Football!

I'm actually getting excited, watching the opening ceremony of the "Eurocopa" on spanish television, Alphorns rock!
ps: Hopp Schwiz!

update: they are singing the national anthem... ah, I'm getting goosebumps, secretly I'm such a patriot, even though the lyrics are kinda outdated (pray free swiss, pray... ahem...)
can't help making some observations =)

• half of the players don't sing, but maybe it's not because they don't know, but because they don't know it in german, hahahaha I wouldn't know it either in the other 3 official languages...
• the camera only shows Mister Couchepin, one of the seven federal councillor, which happens to be the president for 2008 (the presidency is taken over by another member of the council every year, and purely representative). Makes me want to watch the game on a swiss channel to get more discussions about the other members who are also there...
• the singer of the anthem was a quite famous "yodeler" (does that word even exist?), Sarah-Jane, who won the swiss preselection of the Grandprix der Volksmusik some time back, originally from India but having grown up in Switzerland, I feel proud to have someone like that standing on the grass and singing for us :)

oh my god, I'm actually watching football, someone pinch me please ;-)