featured place in Gib: thursday football at the Victoria Stadium

it was only when i came over back in April 2009 that i knew football was HUGE in Europe. naturally, the mister is a fan. in fact some of his friends are athletes in the Gibraltar Football Association. regularly, they have matches and/or "friendlies" with other teams in Europe, mainly the neighboring cities and towns in Spain. yesterday was the start of the Festival Cup and they had a match against Cadiz. so we decided to cheer the national team on. the match by the way was in Victoria Stadium, the only stadium sitting right next to the airport in tiny Gib with the Rock as an imposing backdrop.

here is the Gib team wearing their national colors warming up for the match. the GFA president is the guy in jeans, Gareth Latin.

on your left is the team from Cadiz with their checkerboard uniforms and the reds are our guys.

the match wasn't so exciting (imho) and this young lady obviously shared my sentiments! she just couldn't sit still. she was sitting right next to us with her very engrossed dad. she kept fidgeting for her mobile and sitting precariously like this!

just to show you how lovely the view was :)