FC Barcelona V Club America

G and I went to the FC Barcelona v. Club America game at Cowboys Stadium yesterday. Why?
1. Air conditioned location outside my apartment (too hot to do anything outside).
2. I LOVE soccer football...and I am working to get G into the sport.
3. Check out the new stadium.
4. Snagged great tickets for cheap.
5. FC Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world (and sponsored by the Qatar Foundation).

Cowboys Stadium. Looks like a spaceship landed in the Metroplex (you can see it from miles away). Fact: Cost over 1 billion dollars (I use that fact when talking about the Louisiana Purchase with students, which only cost a bit over 200 million in today's $, to help put it all in perspective).

We are in Dallas Cowboys territory and thus OF COURSE Cowboys Cheerleaders will be there for the coin toss.

G was excited to check out the engineering of the stadium (massive doors, huge TV screen, fancy roof...) and attend his first big soccer football game.

View of field from our seats. We were in the first row on level 2 (of 4). We were very, very happy with our seats since we scored them for cheap.

FC Barcalona is the red/blue team, Club America is the yellow team. Doing whatever they do before kickoff.

FC Barcelona scores! We were lucky because most of the action the entire game was on our end!

He was fine.

Ref giving a yellow card. Do not mess with that face. A good teacher face.

Villa, one of the stars, leaves the game...and you see QF is prominently featured on the jersey. It boggled my mind to see hundreds, if not, thousands of shirts with QF on them. Makes me miss Qatar a bit more.

Necessary pic of me at the game. I look horrendous. I blame it on the hot walk to the stadium. We parked for $20 about a mile away. It costs $75 to park at the stadium. No joke.