Futbol game

Professor Hanson, a professor from TECSUP, his brother, me, and another student from Purdue went to a futbol match to watch Universatario play against another team in the Peruvian league. This stadium was massive! I guess it seats over 80,000 people. The problem is the average attendance is under 20,000. (Later a Peruvian student told me they only sell it out against their main rival, during concerts, and when the national team plays there.) At this stadium you get a quick understanding of Peruvian idea of professional. The place was really dusty, the bathrooms were questionable; the field looked very well worn. Generally, I like older stadia because most of them have more personality than modern ones. So I figured this stadium was 70 or 80 years old. Maybe over the years they renovated to fix the concrete, put in new seats, added a ton of luxury suites, etc. No! This place was only 8 years old. I have never been to a top stadium that looked so in disrepair. It made me wonder if Peruvians build things and let it go until it falls over. The game wasn't too exciting. The field was surrounded in a thick Plexiglas wall with barbed wire. You weren't allowed to sit at the bottom 10 or so rows (the fence was completely covered in banners) because the riot shield police were at the ready. Again you had the Peruvian food vendors coming up to you asking you wanted something. The Peruvian professor told us that you can ask the vendors if they have drinks filled with alcohol. Unofficially, of course. The fans sang, yelled, and used flares. Definitely different from American pro sports. Afterward we went to a restaurant and I ate a whole chicken, two beef-ka-bobs, and a salad. The games weren't too expensive. I guess it was 10 soles to enter.