GO AUSSIES!!!
I was gonna post something about the Yosakoi Dance Festival that took place last week...but i think I`ll save that for my next post and go on a bit about the World Cup...Japan vs. Australia...
Deciding where to watch the game was difficult...especially when most of your friends don`t know where a decent sports bar is...and so me and Cody (one of my American friends) hit Susukino with the hopes of finding a decent bar to watch the game in...a place where there are plenty of Japanese people and alcohol...and well...lets just say...mission accomplished.
We asked a dude on the street where would be a good place to watch the game and he told us that everyone was going to "King Xhumu" to watch it...now...this place is known as being one of the better trance clubs in Susukino so I was kinda surprised...but he was right...imagine a club like Sublime/Home in Sydney...completely PACKED...with Japanese people...most of them wearing the Samurai Blue colours and are big soccer fans...and me being one of the only Australians in the club...all watching the game on this massive screen...this was gonna be interesting.
The entry fee was expensive though...￥1500...including one free drink...expensive but well worth it considering the atmosphere. Now I said that I was one of the only Australians there...I wasn`t the only one...inside I met this guy from the Gold Coast...his name was Rhett and he had just moved to Hokkaido not too long ago...so we had two Aussies in the club now...and with Cody going for Australia as well...that was a total of three people cheering for Australia...against the hundreds of Japanese supporters in the club...Chris (dude from NZ) was there as well but he was going for Japan...and getting free drinks because of it...traitor.
The game started and everythings going fine...there`s this Japanese dude next us smack talking the Australian team but we ignored him...tis all in good fun. Japan scores a goal...the place goes nuts. And I mean really nuts. We were copping it a bit from the Japanese people we were hanging with. But I kept the faith and in the last 10mins of the game...the mood of the club went from extreme joy...to extreme depression...it was funny. When Australia scored their first goal...the crowd was still in high spirits; so you couldn`t really hear our attempts at an Aussie chant. The score was 1-1 and Japan still had a chance. Then along came the second goal. Things got a little more quiet but the Japanese fans still had hopes of a comeback. The three of us going for Australia though...we were going absolutely nuts...and getting quite a few dirty looks from a few of the Japanese who were around us. Then that final moment during injury time when Australia scored that 3rd goal...the look of horror on the Japanese`s faces...the whole club was virtually silent...broken only by the sound of 3 foreigners shouting "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!"...it was a kodak moment really...if only I had my camera there...
After that pretty much everyone left the club in virtual slience. Although there were the occasional few that were still chanting the Japanese chant on the streets, it was quiet. The mood wasn`t great but inside I was jumping for joy. In a way it would`ve been good if Japan had won...because Susukino would`ve been just one massive all night party if they had...and I wouldn`t be here posting on my blog if that were the case. So regardless of how the match went, it would`ve been a win win situation for me.
Deciding where to watch the game was difficult...especially when most of your friends don`t know where a decent sports bar is...and so me and Cody (one of my American friends) hit Susukino with the hopes of finding a decent bar to watch the game in...a place where there are plenty of Japanese people and alcohol...and well...lets just say...mission accomplished.
We asked a dude on the street where would be a good place to watch the game and he told us that everyone was going to "King Xhumu" to watch it...now...this place is known as being one of the better trance clubs in Susukino so I was kinda surprised...but he was right...imagine a club like Sublime/Home in Sydney...completely PACKED...with Japanese people...most of them wearing the Samurai Blue colours and are big soccer fans...and me being one of the only Australians in the club...all watching the game on this massive screen...this was gonna be interesting.
The entry fee was expensive though...￥1500...including one free drink...expensive but well worth it considering the atmosphere. Now I said that I was one of the only Australians there...I wasn`t the only one...inside I met this guy from the Gold Coast...his name was Rhett and he had just moved to Hokkaido not too long ago...so we had two Aussies in the club now...and with Cody going for Australia as well...that was a total of three people cheering for Australia...against the hundreds of Japanese supporters in the club...Chris (dude from NZ) was there as well but he was going for Japan...and getting free drinks because of it...traitor.
The game started and everythings going fine...there`s this Japanese dude next us smack talking the Australian team but we ignored him...tis all in good fun. Japan scores a goal...the place goes nuts. And I mean really nuts. We were copping it a bit from the Japanese people we were hanging with. But I kept the faith and in the last 10mins of the game...the mood of the club went from extreme joy...to extreme depression...it was funny. When Australia scored their first goal...the crowd was still in high spirits; so you couldn`t really hear our attempts at an Aussie chant. The score was 1-1 and Japan still had a chance. Then along came the second goal. Things got a little more quiet but the Japanese fans still had hopes of a comeback. The three of us going for Australia though...we were going absolutely nuts...and getting quite a few dirty looks from a few of the Japanese who were around us. Then that final moment during injury time when Australia scored that 3rd goal...the look of horror on the Japanese`s faces...the whole club was virtually silent...broken only by the sound of 3 foreigners shouting "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!"...it was a kodak moment really...if only I had my camera there...
After that pretty much everyone left the club in virtual slience. Although there were the occasional few that were still chanting the Japanese chant on the streets, it was quiet. The mood wasn`t great but inside I was jumping for joy. In a way it would`ve been good if Japan had won...because Susukino would`ve been just one massive all night party if they had...and I wouldn`t be here posting on my blog if that were the case. So regardless of how the match went, it would`ve been a win win situation for me.
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