Finland is know for snowy winters,reindeers,forests,and swamps.Swamps stretch across the countryside as far as the eye can see.Once a year,the town of Helsinki,hosts some 5,000 participants from a number of countries. The players play soccer in the knee-deep mud,and often there is more wading and crawling than actual kicking of the ball. The game lasta for two periods of 25 minutes each in a marked soccer field that look more like a pig pen. After kickoff,the participants'brightly colored team shirts soon become dirty rags.