Mix a bunch of friends, ten euros each, and you got spontaneous football

Today’s guest blogger is named Anton Berg, who is heard on Swedish Radio on such shows as P3 Documentary, Radiosporten and Fråga Barnen. He has recently started work again after having been on maternity leave with his child Albin, who is 15 months old. His dream job is still Lego engineer at Legoland and Anton is really looking forward to when Albin is old enough to play with real LEGO.

Last spring, I received an SMS from a friend who asked me if I wanted to play with his team.

"Of course!" I replied. "In what?"

It turned out to be about football, something that I'm not great at, but because it involved beer and hot dog grilling, I thought it sounded great. Some enterprising friends' friends asked a total of eight people to organize their own seven man team. Each contributed ten euro, and since we were around 60 people, we had a full day of brilliant sunshine with football, beer, hot dogs and nice chilling. Afterwards we were all incredibly pleased and surprised. Could you still have this much fun for so long for ten euro in the 21st century?

We agreed that organization was key. An effort must be made; a little work invested to get a full day of fun. But the effort makes it all better. And if you do it as smart as these guys and delegate early on, each person has a very small amount of responsibility and it becomes a piece of cake.