Mullets In Cincinatti
Wednesday, 20 December 06, 06:15 PM · Comments(2)
I'm not particularly inspired at the moment, sitting around in the bleak surroundings of Cincinnati airport, waiting for yet another connecting flight on my convoluted journey home. My mad rush for the airport bus from my Tokyo hotel now seems like a distant memory (which is good, because the memory itself is not great - I was late getting on the bus, and some angry woman at the front scolded me and told me to apologise to everyone on it; it was only 5 minutes, but that's Japanese punctuality for you). The Tokyo experience was brilliant - we had a great team of bloggers there, and a great footballing event to watch, and there couldn't have been a cooler setting than Tokyo, the mother of all cities. I spent my last day there going all around the city on a motorbike and that was something else.
I'm not going to blog about the football much, because my fellow bloggers from the contest have already done that, and done it really well. Chris, Ian, Jennifer and Mauricio, before I forget, thanks for doing such a great job and helping create such a positive atmosphere. This was just the first of many OleOle events, and you guys helped to make it a great success.
I was glad to see Al-Ahly do well, because they played good football. I was glad to see Internacional do well, because they were the ones I had expected to win, and they delivered. It was something of a fairy story when Adriano scored. He's hated by the home supporters in Brazil (in fact Mauricio tells me that he had requested the coach to only play him in away games because he didn't want to deal with the abuse from the home fans). Life is funny like that. When the team's hero Fernandao was subbed off for Adriano, the radio commentator was abusing the coach's decision, and we were all a bit puzzled. Then Mauricio said, "Just watch, he will be hero". And so it went.
It was great to see the Inter players singing and dancing and celebrating afterwards, and you could see just how much winning it meant to them. Well done boys.
I'll leave you readers with a picture of us bloggers from the night before the final day. We all went out for a nice "OleOle dinner", and it was great preparation for the exciting day that lay ahead:
I'm not going to blog about the football much, because my fellow bloggers from the contest have already done that, and done it really well. Chris, Ian, Jennifer and Mauricio, before I forget, thanks for doing such a great job and helping create such a positive atmosphere. This was just the first of many OleOle events, and you guys helped to make it a great success.
I was glad to see Al-Ahly do well, because they played good football. I was glad to see Internacional do well, because they were the ones I had expected to win, and they delivered. It was something of a fairy story when Adriano scored. He's hated by the home supporters in Brazil (in fact Mauricio tells me that he had requested the coach to only play him in away games because he didn't want to deal with the abuse from the home fans). Life is funny like that. When the team's hero Fernandao was subbed off for Adriano, the radio commentator was abusing the coach's decision, and we were all a bit puzzled. Then Mauricio said, "Just watch, he will be hero". And so it went.
It was great to see the Inter players singing and dancing and celebrating afterwards, and you could see just how much winning it meant to them. Well done boys.
I'll leave you readers with a picture of us bloggers from the night before the final day. We all went out for a nice "OleOle dinner", and it was great preparation for the exciting day that lay ahead:
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Lol, SM being late and getting told off, not that this would have ever happened to you before (I mean the being late bit)?
Hi Suleiman. Once again, thanks for the grat experience. And the guess Adriano would be the hero was one in a million. I couldn't believe he made it.