The soccer game – Anna

The soccer game was awesome. We ordered a taxi and while we were waiting for it to arrive we got our Medellin shirts on. When the taxi pullled up in front of our hostel, we all were wondering were on earth we were supposed to go when we got there. The only directions we had was to go to the red zone and we were like “ huh?” So we got out of the taxi and walked around the red zone.  The red zone and the green zone were different zones that you had to go in depending on which team you were chearing for. This was so that the two teams  wouldn’t fight. The teams were the Medellin team vs the Columbian team so it was a big deal. We finally found our friends from Blink the Spanish school that we were going to and had dinner with them. After dinner we headed towards the stadium. In line we were so excited but then we heard the bad news.The zone that we had got our tickets for was a zone for fourteen years and older and they told us that we had to go to the family section. It was so frustrating. So when that issue was sorted we went to the family section.When the game started the players entered the stadium with some guys spraying blue and red smoke/paint. It was so cool! After that the game started there was a ton of footwork, a lot of injuries, and goals. Every time someone faked or actually got hurt, we would joke around that a Jeep would come on the field to get the injured one. They would bring him to the side line and he would jump out of the Jeep and run back onto the field and we would always say “oh there goes the ambulance”. At the end of the game, the final score was 2-1 for us. Woohoo! As we made our way out of the stadium, we saw some drunk people balancing on a safety bar on the highest level. If they had fallen they would be doomed.

No goal!