Forca Barca!

Tonight is the Champions' League final between Barcelona and Manchester United, so I'm heading over the the Mbassy to watch. I've been reading both Soccernet in English and Marca in Spanish, and they have correspondingly different takes on the outcome of the clash.

Anyway, I'll be rooting for Barca since 1) I'm sick of English teams winning everything, and 2) Thierry Henry gave Arsenal many good years, so I want him to win.

Addendum: Barca wins 2-0! It feels great to pick the right bandwagon.

Victory!

The Irish embassy in Krakow is not actually an embassy at all, but instead is perhaps more appropriately a pub called the Irish Mbassy. A watering hole for English-speaking expats and visitors, the Mbassy has three floors full of wide-screen televisions and draws crowds by showing sports games, mostly soccer.

They also sponsor their own team in the Cracow Sunday Football League! I was fortunate enough to find out about this and join up for the last 5 or 6 games of the season. The level is reasonably good - just last week, we were lucky to come away with a 3-0 loss to Kadra GAP. This team apparently has 3 former professionals as well as this dapper gentleman.

Anywho, we finally pulled out a 4-2 victory over Vamos! this morning. It felt really good, but I'm super that my camera is out of commission because I wanted to have some pictures for you guys. The field is right on the Vistula river, it was a beautiful day, and there was a 5k race going on right around the Planty. Anyway, stay tuned and eventually you'll get to see how beautiful Krakow is. In the meantime, I highly recommend checking it out on Google Maps or Google Earth.