World Cup Benefits for Women

My boys are all NUTS about soccer.  Ty and Jayden play it and Paul coaches three teams (including Rep) but this summer, they are even more crazed about it with World Cup fever.  Between Google's new soccer logos, McDonald's Happy Meal toys and even World Cup decorations all over the orthodontist's office, there's just no escaping this fever! 

The craze is not just in my house, but everywhere.  On our street, the trash talk has started between our neighbours. The husbands are wearing shirts that they won't wash for weeks and our minivan has been adorned with the English flag (go England)....so what's a wife to do?  What is in it for women who just don't care much about soccer?

I started to find some answers in my own home.  In addition to the fact that Paul was too preoccupied with soccer to notice that dinner was fish sticks again and on top of him being so worried about the game that he didn't notice that I sneaked upstairs to watch 'Orange Is The New Black' on Netflix, I finally found the REAL benefits of watching the World Cup!  All over Facebook today the true answer came to me, like a sexy, bronzed Brazilian athlete....I introduce to you, some reasons why you actually MIGHT want to sit through a match or two with your man;

Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal

Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast

Alexis Sánchez, Chile

So while my minivan flag might be waving the white and red for England, I'm secretly voting for Portugal, Chile AND the Ivory Coast (shhhhh).

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