Can Ecuador put something on the board against Peru? Will Peru manage a win and go to the top of the group?
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Can Ecuador put something on the board against Peru? Will Peru manage a win and go to the top of the group?
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Dog Dawg Damn
Moving to California tomorrow. Escaping red state hell for greener (browner?) pasture where healthcare and human dignity are valued, if not assured.
Can’t wait to vote for Kamala and Hillary in November and live in the land of the same once again.
Onkel Fritze
Seems like nobody cares about the game, it is entertaining though.
mark
Is this about soccer?
humboldtblue
@mark:
Yes. No 1941 border wars here, just Copa Centenario.
piratedan
they’re both countries that are currently accepting BernieBros who are fed up with American politics
Mike J
@Onkel Fritze: Couldn’t find it in my TV lineup. Haven’t the other games been on Fox sports?
burnspbesq
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Welcome (y bienvenidos)! Where in our fair state are you headed?
StringOnAStick
Went to Ecuador a year and a half ago, and really liked everything except the Mad Max driving culture. I could see living there more so than perpetual economic basket case Argentina. Bernie Bros will go for Uruguay because legal weed though.
Dog Dawg Damn
@burnspbesq: Sacramente area (gold country)
Spinoza is my Co-pilot
Went to the game with my Peruvian daughter-in-law and her family and a wider circle of local Peruvian friends and acquaintances. Took a party bus from a downtown PHX Peruvian restaurant (El Chullo) with them to and from the game, such a blast! Everyone into it, singing and chanting for their country’s team and dancing the whole time, keeping it up during and after the game, too. Didn’t sit down at all during the game, had seats in the very first row near the north goal. The only gringo in the group (and old as dirt, too — oldest of our bunch by far) but these people know how to party and I always have a great time with them (including visiting Peru a couple years ago). They are seriously into their football, so even their normal high-level of partying was taken up a couple notches.
Game seemed well-played to me. Hadn’t previously been a huge football fan (played a lot of baseball and American football as a lad, only a couple schoolyard “soccer” games in grade school) but I understand how the game is played. Never saw a match at this level before, though (national teams competing). Peru got their two goals very quickly (within the first 13 minutes of the match) and played (it seemed) somewhat more energetically, keeping the ball mostly on Ecuador’s side the first half. Peru seemed to tire a bit more in the second half, though, so the opposite was true then and Ecuador evened it up. I’d say pretty evenly-matched so the final 2-2 accurately reflected the talent/effort on both sides.
Count me a new football fan, at least as a live event. The skill and athleticism was very enjoyable to watch relatively up-close, and the fans on both sides really added to the fun.
Onkel Fritze
@Mike J: I wouldn’t know. I live in Colombia :).