Global football

When I travelled by bus from Savannakhet to Pakse, a nice girl was sitting next to my. She spoke quite good english although she never had been out of Laos. She was about 19 or 20 and was going to visit her cousin in Salavanh for the upcoming Buddhist New Year. It was the first time that she travelled to southern Laos and she was enchanted when she saw the forested hills rising from the plains (the area around Savannakhet and north to Vientiane is almost completely flat). She asked me where I was from and nodded her head when I said that I was Geman. As I mentioned that I lived in Spain she hesitated, not knowing first where this country exactly could be. When I told her the city I'm living in, she smiled, because she had heard about the FC Barcelona...
That was not the first time actually... quite a lot of people know Europe through the different football clubs. When I was looking around in the bus, I discovered a bag with the logo of the FC Barcelona... and in the guest house in Savannakhet I saw one morning that the owner watched an english football match on the TV...