Thousands of miles from home, CSUB soccer player Curtis Miley spent his summer in Bakersfield for the World Cup \u2014 even if it meant being surrounded by American fans while cheering for Australia.<\/p>\n
Miley, who is from Australia, watched the match with his brother, Kelby, at Bakersfield Beer Company as the United States beat Australia, 2-0. Curtis Miley said he quickly realized he was outnumbered at the watch party.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we first passed and I saw all the American shirts, I was like: Oh Dear. Here we go. I mean I should have expected it, but it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s funny. Not something I\u2019m used to, but yeah,\u201d Curtis Miley said.<\/p>\n
The brothers also took some friendly teasing, including a reference to the stereotype about putting shrimp on the barbecue. Kelby Miley said it\u2019s not something he\u2019s ever actually done.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting one. I don\u2019t think ever in my life I ever put a shrimp or a prawn as we call it on the barbie. For some reason it\u2019s stuck around. I don\u2019t know. We laugh every time and it\u2019s something that never happens. They keep it alive,\u201d Kelby Miley said.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Curtis Miley said he\u2019s sticking with his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m wearing my Australian cape. I\u2019m repping it loud and proud even though we lost 2-nil. Aussie Heart through and through. No matter what. Congrats to U.S. though, but we gotta stick with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The brothers are planning to attend two World Cup matches, including June 25 when Australia plays Paraguay in Los Angeles. Kelby Miley celebrates his 22nd birthday June 29.<\/p>\n
Curtis Miley said he enjoys playing for the Roadrunners and is excited for his junior year as a defender for CSUB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of miles from home, CSUB soccer player Curtis Miley spent his summer in Bakersfield for the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-367871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}