We've written before about our love of soccer but unfortunately, being here in the States, it's a little hard to get the full flavor of it. Major League Soccer isn't quite that exciting and there's no longer a franchise here. There are also plenty of places in the city to watch some Premiere League (and occasional Serie A games) but it's not quite the same as watching the games in Europe. Also, we don't like to get up early.

So we're kind of excited over the news that Stanford is going to host a game between the Premiere League's Chelsea and Mexico's Club America on July 14th.

We don't know much about Club America other than they've won the Mexico League ten times, but we do know a bit about the Blues, mainly that they're sort of the New York Yankees of the Premiere League except instead of being owned by a cranky old man who throws money around at every player out there, they're owned by a Russian Oligarch with rumored ties to the Russian mafia who throws money around at every player out there. As a result, his team features a whole bunch of people with whom you might remember from last year's World Cup. They were supposed to win the Premiere League this year but fell short to Man U, but they did beat Man U for the FA Cup.

Both teams are stopping at Stanford before going off to various tournaments. Either way, the game should be pretty fun to watch as a bunch of soused British ex-pats will cheer on one team while a bunch of raucous Mexicans will cheer on the other. Sounds good to us.

Tickets appear to be onsale now.