Soccer Game!

Last night, I went to my first professional soccer game ever which is ironic because I was in England and Scotland a few years with my high school soccer team and although we played soccer, they never took us to a professional soccer game. The experience of a soccer game was absolutely amazing. We walked about forty five minutes to the stadium with the Florence For Fun group and had seats behind one of the goals. The game was Florence vs. Milan and we knew going into it that Milan was the better team and would probably dominate the game, however in the first half Florence was definitely dominating the field and Gilardino scored in the first half. (I was wearing his jersey too because when I went to buy a jersey, the shop owner told me that he was their best striker and sure enough he was). So, at the end of the first half, the score was 1-0 Florence. Then towards the end of the second half, Milan scored to tie the game 1-1. We were pretty sure the game was going in to overtime but yet again Milan scored with only a few minutes left in the game and ended up winning the game 2-1. I had hope for Florence but Milan was just a better team. David Beckham plays for Milan and was at the game, I was even able to get some pictures of him warming up but he never actually played. The stadium was filled with Firenze fans with one small section full of passionate Milan fans. The Firenze fans get really into the game and yell chants, and whistle, and even do this little bobble thing with they hop up and down but their feet never actually leave the ground. The people in front of us had huge flags and would wave them whenever Florence performed well on the field. I am so happy that I got to experience an actual professional soccer game... it was a great night even if Florence did lose.