AHHH OHHH DYN-A-MO!
Last week my dad got 10 tickets to the MLS championship game in Frisco TX. It was Houston Dynamos vs. New England Revolution. I am not a big MLS fan but I couldn't pass up a chance to go to the superbowl of American soccer. It was a small stadium (only 23000 people showed up) Not very big for a championship game and the majority who did were sporting Houston orange. The game was fun, hopefully i will have pictures up tomorrow. There was an entire section of hooligans that were a riot. They threw streamers and all sorts of confetti on the field and it was fun to watch the people run out onto the pitch and try to keep it free of debris. The parking situation was the worst and spending an hour gridlock in it almost ruined the whole drive down.
Houston won in shootouts after the keeper saved the last shot. It was a great save and an even better celebration. A power slide with the ball lifted high! Right in front of us. The regular play was pretty boring. Houston didn't move for the ball very much and was bunched up in the middle to much. They seemed to be playing with a defensive mind set but didn't counter fast enough for it to be effective. The revolution just lacked that one person in the middle of the field that could make it all come together. Alot of the time people made good runs and the person passing the ball was thinking something else and the ball would be turned over. I wasn't really impressed by the playing.
In over time we finally got some action. The revolution squeezed a ball pass the Dynamo defense and one of the guys capitalized on it by putting the ball easily past the keeper in the far lower corner of the net. With only 7 mins left in the game I thought surely we had lost the game but 30 seconds later ching headed in a deflected shot to tie up the game. The place went into hysterics and I hugged everyone around me with an exited "there is hope" embrace. The game is one that I will remember for a long time and it was good to see so many people get excited about soccer. The sport will only get bigger and I cant wait till it is celebrated more then football, or basketball on sportscenter. Its going to happen, its only a matter of time now.
Houston won in shootouts after the keeper saved the last shot. It was a great save and an even better celebration. A power slide with the ball lifted high! Right in front of us. The regular play was pretty boring. Houston didn't move for the ball very much and was bunched up in the middle to much. They seemed to be playing with a defensive mind set but didn't counter fast enough for it to be effective. The revolution just lacked that one person in the middle of the field that could make it all come together. Alot of the time people made good runs and the person passing the ball was thinking something else and the ball would be turned over. I wasn't really impressed by the playing.
In over time we finally got some action. The revolution squeezed a ball pass the Dynamo defense and one of the guys capitalized on it by putting the ball easily past the keeper in the far lower corner of the net. With only 7 mins left in the game I thought surely we had lost the game but 30 seconds later ching headed in a deflected shot to tie up the game. The place went into hysterics and I hugged everyone around me with an exited "there is hope" embrace. The game is one that I will remember for a long time and it was good to see so many people get excited about soccer. The sport will only get bigger and I cant wait till it is celebrated more then football, or basketball on sportscenter. Its going to happen, its only a matter of time now.
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