The world's biggest soccer club arrived on the campus of the world's biggest software company this afternoon. And egos collided -- or at least a language barrier meant things didn't follow the script. FC Barcelona -- in town to face the Seattle Sounders in a friendly match tomorrow at Qwest Field -- got to check out product demos at Microsoft as well as tour the company's Home of the Future.
I chose the plum reporting assignment in part due to my love of soccer. But also because of the promise of catching some choice video of Thierry Henry or Zlatan Ibrahimovic testing their skills on Project Natal, the company's full-body, motion-sensing video game control system.
But that didn't happen -- at least not in the view of the media. Turns out that European sports dynasties are just as concerned about what products their star players are seen next to as American teams.
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