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Friday, 14 July 2006 |
CANADA EH? - By Rasmus Bonde Stouby
"When we walked through that door..." headcoach Matt Cone said in an attempt to put words on a bubbly feeling about arriving at the world games, "...Coach
Dave and I both had little erections..."
"Mine wasn't little!" defensive coach Dave Piechowski quickly followed up. "It was huge," he said with a growl.
Today we arrived at the college dorm that will be our home for the remainder of the world games. The Iroquois national team was there before us and team
Australia arrived just after us. Those who did not have hard blood, walking through that front door, is either ladies or just plain dead.
The hallways and in fact this whole area, is littered with lacrosse players yapping away in wierd tongues that phonetically sounds like everything from
singing to complicated throat diseases. Also rumors and news fly by with the speed of excitement. Finland and Germany scrimmaged 3-6 in Germany's favor! Then
vivid discusions on whether this is good or bad news followed. well, they did lose... but Germany is a great team!
I think our coach might be into voodoo or perhaps it is the jedi mind-thing again, but some serious news came our way upon arrival. First of all the Bermuda
and Spain is to be considered scrimmage games. Neither of them are full members of the ILF (International Lacrosse Foundation) so they can't advance into the
playoffs. that leaves the yellow division (ours) with just Czech, Finland and Denmark. But wait a second! Czech doesn't want to play only one good match
(i.e. Finland), so now they've switched places with Latvia from orange division. Letvia picked up lacrosse a couple of years ago and don't have any lacrosse
-since-childhood players on their team (usualy those are US or Canadian).
Yes that's right. "All" we have to do, is beat Finland and Latvia to move on to play the second place finisher from the blue division (USA and Canada's
division). Since Finland have beat us both the times we've met them in resent history (however close), they must be considered favorites to win the prize:
The honor of being beaten senceless by a blue division team! We will do what we can to put a stick in Finland's wheel though.
The official strategy/philosophy is still One Love; the have fun strategy.
Water broke from the sky fifteen minutes before we headed out for a light afternoon training. Apparently all the other teams cancelled practice because of
the rain. It was like a warm shower, but outside. I like the north american summer rain much better than the cold stuff we have back home all the time.
We've been settled in nice big appartments with four sepperate rooms, a kitchen and two bathrooms in each. As an extra bonus my appartment has a TV. Well
that was until the kids stole it (you know, the teenagers on the team who drink a little more than they should).
We found out who the culprits were right away because they'd told everyone about their scheme. The TV has been retrieved and mass-communication safely restored. |
