"In a Different Country"

If you are a regular reader of BigSoccer, you may have run into these excellent posts by BigSoccer poster and Reading FC fan, "RichardL" before.

The threads listed here are journal entries that Richard titled, "It's Like Being in a Different Country" and are about his travels to different cities and soccer matches all over the globe. He is an excellent writer: funny, witty, and descriptive and although some of these were posted more than a year ago and cover games he attended many years ago, I still go back and read them again from time to time.

If you're a MLS fan and jump straight to the Chicago Fire post, keep in mind that the game Richard attended was at Soldier Field way back in 2001.

All credit goes to RichardL for writing these excellent entries and making them available at BigSoccer.

Here is a compiled list of all of Richard's "Different Country" posts:

Japan
J-League

Russia
Part 1 - Zenit St. Petersburg
Part 2 - Lokomotiv Moscow
Part 3 - Torpedo Moscow

Turkey
Part 1 - Galatasaray
Part 2 - Besiktas

USA
Part 1 - Chicago Fire
Part 2 - Rochester Rhinos

Germany
Part 1 - Dortmund/Cologne
Part 2 - Aachen/Cologne

Confederations Cup 2005
Part 1 - Hannover
Part 2 - Nuremberg

Hong Kong

World Cup - (Frankfurt)

Prague
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Budapest

Hamburg

Madrid