Things have just gotten a little crazy in PLG. It took a lot of crazy results for it to happen, but the next game for the United States will be .... Ghana.This is kind of a worst-case scenario for me because I was really hoping to keep rooting for Ghana in the World Cup. Sadly, I can't do that anymore.
As readers of this blog know, Meytex Cafe is Ghana's Brooklyn World Cup headquarters. I was there last weekend for the Ghana - Australia game and even came home with a Ghana jersey. Sadly, I can't bring myself to go to Meytex this weekend to root against Ghana. I'd feel like the turd in the punchbowl - and if a lot people rooting for the US happen to show up at a Ghanaian restaurant to root against Ghana, well, that would be a lot of turds in a small punchbowl. I'm afraid that if PLGers rooting for the US take over Meytex it will ruin the one safe place for Ghanaians to gather and root on their Motherland. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise in the comments section.
Wherever you want to watch, on Saturday at 2:30, The Yanks will be facing the Black Stars to move on
to the Quarterfinals.
In other news, the downstairs apartment of the home of this blog is currently occupied by an Argentinian, a Mexican and their ArgeMexAmerican infant daughter. With all three teams on to the next round, the opening round has been a pretty good showing for Hawthorne Street Central.
US image via Getty Images/Kevork Djansezian; Ghana image via AP/Gero Breloer
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