Europe Blog #7

Wyoming Soccer at Wembley Stadium, London. Next time we are playing in here!


By Allison Masumiya, Courtney Merkle, Meagan Burke

Today the team woke up after a long days trip yesterday, and we were off to Westfield mall for a quick shopping trip after Jason got car sick (although he managed to keep it in) this morning on the bus. After about two hours of shopping we went to Wembley Stadium. Our tour guide Ainsley was incredibly enthusiastic and informed us of many things we did not know about Wembley Stadium, including a bunch of world records the stadium holds, like the world record for the most number of toilets in a stadium which was 2618 toilets. The stadium also holds up to 90,000 fans, and also is the largest covered stadium in the world. Wembley holds many sporting events as well as concerts, like Michael Jackson who has had the most concerts there and sold out 7 nights in the row! If you think about 90,000 people times 7 concerts.. thats a ton of people. There were many great things to see in the stadium, like the Royal box which had blue seats instead of red throughout the stadium and that is where the royal family sits when they are taking in the events at the stadium. While going around behind the scenes of the stadium we got to see the locker room of team England and were able to take pictures with the jerseys of some of the great English players like David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.

Once finished the tour we we got to visit the shop at Wembley and look around and some of the national team gear and club team gear. After we were all done at Wembley we headed to our fourth and final game of this trip against Fullham Ladies where we finished the game with a 6-0 decision in our favor. The goal scorers of the game included Mara Cosgrove, Chelsea Coddington, Allison Masumiya, Katie Amsberry, Emma Wilson and Jules Candelaria, and 7th goal by Morgan Johnson which was called offside and didn't count....dicey decision by the ref! The highlight was senior Emma Wilson scoring on a 30 yeard bomb with no time left..that is a way to end your Cowgirl career! Instead of playing two 45 minute halves this game we played three 30 minutes. It was great to play for the seniors one last time and a great way to end the year off and our trip in Europe. Although we all have enjoyed this trip and have loved being in Europe, everyone is really looking forward to getting home and being with friends and family for the summer....see everyone in Laramie soon! GO POKES!