We landed in Mrs. PZ’s hometown. A mid-sized midwest city. I’d basically given up on being the chance of watching a match in an ale house of some kind. I grew up with the belief that soccer is a social sport. You watch it with friends…or at least cool strangers. However, it didn’t seem to be possible here.

So I go to lunch at this restaurant/bar near my office. They have ESPN playing in the background (no volume) and the ticker at the bottom of the screen says Ronaldnho signed a 5-year, $116 deal to join Chelsea at the end of the year. So, I get back to the office and (in between phone calls and emails) I search for more information. I can’t find anything…just stuff about his frequenting nightclubs in Barcelona (can’t blame him…I’ve spent a week there once and the nightclubs were …