USA vs Columbia 3 to 0

After our visit to the town of Heidelberg, it was on to Sinsheim for the match.  Hopefully all of you had a chance to see the game live back in the States.  The women played well, the stadium was fantastic and the seats were really wonderful.  The stadium was built specifically for soccer and holds a comfortable 25,000 or so fans.  The setting was really quite intimate and sitting in a predominately US section, Gundi, Mady and I enjoyed a wonderful victory for the US.



The name of the stadium is for the river that runs through
region



Gundi and Mady in a sea of Red, White and Blue



In addition to soccer, Sinsheim is also home to some of the manufacturing for the large Airbus manufacturing and Germany's version of our Smithsonian Air and Space museum.

After the match, Hope Solo came over to the US
Section and as you can see blew us a Kiss!



In this small stadium we were able to see everything from very close distance.  The end of the stadium that we sat in, was the end which the US was attacking in the first half.  For us is was so exciting because we were able to see all of the very close scoring opportunities that both Abby Wambaugh and Amy Rodriguez.  In fact we were so close, we could see the frustration, especially for Amy, I guess that is why she was replaced in the second half.

Congraulations to the US, we hope they have a similar result in Wolfsburg where they will play Sweden to detrmine the seeding for the quarterfinal matches.  Madyson and I will be there with Heidi's aunt and uncle. We will talk to everyone soon!