Soooo close!!!

Watching the world cup games late at night during the work week was awesome, at least that is how I felt before struggling to wake up for work a few hours later. The tournament is far from over, but my world cup dreams were shattered when Japan barely lost to Paraguay last night. The feeling was worse than when the US team lost to Ghana in overtime. The Japanese had it in their grasp and it all came down to penalty shots. I knew from the way both teams were playing that as long as the Japanese players didn't go fancy with their penalty shots they had a very good chance to make all of them. However, Komano totally choked and decided to take that extra risk to shoot the ball so it would go right under the crossbar, instead it hit the cross bar and the goalie didn't have to do anything to get the miss. From that point, everyone knew it was over for Japan. I feel bad for the guy, but really, I felt worst for the other players like Tulio who gave their heart and soul to try to advance to the elite 8. Its a good thing Japan has banned guns in the country, because I'm pretty sure even though Japanese people won't outright admit it, they must be fuming pissed at Komano. I know I was. Oh well, this emotional roller coaster is what the World Cup is all about. It was really fun while it lasted and I will definitely miss going "Blue Samurai" crazy in Tokyo.