i said i'd leave it to the pros

"At around noon I headed towards the main square in hopes of landing a ticket and bumped into three Portuguese fans that were working in Paris, and who had taken the weekend off to catch the game.

Nuno lived in San Francisco for a few years and knew the lack of top quality soccer that North American fans face, so he invited me to join the crew on a nonstop mission of song and dance through the cobblestone streets of Basel, fuelled by overpriced kebabs (Europe's tasty street meat) and two-dollar tall boys.

We strolled into a small square and that's when the fun really began.",

in live from the alps, www.cbcsports.ca, kris fernandes, 2008