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\"Football<\/center>
\nOnly one more week to wait. The 2006 FIFA World Cup<\/strong> is scheduled to begin in Germany on June 9th. 32 football (soccer) teams will face off in the most popular sporting event in the world. An estimated 5 million fans from all over the world will be visiting Germany for the 4 week long competition. In addition, there will probably be over a billion<\/em> viewers watching around the world!Ok, so Canada didn’t make it this time. It’s “a team in development”. So we’ll be cheering on Mexico, with some secondary cheering for a few other countries as well. Canada is actually represented on England’s team by someone from Calgary no less – Owen Lee Hargreaves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Owen is a midfielder.<\/p>\n

In Spanish speaking countries, this has been an opportunity for some of our friends to make use of special World Cup tracts. If you’re from Canada, you may be rolling your eyes – tracts?!<\/em> Yes, believe it or not, in places like Mexico tracts can be very effective. People really read them, and actually talk to you about them. And remember, many of these people have never actually heard the Gospel before.<\/p>\n

To the right you can see part of the tract – I think it translates into something like the plan of the World-Wide One<\/em>, but ask me again after I finish my Spanish classes.<\/p>\n

Remember Bryan Smith, the CAM missionary we worked with in Quer\u00c3\u00a9taro? He recently wrote a blog about the excitment of a local game, and the opportunity to hand out tracts – read Soccer Excitement!<\/a><\/p>\n

A fellow missionary pointed out some spreadsheets you can use if you want to keep track of your favourite teams in the World Cup. Check out his list of spreadsheets here<\/a>. They’re pretty neat.<\/p>\n

Interesting facts about this year’s FIFA World Cup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • The top ranked team is Brasil<\/li>\n
  • 12 cities in Germany will be hosting the games<\/li>\n
  • 7 teams have never played in the World Cup before<\/li>\n
  • You can get a nifty Yahoo! Widget for the World Cup here<\/a> (you need to download the free widget engine<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Freddie Ljungberg from the Swedish team is concerned that migraine attacks could knock him out of the World Cup<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Visit the Official FIFA World Cup Site<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Brasil won the last World Cup in 2002, beating Germany<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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