Consadole Sapporo Vs. Thespa Kusatsu

These were the two soccer teams that were playing at Sapporo Dome on Wed...and with Sapporo university being a major sponsor for Consadole, we got free tickets to watch the game...actually the university gave out free tickets to all first year students...though I`m not sure how many of them actually turned up. The stadium sure is big though. And the soccer field itself is actually on a sort of platform...on wheels...and it literally gets rolled in whenever it`s needed...the same goes for the dome`s baseball field as well...the whole place can transform from one field to another in about 5hrs...pretty cool if you ask me...

In any case, the stadium wasn`t packed that night but there were enough fans out there to make a strong cheering crowd...at least that was the case for the Sapporo team...for Kusatsu i think there was only about...20 people who were cheering...as opposed to the hundreds that turned out to cheer for Sapporo (not surprising considering it was a home game).

For the game we were accompanied by a staff member...Hatakeyama-sensei(at least I think I should call him sensei...I don`t think he teaches a class though)...and I gotta say he`s a really nice guy...not only did he accompany us to the game but he also paid for the taxi trip there AND also paid for our dinner as well!! We didn`t want to accept and all but he was quite insistant...heh...I can`t imagine any of the staff members at UTS doing this for anyone...