Striker Fans Stay Calm

It's extremely understandable that after this weekend's strong showing against Red Bull New York, Striker fans around the globe are in mass hysteria, parading their hometown streets as if we'd won the FIFA Club World Cup by beating Barcelona 5-0.

Low and behold this find gem recently available on ebay. It's a match-worn, 1981 Elías Figueroa adidas Striker away jersey and it's up for sale for approximately $1,624.87! Yes, the price is true. Chile's best ever player and a member of FIFA's top 125 of all time played for the Strikers and his shirt is going for a butt load.

This may be an attempt to play off the popularity of the Chilean Miners, who brave souls as they were, escaped their living tombs in full hooligan style, waving Chilean flags and chanting, "Chi, Chi, Chi, Le, Le, Le".

Anybody wanna post a grand plus for this piece of history?

Chi Chi Chi - Le Le Le

Trapped for days. Deprived of the comforts of today's living standards. The Chilean miners left their cave-doom and resurfaced like a crazed pack of, well for a lack of a better term, South American soccer fans.

One miner even waved the flag of Chilean powerhouse club Colo Colo as he was escorted off to a medical area.

Point I'm trying to make is that South Florida is full of South American soccer fans. We've been in a cave for almost 20 years without top flight pro soccer, could even be 30 years if you consider the NASL's first Strikers as our last top-rate club (apologies to the Miami Fusion, but who were you again and what did you do with my pro soccer?).

Also of note, I will be taking with me my Fort Lauderdale Strikers pennant whenever I go mining.