[dd74]

Football (soccer, i.e. real football) is a great sport. Anyone can play it - within reason - and a participant doesn't need any additional equipment other than a ball.

The skill and fitness of the players is unreal. I once heard they easily run 20 kilometers a game, maybe more. And to kick a pass that spans almost the entire field as the keeper did in the opening host country's game, and have the striker score a goal after receiving the pass, was incredible.

By this time of the year, I'm so effin' sick of basketball, baseball and golf, that soccer is easily tuned into by me.