Tuesday, May 29, 2007

FIFA bans high-altitude international matches


Bolivia are screwed. No more matches at their stadium that sits 3,600 meters (just under 12,000 feet) above sea level...
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=434361&cc=5901

And a classic Sepp Blatter comment:
"People said then that Americans didn't know what football was, but we taught them."

1 comment:

Bobbie BS said...

Too bad they didn't make it 5000 feet so the Azteca would be shut down.