For Pops, Sascha and all Inter fans

I'll go ahead and apologize to you anti-soccer fans.  You can go to another site now if you want because we are sharing again about our favorite soccer team. You've been warned.

Thursday night our team played in the quarter finals of the Libertadores.

We played against a team from Argentina that actually won the whole thing last year and almost won the World Championship.

The team is called Estudiantes.  They are tough.

First game was in our house and me, Bronwyn, Ansley and Garrett all went.

It was a tough game.  Like two heavyweight fighters just beating on each other.  It was important for us to win at home and to not let them score a goal on us.

No one scored.  Not until there was 3 minutes left in the game.  Then this happened:

Here is what my kids (and the stadium) looked like 10 seconds later:

Apparently I missed part of Garrett's celebration right after the goal. One of the things I love about going to a big game with my kids is the celebration after a goal. Complete strangers hugging you.

I've had guys hug me, rub my shaved head, etc.  This happened again on Thursday night. The 20 something year old guy celebrating next to Garrett gave him a bunch of high fives and then picked Garrett up in the air and jumped up and down with him.  (If you look at the video again, then my apologies for the guy as he shoots the bird towards the opposing fans. Not proud of it. Unfortunately it's a pretty common thing that some fans do at games.)

Here is another video of what the stadium looked like a couple of minutes after the goal:

It was loud!  Our videos never carry how loud it can get.

We loved it.  It's always fun to go with my kids and even more so when we win a big game. As we wind down our days together with Bronwyn before she goes to college, these games are even more fun. Garrett was especially happy because his favorite player scored the goal. We won't ever forget these times together.

Now we go to Argentina next week.  We need to tie, win or we can even get beat by one goal with any score above 1-0.  Does that make sense? If we do any of those things then we go to the semifinals.

Hopefully we will share more good news next week after the game.

Here are "best plays" highlights from the game.