La Gran Jugada Que No Fue

Honduras had their big match Wednesday and I broke out all the stops to get a good spot to watch it! This is the first game for the preliminatory group phase of the 2010 World Cup. Honduras pulled a pretty good group, which includes Canada, Jamaica, and Wednesday's opponent….Mexico! This first game of the 6 game round was played in Mexico City at Azteca Stadium. It’s just a small little 110,000 seater or something like that. But it wasn’t too bad, cause 4,000 seats were reserved for Honduras fans (do the math on that ratio). I went to a church friend Nulfo’s house along with my two friends who had just arrived from Edmonds, David and Cody.
The game starts with big hopes for Honduras as about a half hour into the game it’s still 0-0 and Honduras has a decent free kick for Rambo. No joking, Rambo plays for Honduras, striking fear into the hearts of all enemies.:) Rambo takes the perfect free kick over the wall curving to the left off the crossbar and down into the goal! 1-0! Fireworks are going off outside, people yelling and shouting in their houses up and down the street. We start making comments about how great the ref is and into half time ahead, whew! Fireworks keep going off outside for the next 20 minutes or so. Then with about 20 minutes left in the game Mexico starts getting closer, and closer, and closer to scoring. There’s a couple shots off the post, a shot blocked, a cross tipped away. Honduras then ALMOST puts away it’s second goal….unfortunately for Honduras they missed the second goal and Mexico scored quickly after making it 1-1…no more fireworks…no more smiles…no more compliments for the ref…About 5 minutes later and Mexico gets awarded a free kick scoring their second goal. To make matters worse Honduras gets a red card and all we can say is, “que mierda este arbitro.” If you don’t know Spanish, just leave it as an insult for the ref…:) So the big game that almost was…wasn’t…there’s still lots of games and Mexico comes here in October or November for the final group game. We’ll take our revenge then…