world cup dementia

only peter seems aware, and wary, of the impending madness about to enter this bar

it has been, regardless of where i've lived, a tradition of mine since college to gather friends together on the thursday night of every week for a drink. as you'll see from the photos below, this thursday actually was just a 24-hour friday of futbol (soccer) and soju mayhem...

the 2006 world cup in germany is only 12 months away and qualifying games are held to determine which of the 32 nations will make it. the world cup is my favorite sporting event and i follow it--and its qualifying--with undisguised passion and fervor. korea is currently involved in the final stage of asian qualifying and there were, at the time of the photo above, three games remaining. korea are fairly comfortable and confident of qualifying, but each of the three games left are crucial and they could still be left watching on the sofa, like yours truly will be.

korea's next game was the friday in question above, june 3rd, 2005, and this is the story of the game, our preparation for it, and the activities that followed.