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June 02, 2006
Japanese aquarium gets into World Cup spirit
Ladies and gentlemen, this is 'fish-tank football'.
Hakkejima Sea Paradise in Yokohama is putting on two matches a day using different species of fish to represent all four teams in Group F.
Here Palett Surgeonfish in the blue of Japan take on defending champions, Brazil, appropriately a group of Yellow Tang. We started this event hoping the fish would play soccer, and everyone talks about it now," said Daisuke Morita, keeper of fish at Yokohama Hakkejima Sea Paradise.
Asked if it's popular among the visitor Morita says yes because soccer, right now is everyone's favourite topic. So this event has been pretty successful.
So some light-hearted fun, but these Japanese fans will be taking things a lot more seriously when the real team's campaign gets underway on June the 12th.
you can see a video, on MSNBC's site for Oddball.. click
Posted by sue at June 2, 2006 11:02 AM