Media

Hi,
The weather here in Ottawa today sucks, freezing rain, wind, it feels like someone is constantly throwing stones at you when you go outside!

I meant to mention this awhile ago, it's a few months old, but well worth complaining about. First, an obvious question: what's the most popular, nation-uniting game in the world? Obviously, soccer, right? It's never been all that big here in Canada, because of our 10-month winters (see p. 1), but it has been catching on. We see all the World Cup games on TV, and even get a "game of the week" on Saturday mornings, from the English Premier league. The Euro championship is also big here, the one that happens every 4 years, alternating with the world cup. Even FA cup matches from England, Italian league games, Spain and Portugual.

What about South America? Did any of you know that back in December of 2006, Internacional of Porto Alegre, Brazil, beat Barcelona from Spain to win the "World Cup of club teams"? It was NOWHERE in ANY of the media here. Maybe it's my biased opinion, because I used to live in Porto Alegre, but I can't help but thinking if the mighty Barça had won, it would be known here.

How come we only hear about European soccer? After all, where do you think most of the players come from?

beijos