Redefining Soccer Mom

Readers have been e-mailing all day to thank Tearfree for calling Cristiano Ronaldo to their attention. They’ve also asked if we could possibly do a regular daily feature pointing out the hottest World Cup players. Absolutely, no problem.

Just around the corner from Tearfree's house is a German restaurant that's converted itself into the local FIFA headquarters, allowing customers to pretend that they're actually in Deutschland attending the real thing. Not to mention that the neighbourhood is also filled with Italian coffee joints.

Yesterday afternoon, Tearfree had barely had two sips of her cappuccino and nothing more than glanced at the giant screen when she spotted Andrea Pirlo and recognized instantly that he would be today’s winner of the Soccer Moms’ Choice Award.

So, keep those nominations coming and change the reputation of soccer moms everywhere once and for all! Remember, there's one award every day so we should be able to make everyone happy at least once before things wrap up on Jul 9.