I have to be more selective about what football I watch these days. No. Let me write that again. Life chooses what football I can watch these days. Most of the good football, or the football I follow, happens in Europe in my daytime.
(As I write this I'm sort of watching Toronto FC online, live. So there is some football I follow that happens in the right time zone)
When it comes to Champions League semifinals, first leg matches, I consoled myself at missing both by thinking that I could maybe make an effort to watch the second legs when winners are decided.
That has always been my thing with two-legged match-ups: one team might dominate the first one and be up 2-0, 3-1 but it means nothing when they lose the second one 3-0. Barcelona-PSG anyone?
But thanks to Real Madrid and Juventus being so good yesterday and today, I am not thinking too much about finding time to watch the return matches next week. I'm already thinking I have to be doing nothing on Saturday, June 3rd at 2pm. Now why did I plan that event at work for June 3rd? I checked for holidays, family events, major events in my part of the world but I never checked the date of the Champions League final.
Kaka. How's that for a name of somebody who you thought must have retired moons ago, when he stopped being the superstar for Brazil that he never quite was. He is the highest paid player in the MLS and pulled a goal back on the stroke of halftime for Orlando, to make it 2-1 for TFC. He will make about $7.2m this year. Not bad for what many sceptics think is a league to come to retire in.
He's 35 and earning more than Sebastian Giovinco, a player who came to Toronto in his prime and who scored TFC's two goals so far tonight.
And for another daily dose of happy football here is Kaka scoring a beauty for Brazil, their first goal in the 2006 World Cup.
"Kaka, Kaka.....(in that wonderful BBC English commentary voice)
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