AKA The Day That The Netherlands Beat Mighty Brazil 2 To 1 In The 2010 World Cup Quarter Finals. And also known as the hottest Dutch day in 2010 so far. After attending the end-of-the-school-year formalities at school my colleagues and I sped to a small, dark student café downtown to witness the inevitable downfall of the national football team in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. We hadn't won from the 5-time world champions since 1974. After the first ten minutes Brazil headed 1 to 0. The next eighty minutes were spent biting nails and screaming in a crowded and incredibly hot bar, but we made one goal, and then another one, and we actually beat Brazil after ninety minutes! Utrecht went NUTS!!! Strangers were hugging each other, drunk people jumped into the canals (no doubt filled with rusted bikes and other things you don't even want to think about - I hope they get a tetanus shot tomorrow), men ran the streets barefoot with dozens of beer cans in their arms, the Neude (the busiest square in Utrecht) was taken over by soccer fans, blocking the streets and climbing into the street lights. I usually don't care about soccer, but this was AWESOME!!!
Naturally, I was far too wound up to actually cook something myself, so I bought gazpacho and potato gratin at the now-famous catering place, just to celebrate that THE NETHERLANDS BEAT BRAZIL AND WILL BE PLAYING IN THE HALF FINALS ON TUESDAY WWWAAAHHH!!!*
* In Dutch we call this kind of behavior 'oranjekoorts' or orange fever.
1 comment:
Nur, wat cool dat je gewoon in de binnenstad was!:) Het was wel gaaf, Rien en ik liepen net van de AH terug naar huis toen de eerste goal voor NL viel. Daarvoor hadden we niet eens binnen hoeven zitten, want je hoorde buiten letterlijk overal vandaan gejuig en tig vuvuzela's tegelijkertijd, plus constant auto getoeter en gejuich na de wedstrijd:) Ik ben heel benieuwd wat de rest van dit WK nog gaat brengen.. Kus Mar
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