world cup thread

[--Pete]

Hi,

So I don't really follow the sport closely (I don't follow most sports closely) . . .

I don't really follow sports at all.

. . . but I do understand the game, . . .

I don't. Two teams, one goalie and ten players each, no hands. That's about all I know about it.

. . . I played a few years, . . .

When I first got to Boeing, there were some twenty-somethings I was working with. After I beat them at racket ball a few times, they invited me to join their soccer team. I asked them how long it took to get good at soccer. They said ten years. I asked them how many good fifty year old soccer players they knew (I was 40 at the time). They said none. I said screw it. And that's the full chapter on my soccer career in my autobiography.

--Pete