From the category archives:
I would love to explain how much it meant to me just to see the Argentine national team play. I would love to say it was a thrill to see so many wearing the Albiceleste with pride and honor. I would love to write how seeing both of my countries fight an intense [...]
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I just don’t know what to wear.
I’m packing for my trip to NYC to see Argentina annihilate the U.S. soccer team at the Meadowlands, and I have too many Albiceleste sartorial choices.
Do I go with my “old school” jersey from the 2002 disappointing World Cup showing?
Do I choose the less recognizable, dark blue road [...]
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This guy.
I know, you can’t see my thumbs, but trust me, they’re here.
As an early birthday present, Blue bought us two tickets to watch my home country’s soccer team (currently ranked number one in the world) play my adopted country’s team at the Meadowlands on June 8. It cost nearly $200 for both tickets, [...]
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Germany spanked my country’s beautiful women 11-0 yesterday in the Women’s World Cup China 2007. In a game as low-scoring as soccer, this would be the equivalent of a baseball team scoring 28 runs or a football team tallying 121 points. In other words, a slaughter.
As I told I-66, who was quick to [...]
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I hate David Beckham.
Wait. Strike that. I don’t hate him.
I hate English soccer players.
Yes, that’s better. That’s what I mean.
Though the Argentina national team has played England only 11 times, our games have always carried paramount significance surpassed only by those against Brazil. Between the famous “Hand of God†game in [...]
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A soccer-deprived friend recently asked me to help him learn about the most popular sport in the world.
Having been born in the United States of Football, Baseball, and Basketball, he rarely watched “the beautiful game†and never studied its history, strategy, and competitiveness.
I told him I’d take him under my wing. Take [...]
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They’re synonymous with “vagina bundles” in England and would protect me from evil Guatemalan thieves. But they’re still fanny packs and I’m pretty sure Johanna would stop talking to me if I ever owned one.
If I were to wear a fanny pack, though, it would be this one, recommended to me by Gen, who [...]
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Because we’re not Guatemala, Argentina beat Mexico last night 3-0 in la Copa América semifinals to advance to the tournament championship against Brazil — a rematch of the 2004 fiasco.
That final game, which I watched three years ago with a gazillion Brazilian fans at Marx Cafe in Mt. Pleasant, made an atheist out of me. [...]
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The Princess left yesterday for Guatemala, where she plans to spend three weeks learning a dialect of Spanish I will then have to deprogram when she gets back. She’ll be living with a host family in Quetzaltenango, nicknamed Xela (pronounced SHELL-a) and attending a language school.
I’ll be joining her in two weeks for a [...]
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