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The Croats. (I think Croatians should call themselves Croats).

The Croatian soccer team wears amazing jerseys. Most countries sport traditional solid colors with perhaps a stripe or two. The Croats decided to wear tacky Italian Restaurant tablecloths while competing against the soccer world powers.

Dado Prso and Darijo Srna are both Croatian soccer players who have un-pronouncable names, it is one of the greatest and funniest feelings in the world to see someone running down the pitch (which in soccer language means field) with a last name that is absolutely impossible to say.

The last great thing about the Croats is their fans. First they also wear the Italian tablecloths. So when the camera pans over the Croatian fans it looks like God is sitting down for a large Italian feast. However this image is stopped when the fans begin to light bonfires. Yes, in the stadium, in the seats the Croatians light up bonfires to help spur on the team. At one point a commentator said, "this would never happen in America," and he is absolutely right; things like that are illegal here in the states.

The Croatians so far are my favorite thing going on over in Gelsenkirchen Germany. The main reason is that I've been trying to come up with mascots for all the teams and the Croatians make it very easy ...The Croatian Fightin' Pyromanical Tacky Italian Tablecloths.


thing number two ---

Ronaldinho, sure he might be the best soccer player in the world, but where was he when they were casting Beetlejuice?

thing number three ---

Mexico's coach Ricardo Lavolpe. Why do I like Lavolpe, well he sits on the bench and chain smokes. Soccer is a sport where a bunch of 160 pound men run for a 90 minutes and those men, well they are coached by a chain smoking, goateed man who looks like a bad guy from a James Bond movie.




(TBC) possibly