Football is coming home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqimlFcJsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqimlFcJsM
At the start of the quarterfinals, I invited a group of coaches/club directors (youth, high school, college and professional) and a few other soccer fans with ties to North Bay soccer to weigh in on the remaining games. I did warn them their picks would be published for all to see [...]
As Brazil and Uruguay learned today, all good things must come to an end. Today we head back to Sonoma County after a fun stay in Oregon (mainly the Bend area with a day trip to Portland). Oregon was good to us but we look forward to enjoying the rest [...]
Our panel of local soccer experts/fans picked the first round of quarterfinals. I will post the results after the quarterfinals but over a third picked both games correctly, another group picked one of the two results correctly and just two got both wrong. If it were easy to pick the [...]
Thank you to the local soccer experts for picking the upcoming quarterfinal games at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Uruguay vs France - although the numbers might tell a different story (25 picking France and just 3 picking Uruguay) most think it will be a close game. It [...]
Now that the World Cup has reached a manageable number of games and teams, I reached out to North Bay soccer coaches (youth, high school, college and professional), youth club directors as well coaches with strong ties to the area. Many grew up in the area, played or coached [...]
My daughters (Sally and Gabby) and I visited the adidas headquarters in Portland yesterday and it got us thinking about the adidas FIFA World Cup balls. My favorite World Cup ball is the Tango. I prefer both the Rosario (1978) and Espana (1982) versions [...]
Coca-Cola might be the official drink sponsor of the World Cup, but yerba mate appears to be the drink of choice of many of the players competing in Russia. If you watch the teams in Russia, whether it be at the press conference, hotel or arriving to the stadium, you [...]