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[Lumière]

Will check those out when I get home Anke! 
I am assuming the interviews are in English?  or...

[Giancarlo]

Yeah, Ecuador. That is going to be quite a task. And I don't really know whom to cheer for. Those people are so nice! 

This week I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to some journalists from Ecuador who are staying with their national team in Bad Kissingen right now. They are so happy there, it's amazing. The love it!

I just figured out how to post audio files, and I thought I should share this. Here's two of the guys I interviewed. One of them works for "Canal Uno", a big television company and the other for a monthly Ecuadorian sports magazine and the news agency "Reuters." The quality isn't quite what it was on the original recording, but I had to make a compromise in order to be able to upload longer sound bites...
Enjoy!

 

I myself lived in Ecuador for three years and can say they are very fanatical about the sport. They are quite difficult this time around..

[Pipedream]

Will check those out when I get home Anke! 
I am assuming the interviews are in English?  or...

They are. I'm no good at Spanish, ya know... 

[Sheyne]

Anke, your daughter is adorable!! So beautiful!

Cheers!

[Pipedream]

Thank you Sheyne! Cheeeeers!!!!!!!!!! 

[Sheyne]

Now THAT is a glass of beer! 

I love my Guinness.. but I wanna drink it from THAT glass..   

[Pipedream]

Now THAT is a glass of beer! 

I love my Guinness.. but I wanna drink it from THAT glass..   

Yeah, those glasses are nice. They are special glasses for "Weißbier," Bavarian wheat beer.
This one's my favourite at the moment. Germany has all gone soccer, ya know...

 

[Pipedream]

Ecuador - Costa Rica: 3:0 !!  

Ecuador and Germany made it to the round of the last sixteen in Group A.
Costa Rica and Poland can travel home. You gotta feel sorry for them!

Yeehaw!!! 



C’mere! 




Just sending up a prayer of thanks! 

[Giancarlo]

I knew it. Another one of my predictions that is correct.. I knew Ecuador was that good to get to the next round.

Trinidad is giving England problems right now...

Edit: Whoops, England got a goal... but still this is a sluggish performance on England's part.

[Giancarlo]

England - Trinidad: 2 - 0






After the first eighty minutes of scoreless playing, England finally got a goal in the 83rd minute, and an exhausted Trinidad allowed its defense to crumble allowing England to get a second goal. Again Trinidad's defense basically fell in the last ten minutes, and England basically capitalized on that. I'm still knowing that this performance was a bit sluggish on England's part, and I think England will face problems when it faces other European teams.