As most of my regular readers know as well as friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter, I love soccer. Since June 11th, I have been working late at night, early in the morning, on weekends, and between matches because I’m trying to watch as many World Cup games as I can. I think I will be completely worn out and ready to sleep for a week come July 12th ;-)

The funny thing though is that most of my life I hated watching sports (except for figure skating) and actively avoided getting involved. I didn’t enjoy playing them very much either. It was ok in junior high when I went to a tiny school and everyone could play whether they were any good or not. But my first two years of high school I went to a private school where you had to participate in a least one team sport – it was done instead of PE classes.  Continue …