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Month: July 2024
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Euro Cup 2024 – A Casual Fan’s Impressions – Round of 16 Day 3 and Day 4
Euro ‘24 is behaving better than I thought it would. The Group Stage was highly entertaining, and on the whole, the Round of 16 has been the dramatic sporting event I was hoping for. Now, I recap:
Day 3
France v Belgium
I will say, I am still not very impressed with France. The match was fine, and I enjoyed it, but honestly, I am still not seeing a reason why France will win the whole thing.
Portugal v Slovenia
This was Great! When I think about about Big Time, Large Marque International Football, this is the type of match I hope for. It seemed like no mater what Ronaldo tried, it just wouldn’t work. I’m not a huge fan of his, but I do admit that he is one of the best, ever. This is most likely his last dance, and I did feel like he was putting it all out there. But Slovenia had a defensive answer for everything that Portugal threw at them. Except when it came to the shoot out when Diogo Costa, the Portugal goal keeper, had three of the most impressive stops the world has even seen. Never, never, never has anyone ever stopped three shoot out shots in a row. It was simply amazing! This match was a classic.
Day 4
Romania v Netherlands
The Dutch were all business and dispatched Romania. Not much drama here, and the Netherlands wants to make sure we haven’t forgot about them.
Austria v Turkey
Another fun match to watch. I did think going into this that Austria was going to win… But Turkey played a solid match.
Thoughts:
Well, I still think Germany Spain today will be the match of the tourament, and the winner will most likely win the whole thing. But, Portugal may just have elevated themselves into a contender. Looking forward to this weekend.
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I Mean, the 4th is Coming
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Pools are Open!
My kid loves to swim, and wants to swim all the time as soon as it starts getting hot out. That can be a rather tough request to fulfill, as we do live in New York City. There are beaches, and a Jersey Coast. There also happens to be lakes upstate, and New England does have many swimming holes. But those are all exercises for vacations. Speaking of vacations, we are at the age where if hotel doesn’t have pool, we have killed our child’s will to live.
Now, we have one great advantage in our neighborhood, which is that we are only a few blocks from the community pool. (There are two City services that make New York an amazing place to live; the first is the libraries, and the second is the City Park Service. They both don’t receive enough credit, nor enough funds.) We have an awesome pool that is run well, and is filled with kids. The window that these pools are open is short, normally 4th of July to Labor Day, and even by Labor Day, it can start getting cool out.
This year the pools opened a week early, and we would have been there if the kid didn’t get a nasty Summer cold last week. BUT, today we were all healthy and headed out, to jump and splash around. And being that this is our fifth year of doing this, I’ve started looking forward to going. It’s part of our Summer, either early mornings, or late afternoons at the pool; The kid does make swimming friends, who we will only see at the pool, and never anywhere else in the neighborhood. I get some quality reading done while lounging in the plastic Adirondack chairs, while keeping on eye on the kids screaming and splashing.
Pools are open. Have fun and stay cool.
