGLAND!!!!!! This, was a very very significant occurrence.The final score was 1-1. Everyone expected England to wipe the field with us! They are a very good team.. they can penetrate downfield quickly and have a strong attack! Fortunately, the American defense had some pretty darn impressive moves to combat it. The word of the night in description of the American defense was "scrappy". Junior was hoping just for the US to score against England; being able to keep them down to one. They were very disappointed, and we were very happy.

Along with all this soccer watching is the same 4 commercials that play every game. I'm trying to find them online, why would a company not post their commercial on youtube? That is a question beyond me apparently, but I don't understand. While I have yet to find the commercials that are playing here, if you replayed the World Cup theme song about 70 times a day, you would have a feeling of living in Ghana right now. Fortunately, I like the song, a lot. If you for some reason have not heard it (ok, let's be honest, if I were in the US right now, I would not have heard it) then listen to it!! here's the youtube link -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxWX1yGcsHQ

Listen, love it, enjoy.