With a weekend of soccer having been upon us, it was quite a challenge to convince my daughter that watching the soccer is a lot more fun than watching Hanna Montana on Disney Channel. Her knowledge of soccer is extremely limited, knowing only about Manchester United - which every boy in her class seems to support, much to the irk of my partner who is a die-hard Liverpool fan. She seemed quite interested in the beginning of the Confederations Cup, when I explained about Bafana Bafana and talked about the various players, and she loved the shouting and screaming when someone got a goal, doing her own little victory dance. But after various 90 minute matches her enthusiam was definitely waning. In a last ditch attempt I scoured our area looking desperately to purchase a vuvuzela, but there were none to be found (a missed opportunity for many shops as it did not seem like I was the only one around trying to buy one). In the end she entertained herself by cutting pictures out of The Sunday Times while waiting for something exciting to happen when she could scream and shout and do her celebratory jig.
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I'm pretty sure that as your such an avid footie player yourself that no doubt your daughter will grow up to be one to. The VUvuzela will be a hook, line and sinker! Just you wait :) Lets hope she stays away from supporting the red devils and perhaps move on to support a better team - the Gunners! :) Nice blog btw!
ReplyDeleteI think any team will be better than the red devils, they have enough supporters anyway :) thanks
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