Football is on the mind...

Sooo in ten days a qualifier game for the 2014 World Cup will be hosted by the Jamaican national team. And they'll be playing the USA team. Who’s excited?!?!

This girl.

Anndd all the other football fans in Santa. Thus they walk to me and talk about how the Reggae Boyz will be winning the match. ( I politely disagree, and I express this to those who say otherwise).  ( I got the reggae boyz logo from google images).

Even this morning on Smile Jamaica, a morning news show, the gamekeeper was interviewed about the preparation for the field. It’s quite exciting! September 7^th will be the start of the second games played for Group A: USA, Jamaica, Guatemala and Antigua & Barbuda ; not to forget the other groups too. Costa Rica and Mexico play their match for Group B too! I will be looking out for the results on that match as Mexico will be playing in Costa Rican territory.

This past Sunday, I went to a school boy football game. It was STETHS (a high school here) versus Manchester (another HS). There was a vuvuzela vendor who was hitting on my friend and I. After failed attempts of getting him to stop talking to us and move on, the vendor and I began talking about the upcoming match. His prediction is that Jamaica will win 3-1. I say it will be the other way around. Football is on the mind…

( Google images: and I wonder how many Americans will be at the Stadium for the game next Friday...)

And that includes American football too!

I’ve been tracking the NFL a little, as the preseason is here at last. Panthers play the Steelers this Thursday. And I used to be clueless about the NFL, actually about football in general because my household has always leaned towards the other futbol. Thank you mom. But with the help of a diehard USC Gamecocks friend in high school, she patiently explained the basics in her living room while USC was playing a team I can’t remember. haha, and now I know what most of the positions in a team is, I get confused sometimes, but essentially I know what's meant to happen. If anyone wants to educate me further, be my guest. 

What makes both these games (american and international football) exciting of course is being their live. To have the energy going into the stadium and connect the energy of the spectators. To lose your voice in the process. Watching a game is exhausting. Especially when you’re screaming at a TV screen or the actual players that can’t hear you.

I have two little flags on my desk with the SDC. One is the USA flag that I brought into the office for July 4^th. The Jamaican flag was put there by staff, when Jamaican’s independence came, to compliment the USA flag. It’s a conflict of interest when I want the Reggae Boyz to play well and succeed, while having the strong patriotism for my own country’s team. Sigh. What’s a girl to do? J