Field Trip Report - Slovakia v USA
du Nord, December 2, 2009
Got a great post for you from regular reader Anthony Ives who lives in Glasgow Scotland. I love these kind of stories!Two weekends ago, 15 other US soccer fans and I travelled from London, Cambridge, Prague, Vienna, and even Illinois to Bratislava to cheer on the US in their friendly v Slovakia. While it doesn’t show up on most travelers’ hit list, Bratislava turned out to be a great place to spend a weekend as it has an interesting mix of old world charming churches and former Habsburg palaces, lots of graffiti covered socialist era cinder block buildings, and really tasty and cheap beer and gut warming food. We took full advantage of the latter as we all met up before the game at the Slovak Pub in the city center to enjoy a few litres of pilsner, garlic soup, and pierogis and get ready to cheer on the Yanks. After some lively debates of who should replace Charlie Davies and whether John O’Brien was better than Claudio Reyna, it quickly became apparent that most of the group would be earning their first cap