Saturday

We spent the day watching partidos (games) between kids from the ages of 7 all the way to the B team.  The whole experience of what we have seen and learned in priceless.  This will benifit me as a coach more than getting every USSF soccer license available.  We are heading to the Super Classico right now.  The match starts at 10:15.  As of 8:00 the sidewalks are packed and spilling over into the streets.  Every bar we walked by is packed out the door and every one is singing at the top of the lungs.  Every car you walk by is honking their horns.  If you are wearing a Real Madrid scarf or anything close you will get a beating.  We have on 3 sweat pants each and 5 layers up top and it just started raining too.  Probably cold enough to snow by game time.  As gametime approaches, they tell us the streets will be packed side to side.  It looks like times square on new years eve.  I attached a couple pics from the games today.  I attached one of the first girl I saw in any games.  She was a stud and wore #9 and scored the only goal in the friendly that they played against a local club.  She was 9 years old.  There are less than 10 girls in the whole escola.

Ciao