My Footballers

Our summer vacation has been dominated by the World Cup. We have arranged weekends and day trips around the game times. Even though the US team has been eliminated, we are still dedicated to watching the semi-finals this week. The boys are watching just as much of it as I am. Well, at least Evan is. Keagan won't sit and watch a game on TV unless it has gone into penalty kicks.

The boys have been captivated by the turn of events caused by injuries, the underdogs who have surprised us all by winning their brackets, and the never ending debates concerning yellow cards and stoppage time. So much so that they have created their own World Cup tournament groups.

They used the scores in each game, of which they played themselves for the last month, and created quarter final brackets and semi-final brackets. 

Today the boys were in a hurry to leave the water park. I still needed thirty more minutes to soak up as much sun as possible, but the boys couldn't wait to get home and play the final game: US vs Russia.

Later this afternoon, I found them in the neighborhood shared green space with their orange cones playing the final game. The good news is US beat Russia and neither boy "took it easy on the opposing team." I still haven't quite figured out how they can both play for the same team and play for the opposing team at the same time, but winning the finals, according to the boys anyway, was a great feat! I couldn't argue with that!