World Cup Soccer adventure: From Northern Maine to Qatar

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) – Soccer followers from everywhere in the world are in Qatar for the World Cup soccer event. Former College of Maine Fort Kent males’s basketball coach Tom Chicken attended three video games this week and stated the expertise has been one thing he’ll bear in mind for the remainder of his life.

Tom Chicken):”Being right here in a special tradition is one thing that I by no means skilled earlier than. It was actually superb to be round a ton of various nationalities. We stayed with an Indian household in Qatar. We rode a bus with any individual from Saudi Arabia, sat subsequent to a man from Wales, Simply met and talked with so many individuals from so many various nations. It was a life chancing expertise.”

Chicken not solely attended three video games, but in addition took in among the websites and tradition of the Nation and stated the individuals had been very welcoming

Chicken:” The individuals have been welcoming and really type.”

He did says there may be loads of safety within the cities and across the venues

Chicken:” Each crosswalk each highway, each metro every little thing you could possibly consider there have been a number of safety guards round and felt very protected.”

Chicken has been to loads of sports activities occasions over time, and this charges on the prime of the listing for the expertise

Chicken:” Been to some main sporting occasions and Closing Fours, however nothing that compares to the three video games I used to be at. I had by no means been to skilled soccer match, not to mention one with 60 thousand individuals. Bale made the penalty kick and so they hadn’t been to the World Cup since 1954. You had individuals sitting beside you in tears as a result of they had been so blissful to be there. Then they tie the mighty US workforce, it was an unbelievable expertise. The crowds had been simply unbelievable particularly at the moment’s sport with Morocco and Croatia. The group was filled with Moroccan Followers and simply chants and songs and it brings goosebumps.”

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