Football matches

Sunday, Aug 10 was raining at Shanghai. We were to watch Olympic football matches at the Shanghai Stadium. We went to Shanghai earlier, had lunch at Super Brand Mall. This mall is huge. 9 levels of shopping, foot and entertainment. After lunch, we windows shop a bit and left the mall at 2:45pm. Our driver alighted us at the Lian Hua station on line 1 subway. Took the subway and head to the stadium. We were drenched when we get to the stadium because there is a 500m walk from the subway exit to the stadium. Fortunately, the stadium has shelter. The security was pretty strict, no bottle water, no long umbrella, bags are X-ray... but fast.

These two matches were good. Argentina won Australia 1:0 while Serbia won Cote D'Ivoire with a score of 4:2. The 2nd match was much more exciting and more aggressive and fast. Within 3mins, Serbia scored first goal comparing to the first match of Argentina vs Australia where there is not much of excitment till the 2nd half.

A shot of the Shanghai stadium.

There are pocket of Argentina fans among the chinese but not too many supporters for Australia.

Overall, the excitment was good.