Wednesday, June 14, 2006



Like U.S. soccer at the World Cup, Media Dragon has room for growth as it competes with global heavyweights ;-)

Soccer isn't like real life. Anybody who has been watching the World Cup this week understands this. Here at TechEd, multiple TVs have beamed the games to bemused spectators (although most of the serious viewers have foreign accents) all over the convention hall. Not that I've been watching soccer instead of working, of course. I would never do that...ahem. Hey, it's not as though there's been a massive amount of news here this week.

Anyway, in real life, the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world, absolutely dominant economically, militarily and culturally. In real life, we kick...well, you know. But in soccer life, Brazil is the superpower, and countries like the Netherlands and Argentina are powerful forces that strike fear into their opponents. Soccer life is, in many ways, the world turned upside-down, a parallel universe in which the real-world superpower is a scrappy underdog that still gets schooled by smaller nations on the big stage (see Czech Republic 3, U.S. 0 on Monday of this week).
The Unlikely Underdog Is Ready To Strike