Wednesday night was much different. Our favorite soccer team played Boca Juniors from Argentina.
Boca is probably the most well known soccer team in South America. They've won lots of national and international championships. Just last year they were in the final of the world club championships. That's the same championship our team won in 2006.
Anyway, we are currently playing in an international championship and Wednesday we had to face Boca. We played them at home on Wednesday and in a couple of weeks we go to Argentina to play them in their home stadium. The best combined score after two games qualifies you for the next round.
Since we've lived here Boca has twice put our team out of this tournament. It was payback time.
The game started at 10:05. That's p.m. You need to understand that, at night in Brasil, everything revolves around soap operas. Games during the week, that are on television, don't start until 9:45 at the earliest because of the soap operas.
Bronwyn, Garrett and I went and we had a great time. They know they have a pretty cool mom who allows them to stay out past midnight on a school night for something as "important" as a soccer game.
Back to my first statement. Boca always has fans wherever they play. In our post about the lone fan you'll remember that the visiting fans have a section fenced in just for them.....to help prevent fights. Boca packed the visitors section completely full and jumped, sang, tomahawk chopped (no team significance) and danced during the whole game. They never stopped. It was actually fun to watch their energy. This is a quick, dark video but here is what they sounded like 30 minutes before the game:
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And here is our pregame response to Boca's loudness:
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The game was delayed for a couple of minutes because these sparklers from our fans.....
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It's pretty normal during a big game.
It was a great, tight game until the second half when we made our first goal (you can catch a glimpse of Bronwyn and Garrett's head and arms at the beginning):
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We won the game 2-0. Our team has tons of talent but have had a pretty mediocre year. Beating this team helped with alot of the pain from our average season as well as the fact that our mortal enemy (gremio.......still can't bring myself to use a capital g)is currently in first place in the Brasilian championship.
If anyone, outside of my dad, cares, here are some of the best plays of the game.
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