Turkish Delight

I'm sure only like 2 people that read this blog are going to find this remotely interesting...but whatever... :)

Last night was our 12th night in of watching Euro cup games. The Turkey-Croatia game gave us an intense ending. The previous game Turkey played was pretty intense. They seem to do really well at the last minute under pressure. Last night was no different. I was certain Croatia was going to win, but my heart was rooting for Turkey. I enjoyed watching the team play and I'm always a little bias to countries that I have visited and enjoyed. I assumed Turkey was a lost cause.

The game ran its full 90 minutes with no goals from either side. A winner was needed since it was a quarter-final game. The game went on to two extra 15 minute periods taking the game to 120 minutes.

This is what happened the final 1.5 minutes of the 120 minute game
Croatia=Blue
Turkey=Red

Turkey, as I mentioned above, proved again to play well under pressure and at the last second. There was an extra 1 minute added to the game time and in the very last second of that one minute, this is what happened

WOW! Two hours of game time for two goals in the final minute and a half!
So, finally, after 12 days/16 games we got to see a shoot out!

I was so so so happy for Turkey!!! What a game! Denmark has a large Turkish population and when we moved here in 2002 the World Cup was going on. We were in the city the night of a big game that Turkey won and were amazed of the parades of cars and people marching around chanting, singing,listening to loud music and sporting the Turkish flag. I think we had been here about 2 weeks and found it amusing to see for the first time, people go nuts over a soccer game! We couldn't help but wish we had been in Copenhagen last night wondering if there were giant flags being marched around the city.

Unfortunately, I think Germany is going to eat them alive at the next game...

As we were crawling into bed I snapped a shot of the not pitch black sky

12:09 AM