Decided I needed to take a Rick Moranis look at life this afternoon….

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The only location in North Texas to watch the US vs Honduras WCQ was the Verizon Wireless Club at FC Dallas’ Pizza Hut Park.

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Courtesy USSoccer.com

Police stand inside Estadio Olimpico before the start of the match.

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Location: Los Angeles

Date: October 2009

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The US team practices in the heat and humidity at Barry University in Miami ahead of Saturday’s WCQ at San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Hostile crowd?  Military curfew? The US Government’s recent suspension of $30 million in aid?  Potential civil war??

“These are the games you want to play in, to be perfectly honest,” Frankie Hejduk said. “You live for this…”

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Fashion photographer and blogger of the highly addictive The Sartorialist, shot a small editorial for Milk magazine celebrating a special line of Adidas sneakers, casting from people around the city of Berlin.

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Congolese children battle for the ball in a puddle as they play soccer with U.N. peacekeepers outside the entrance to a peacekeeper encampment in the heart of territory held by Rwandan Hutu rebels, the FDLR, in the village of Kimua, eastern Congo.

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