With seventeen minutes left in the France/USA semi-final, Eurosport analyst Emma Hayes was asked
if the game, already a classic, was going to extra-time. "We're going to extra-time," she declared,
"unless someone puts a good ball in and Abby (Wambach, USA's combative centre-forward) gets on the
end of it.
This is my second day in Frankfurt for the 2011 Women's Football Symposium (which begins tomorrow)
and Women's World Cup Final (on Sunday). It's been pretty low key so far and has given me a chance
to catch up on time zones and mingle about.
Now I know I don't have the on-camera eloquence of my friend Emma Hayes (who called the game for
Eurosport last night in England), or the TV personality of Fox Soccer Channel's Mark Rogondino (who
used to do all the WPS broadcasts and is now on the MLS tour of duty), so getting ready for my
video intro this morning put me to task.
