What a day, what a pace. There are 2 postings- the games and the closing.
Team USA and Team Kosovo joined to form one International Team to take on the Brits, Germans and French in soccer and volleyball.
In addition to the rivalry on receiving the bid for the 2012 Olympics there has been heightened rivalry between the UK and French and the UK and the US. Our team chose to hold the high road and not engage in tormenting dialogue--it's been a good plan and proud strategy.
It was good soccer weather, held at the same venue as the 4th World Dwarf Games Opening Ceremonies last Friday. In soccer our International Team beat France 5 - 4 with fast break away goals by Eddie Andrews and good half and goalie playing by men from Team Kosovo. The UK beat the German/Denmark team, which led to the Gold game of US/Kosovo v. UK.
Between each game the massage therapist stopped by to work on players suffering from muscle spasms...one toll over the long week of games. Our Kosovo halfback was kept out of the gold medal game by a sore thigh muscle. That put Ted into the goal position. Although he hasn't played goalie for years he did very well; Knocking balls over the net and directing his defense. The goals were about 42 inches tall but 15 feet wide--- so there was no way to cover the whole goal area. Team UK brought a strong, fast and balanced 5 player team. They scored within the first minute of play. The fast breaks Team USA/Kosovo used to beat the French earlier did not work against the UK. There were several close goals but the UK really was the stronger team. Final score 2 - 0. Team USA/Kosovo got the gold. France the Bronze and UK the Gold.
Volleyball was a different story. Team USA/Kosovo crushed all competitors- UK, France, Germany/Denmark in the adult games and the kids got silver. It is amazing that we have so many talented athletes coming from such a widely dispersed area- California, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Florida, New Jersey, Wisconsin, New Mexico and who dominated so well in soccer, volleyball, swimming, track/field, ping pong, etc.
Last games over; Last medals handed out ... now on to the closing
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