Ok, if you are one of the 8 people in the US who care about the USA men's soccer team, then you were pretty excited about what happened this week. For the other 250 million of you, the USA needed to beat Egypt by 3 goals, and have Brazil beat Italy by 3 goals (the equivalent of a 14-0 drubbing in baseball) to advance to the semi-finals in the Confederations Cup. The Cup is a big warm up event for next years World Cup in South Africa. It happened. Then the USA pulled off a huge upset Wednesday by beating #1 ranked Spain to advance to their first world class tournament Final against Brazil (who drubbed the USA in pool competition, 3-0)
The game was a pretty big deal here in Dubai, so I went to the local hangout to catch the game last night. Big crowd, lots of Brazilian fans and probably the most Americans I've seen in one place since I have been here (there were 8 of us). Shockingly, and very easily, the USA took a 2-0 lead against Brazil into the locker room. At this point, I'm thinking conspiracy...
South Africa is holding the World Cup 2010. The power houses of Europe and South America are all going to be there in force, but what about those 8 Americans and their 250 million friends? How do we get them to jump on a plane for 17 hours to follow their team? Voila! we get them excited by letting their team pull off a huge soccer miracle. Beat Brazil and tens of thousands will be filling up their credit cards with tickets, planes and hotels Monday morning. Is Delta Air Lines in on the fix?
Alas, Brazil scored in the first 40 seconds of the second half and pretty much ruled the rest of the game, winning 3-2.
It was a good theory, and I'm not sure it's totally baseless.
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