For those who are not familiar, or never read my post GOOOOAAALLLL!!!!!, the tournement is about to begin. Yes, the World Cup starts on June 9, 2006! I am very excited, because I expect Germany to win. Brazil winning could be fun too. I hope to watch every game that is available in the U.S.
For those who are unfamiliar, the World Cup is held only once every 4 years. The top football (known as soccer in the United States) teams of the world come together and play for one month. The best in the world hold the title til the next games. The games are played in various stadiums in one nation, this year is Germany’s turn. Now I have mentioned that this is a big deal. Let me elaborate. It is estimated that the final match will have over 1 billion veiwers on television worldwide. 3 billion will be at the combined games. 30,000,000,000 worldwide will watch the various matches in total. Now those are numbers. Baseball, the NBA, and Football combined don’t hit these numbers.
But that isn’t the impact that football (soccer) has. Due to the fact that the Ivory Coast [it’s a nation in Africa] has, for the first time, a team going to play in the Cup the warring factions have called a truce. The government and those same groups have sat down and started talks. In effect, due to being able to compete in this competition, peace has been given a chance where no other force or action has had any effect. A nation has united because of this one act. Tell me that doesn’t make you the least bit interested in what may happen. I know I am.
This is what I think, what do you think?
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