From the grocery stores that give away free German player collector cards (that you can store in the 19.99 euro album), to the bookstore stands and window displays devoted to everything soccer, to the propaganda on Coke bottles and M&Ms, the World Cup can't be avoided.
In every free space of the grocery stores, there are World Cup specific marketing stands.
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| Discover Brazil albums, kids activity books, etc. I don't understand the panda bears. |
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| Haribo candy stand |
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| Kinder chocolate stand |
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| My Babybel cheese comes with a soccer shoe, stickers, and instructions on how to play finger soccer. I can pick which country I will represent too. Unfortunately, the U.S. is not an option so I had to go with Argentina. |
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| M&Ms in German colors |
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| Even the library! |
I received an email a few weeks ago from the administrators at my school. They rescheduled one of our Spring music concerts because it happened to be the night of the opening game. Mind you, the opening game is a match between Brazil and Croatia (not Germany) and it doesn't occur until 10pm local time. It apparently takes several hours for people to prepare for the opening game.
With the U.S.'s meager chances of making it out of the group stage, the little I could do is support them from Germany (For those not following soccer, the U.S. and Germany are in the same group this year! They play each other on Thursday, June 23.) Unfortunately, my U.S.A. women's soccer jersey doesn't fit very well these days. It will get worse as June 23 approaches, unless the little one decides to come early. However, Damian is "coaching" the little one, trying to convince it to arrive 10 days after the due date (July 14th) so his World Cup viewing is uninterrupted. :)
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| Wearing my U.S. women's soccer jersey. Note how I'm bigger than the official World Cup size 5 soccer ball. |
I'm sure there will be future World Cup posts...
Go U.S.A. (and Argentina and Germany)!
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