Lately, every year come November Busch Stadium has been hosting a soccer match in the baseball crazy town of St Louis. I went to one of these games over 2 years ago; Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Argentina. It made my youngest sister a Messi and Argentina fan all in one night. And since St Louis is home to nearly 70000 Bosnians it made a lot of sense. I must be honest I was surprised to start seeing so many soccer matches around town. It was around the time of this game that I first was interested by soccer.
When I was living in France, it was rugby that was popular not soccer. Toulouse has a decent soccer team but a fantastic rugby team. So it wasn’t until a few years ago I started watching professional soccer.
This year I was so excited because the Men’s US team was going to come to St Louis! That is just the kind of thing that doesn’t happen often. I was even more excited when I saw that the tickets could be bought at a reasonable price. The cheaper tickets went from about 50 to 100 dollars. Just enough for me and my baby sister, Becca, who really isn’t a baby anymore, to go.
We were definitely high up in the stands but in my own opinion I like being farther away in soccer so I can see the whole field. I must say it was an amazing game. We started by giving away a goal but dominated the rest of the game.
St Louis is really a beautiful place with the Arch and our newly done Busch Stadium. We saw a lot of good plays and the excitement that is at a soccer game is really unmatched to any other game I’ve ever been too excepting maybe rugby. Between the chanting, the screaming, the drums and the excitement. When you are at a soccer game everyone is friendly and like family. You all scream together at a big goal, you chant together, you stand together when the excitement becomes to much and you groan at the errors and bad calls. And like all good soccer games there was at least one injury escorted off of the field.
St Louis is slowly becoming known as a great soccer town. There were 43,333 people at the stadium that night. The largest game in the state of Missouri ever!
It was a great game. And as we left I took a couple of great shots of downtown St Louis at night which is quite beautiful.
The night ended by us going to Insomnia Cookies, which is you ever have a sweet tooth they have the most amazing, huge, perfect cookies ever!
I hope St Louis starts hosting more and more of these events. To end I have a video of the American Outlaws chanting near the field. The drums, chanting and cheering always remind me of a heartbeat. Everyone working together as one unit.
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