| Andrew's Stagiere Blog - Heading to Finland!! To the Lucky Owl!! |
| Tuesday, 11 September 2007 | |
 Tuesday, Sept 11, 2007Sitting at the Frankfurt airport waiting for my flight. It is 1:45pm and I fly to Helskinki at 2:15pm. Salia a parent from Finland of a boy named Yusef I coach in Petaluma United , and I have been talking for several weeks about this big match. She explained how this is the biggest sporting event since the Olympics in Helskinki . Finland has never qualified for a major tournament in soccer. World Cup and European Cup are the major tournaments. This is the closest they have ever come and the entire country is behind the team. Even the lucky owl!! Salia told me about how this owl comes to the stadium only for football and not track and field or other sports. It goes away and seems to come back and sit on the goal for the Finnish National Football Team. |
