{"id":83,"date":"2002-06-13T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-13T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-01-18T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:40:38","slug":"spain-v-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/06\/13\/spain-v-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain v. South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glow
\nGlowing footballs for sale outside the stadium<\/p>\n

FLH headed off to Taejon for this final game of the group, anticipating a lively encounter between two teams playing great football. South Africa needed a draw, and I guessed they would come out with a will to win, while Spain had already qualified, and could relax into their game….<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Rob
\nRob Barton, our host in Seoul<\/p>\n

We decided to thank Rob B, who has been a fantastic help to us here in Korea, with a ticket to the game. His first ever game of football, it turned out. FLH is proving to be a vehicle for initiating people called Rob into the exhiliarating world of live football games.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Rob’s mother-in-law treated us to a delicious home-cooked Korean meal at her home in Taejon, and afterwards we hopped in a taxi, and joined the traffic jam inching its way to the stadium.<\/p>\n

\"A
\nA Spanish drinker in the VIP lounge<\/p>\n

For us, it was corporate hospitality again. (name withheld) has been a genius at getting us tickets for the games that we were interested in – and again came up with the goods for us. Rob was, I think, quite overwhelmed by the occasion, as he’d not been in that kind of formal environment for a long time. He’s been living here in Korea for a couple of years, and before that was in North Korea as an aid worker. A table full of smoked salmon reminded him suddenly of his time as an intern in Washington DC, and another world.<\/p>\n

After the game, we were interviewed by Mark Tompkins, who is filming a video diary for UEFA during the tournament. We’d had just a little too much corporate hospitality to be anything other than stilted in our delivery, but if you want to see the interview, click this link<\/a> an choose the video diary entitled “Mark Tompkins explores Daejon ahead of Spain’s match against South Africa.” You’ll need the Real Video Player to view it.<\/p>\n

Later on, Phil went off filming fans… while Rob helped me recover from my interview nerves with a helpful glass of Chivas Regal. Here are some of the things that Phil captured:<\/p>\n

Spanish bullfighting supporter<\/b>
\nclick here to download the MPEG movie clip<\/a><\/p>\n

South African trumpeter<\/b>
\nclick here to download the MPEG movie clip<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Spanish
\nSpanish ladies dress with style<\/p>\n

\"South
\nSouth African flag in the stadium<\/p>\n

\"A
\nA fan filming as they leave on the bus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Glow
\nGlowing footballs for sale outside the stadium<\/p>\n

FLH headed off to Taejon for this final game of the group, anticipating a lively encounter between two teams playing great football. South Africa needed a draw, and I guessed they would come out with a will to win, while Spain had already qualified, and could relax into their game….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea"],"geo":{"latitude":36.316093399999999746796675026416778564453125,"longitude":127.4316558999999955403836793266236782073974609375,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}