It's football and it's live. So I'll watch it now that I don't have to share the TV with the baseball All-Star game. Father of a baseball fan, I am. But don't get me started on all-star games.
I'm watching USA-Martinique in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. It's the classic minnows versus overwhelming favourites kind of match at a major tournament, where the favourites are huffing and puffing to score a goal and the underdogs are looking a lot better than anybody ever imagined they would. Oh, USA just scored, ten minutes into the second half. It still won't stop me from looking up just how bad Martinque are at football. Worse than Malta? Hard to tell, since they're not a Fifa member as the island is an overseas region of France and thus not able to compete as a country in
World Cup qualifying.
2-0. But I'll keep going.
Hold on. 2-1. The islanders make this interesting. Hmm...so that's why Brad Guzan was considered surplus to requirements at Aston Villa. Goalkeepers are there to save shots, right?
Most of the players in the Martinique team play in the local league, but a few play for lower division French teams.
(2-2! This is fun. Fate that I'm watching, maybe)
(3-2 USA. Barely finished writing that last sentence)
One player has just transferred from Poitiers FC to Voltigeurs de Chateaubriant, an amateur team in the fourth tier of French football. According to the transfermarkt website they currently have 11 players in their squad.
The other player in the French League plays for Villefranche, again in the fourth tier.
We used to make fun of American football for being this amateur but it has come so far that a lot of fans in the crowd tonight will be embarassed, despite the constant drum beating and chanting, that their team is struggling against a bunch of amateurs, literally.
90th minute. Still 3-2. Assume it ended that way unless there is a postscript.
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