Well, I'm headed off to Baltimore for the weekend to catch one of the friendly matchups bein the World Football Challenge, pitting AC Milan from Italy's top division, Serie A, versus Chelsea of the English Premier League. The WFC is a series of friendly matches being played out on US soil with some of the world's best football teams. For tomorrow night's game, being a Manchester United fan, of course I'll be pulling for anyone but Chelsea.
There's five of us making the trip, and I think one of the five, Ricky, was the only one that that broke down for a Milan shirt. We will probably end up, many a beer into tailgating, painting M-I-L-A-N on our chests, like the frat boys we used to be. Well, like they used to be.
The WFC has been extremely popular thus far, with all games involving Inter Milan, Club America, Chelsea, and AC Milan being sellouts, and the Baltimore matchup is a sellout of over 71,000, fans. There isn't going to be any David Beckham for Milan, as he is tied up in a love-hate relationship with the LA Galaxy in the MLS for the time being, but let's hope for Milan's sake, Ronaldinho shows up.
Enjoy the weekend.
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