WCB Team Member: Jay

Name: Jay Clark
Residing: Chicago/Oak Park IL, USA
Personal blog: occasionally posting at The Chicago Factory

Favorite Italian Club Team: I’m not tellin’. See if you can figure it out.
Favorite Italian Player, past or present: Roby Baggio

Favorite soccer moment 1: meeting Hristo Stoichkov
Favorite soccer moment 2: watching Ajax at the cauldron-like De Meer stadium with a young Dennis Bergkamp on the pitch

Five football books everyone should read:
Miracle of Castel Di Sangro - Joe Mcginniss
Football Against The Enemy - Simon Kuper
Soccer in Sun and Shadow - Eduardo Galeano
The Simplest Game - Paul Gardner
Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

Who will win the World Cup this summer: Brazil.
And if not Brazil? Because everyone picks Brazil: Germany, on their own soil, will be hard to bet against.

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