Brushes with World Cup Fame

After reading about Euler’s opportunity to meet with Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and Soze’s upcoming meeting with a legendary player (it is big, trust me), I was feeling a bit inadequate. The only celebrity I have met in the past year is a second rate comedian none of you even know, nor will you probably ever know because he isn’t especially funny. But just when I was beginning to despair, I remembered that I have, in fact, met a participant in this year’s World Cup. Name droppers rejoice!

It happened way back in 2002. I was sitting around in a parking lot after watching a game played in front of about 400 fans in Calgary, Canada. We were having a grand time when one of the players, Brent Sancho, walked by still wearing his game shorts. He proceeded to stop and ask us for a beer, which we gladly offered to him. We chatted with him a bit and he seemed to be quite appreciative of the postgame beverage.

Flash forward to 2006 and Brent Sancho is likely to be on the Trinidad and Tobago team in Germany, playing in front of crowds that will be slightly largely than 400 people and in a country with slightly better beer.

Here is your golden opportunity to do some name dropping of your own. Have you ever met any of the players or coaches in this year’s World Cup? Have you ever met any of the past greats? Go ahead, feel free to brag.

If you have any cool pictures of you rubbing shoulders with footballers can send them to me, bob [at] worldcupblog.org and I might just post a few.

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