Day Thirty-Seven

Day 37, originally uploaded by canucklehead07.

It almost seemed as if everyone on campus skipped classes to watch the Spain – Germany World Cup match today. The photo above only shows one-fourth of the actual crowd gathered around the one television at the cafe. Today was the largest crowd yet.

Both teams were fairly represented among my fellow peers, but it seemed the Spaniards had more fans (like me for one).

Go Spain!



later days,

Day Twenty-One

Day 21, originally uploaded by canucklehead07.

Watched Spain defeat Honduras today. Wore one of my many soccer shirts. Today: Spain’s Marcha Real (“The Royal March”).



later days,

Man killed by family for watching World Cup

Good grief! A 61-year-old man in South Africa was allegedly beaten to death because he wanted to change the channel to watch a World Cup match!

Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.

David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

“He said, ‘No, I want to watch soccer,'” police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. “That is when the argument came about.

“In that argument, they started assaulting him.”

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

“It appears they banged his head against the wall,” Malefo said. “They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead.”

All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.

Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.

“He was always a happy man, never violent,” Makoeya’s nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. “On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral.”

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And I thought my family was bad! This is just absurd. Guys (and gals), just next time, put the remote control down and walk away… slowly.

Well, at least he didn’t get to see Australia get beaten 4-0.

later days,

Day Ten

 

Are you excited for the World Cup? I AM!

Just to think my amateur Olympic pin-collecting days were over, Fifa World Cup stole me away again.

I hope there are more of these free World Cup pins around to add to my collection.

 

later days,