Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Football


I am looking forward to a bit of Iberian Pig Ham and a great Cider to go with my Paella.Yum!

The question is, what is Spain really famous for? It's not such an easy answer. Unlike its EU Cousins Italy, Germany and France. Spain from a South African point of view is quite unknown.
I can give you many reasons to travel to France or Italy, even The Netherlands. Just find a cheese guru and a stoner and your set.

But we are set on Spain, well actually I am. My amigos may need some more convincing. So this is our Journey to discover what this nation is about. It will be our FIFA world cup Build-up to 3 spectacular weeks (We hope?) in a nation that, so far is famous for Cider, Paella and the Iberian Black Pig.

Moving on to football...

Football or soccer as it is also known, was introduced in the late 1800's when a couple of Migrating Englishman, a few bored sailors and some Spanish students returning from their studies in Britain started playing the game in Spain. So this began the Spanish love affair with the game which has become the nations most popular sport.

Well a whole lot of stuff happened between the 1800's and 1927, its all "yawn" material. Then Some dude, Alvaro Trejo proposed a national football league be created. Enter, LA LIGA!

Now we get the pleasure of watching some of the best Club's in the World. The most popular, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. My favorite, Barcelona!

Oh, and if your not aware. Spain just won the 2010 World cup in South Africa!!

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