{"id":309,"date":"2006-06-12T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T10:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/12\/world-cup-update\/"},"modified":"2006-06-12T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T10:11:30","slug":"world-cup-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/12\/world-cup-update\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between graduation yesterday and a trip to Williamstown Saturday (to see the Clark brothers exhibit<\/a>, which was very cool), I didn’t actually get to watch much soccer over the weekend. I caught most of the second half of the ancestral homeland’s humiliating loss to Ecuador, and most of England’s one-nil victory over Paraguay (though not the actual goal).<\/p>\n

Scattered thoughts below the fold:<\/p>\n

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Boy, do American soccer announcers suck. The guys doing the England game for ESPN were just dull. In contrast, the YooKaydain team they had for Poland-Ecuador (One English, one Irish) was a hoot. At one point, they referred to the most experience player on the Ecuador squad as “a talismanic figure for this team,” which is something you just don’t get from American ex-jocks. I also liked “He’s really made an impression on the Poles. Mostly around the shins.”<\/p>\n

England’s really tall striker guy sure is a gawky sonofabitch, isn’t he? And I say this as someone who’s only an inch of so shorter than he is. But damn, he looks like a stick figure out there. Weirdly, he also seemed to feel a need to push off constantly, and was frequently called for it.He eventually got a yellow card for whining.<\/p>\n

David Beckham is really good. I know this is hardly news to anyone in, oh, the rest of the world, but we don’t see him much in the US. It’d be really interesting to see what he could do if he were putting forth some effort.<\/p>\n

The US opens play at noon today, and I may wander down to the campus center to eat lunch and watch a littl of the game on the big-screen tv there. Other than that, I’ll miss the rest of today’s action, as I have to work. Curse these time zones, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between graduation yesterday and a trip to Williamstown Saturday (to see the Clark brothers exhibit, which was very cool), I didn’t actually get to watch much soccer over the weekend. I caught most of the second half of the ancestral homeland’s humiliating loss to Ecuador, and most of England’s one-nil victory over Paraguay (though not… Continue reading World Cup Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}