football

Kinesio-What?

August 28, 2008

I’m sure you often find yourselves asking what Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Lance Armstrong, Olympics beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh, and I have in common. If you guessed that we’re all super-athletic studmuffins… well, you’d be wrong (at least in my case, I could knock you down with the wind generated by flapping my [...]

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Friends, family and funerals

July 1, 2008

It’s been a pretty eventful week here in the AmiExpat household, I’ve barely had time to recover from the expat weekend (and people are already asking me about when the next event is – no idea yet!).
On Friday, we met up with B, Blythe and Katie in Nürnberg for Indian food. First, we met for [...]

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Germany v. Poland

June 15, 2006

I can’t believe I’m only now getting around to blogging last nights game. I’m getting old. I didn’t even party that hard and it took me half the day to recover. Maybe I’m not that old, I’m just out of practice.
Riot police just behind the Reichstag. Luckily they weren’t needed in Berlin, but in Dortmund, [...]

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game over

June 12, 2006

We got schooled

Czech Republic won 3:0, dominating the USA every step of the way. Now the USA pretty much needs to beat Italy to advance to the next round. Italy plays Ghana in 20 minutes, we’ll see how they look, but it appears that the chances of the US advancing are now slim. Rainer says [...]

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Halftime

June 12, 2006

It’s 0:2 to the Czech Republic, and Czech player Jan Koller left the game with what appeared to be a bad hamstring injury. I’m no big football fan, so here are two observations from someone who doesn’t know anything about football:

The USA players slide a lot more than the other teams. Is this a good [...]

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Lipreading

June 12, 2006

Hey, one of the guys on the USA coaching team just mouthed “F*CK ME!” (The guy in the blue shirt with the cool ’stache sitting next to the coach)

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The First Upset

June 10, 2006

The first big surprise of the World Cup: Trinidad & Tobago draws with Sweden 0:0. Sweden was clearly the better team, outplaying T&T at every step, but luck and heart kept them scoreless. The Trinidad & Tobago players never gave up. Even at the end, when you could see the exhaustion, the effort it took [...]

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