Where Will He Live: One Fan Chooses Home By The World Cup Winner

May 19th, 2010 | by: chris |

World Cup Countries 2010

It sounds like a decent concept – that or a drunken bet – doesn’t it: promising to live in the country which wins the World Cup. The World Cup would become part insanity, part crippling fear – as if it needed to add any more to the laundry list of mental anguishes.

One man from Portland, Oregon is doing it, which sounds like fun until you consider he doesn’t particularly want to move. Therefore he just might be the biggest US fan on the sphere come June 11th.

Barry Biechner is that man:

So on July 11th 2010 I will learn what country I will be moving to.

Yes, that’s right. I have decided to move to the country that wins this years World Cup.

After the completion of the tournament I will have until the end of the year to get my things in order and move to the winning country. It may be earlier but it must be by the first of the next year.

During an interview he makes his stance known – God bless America…and its national team.

Although he’s trying to stay neutral for the sake of the blog, Biechner is rooting for the United States. “But I don’t think they’ll win. History has at least shown that. It would certainly be the most convenient [if the United States wins],” he says. Biechner says he will try to follow through on his promise even if the winner is a country where he doesn’t want to live. He mentioned North Korea, which is also in the tournament. “No one wants to live there [but] I’d embrace it as just an experiment and do the best I can.”

North Korea have politely declined Barry’s presence in their country.

At first, it sounds like absolute absurdity; the type of thing which will see Barry enter the Witness Protection Program by the knockouts so that he doesn’t have to go through with it.

But then you have a little think as to where he’ll actually be moving. Barring an enormous upset, he’ll either be moving to Western Europe – Spain, England, Holland, Germany, Italy, France, etc – or Brazil. Maybe Argentina if Diego gets his shit together/forgets to show up.

To be honest, that doesn’t sound so bad. In fact, Barry might just be starting the biggest trend since social networking – and this is one I can actually get with.

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Blanda_Amania

How exciting! I'm sure if North Korea allowed him in he wouldn't even be allowed pee without someone watching him, but he sounds like a gamer to me. I'm gonna follow this. Super cool.
The_Alchemist

That's pretty cool, would be even cooler if he had only six days to prepare. Hope he speaks Spanish…

The idea is actually worth a life-long project. Starting at the of 18 I would have had to move to Argentina, then Germany, Brazil, France, Brazil, and Italy. How old am I?

Even cooler would be if you had to move to the host country two years in advance to the final tournament and then move to the winner's country for another two years. That means for me: Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Germany, USA, Brazil, France (and stay there), Japan / South Korea, Brazil, Germany, Italy, South Africa. You could accumulate some airmiles as well as languages.
soccerroo

The_Alchemist you should be 42 and not sure what Argentina's economy was like back then but your could have lived in some great places and experinced the reunification of Germany during you time there.

I love this guys idea but i think my lack of language skills would make it very difficult.
The_Alchemist

Bingo. The Argentinian economy would not have bothered me as much as the machine guns outside the stadiums.
Bense235

Let's just hope for him that North Korea is not gonna win that bad boy trophy. They will do that anyways. In THEIR newspapers.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656021248 Nathan Timothy Stellhorn

Barry You Rock!