martes, 28 de agosto de 2012

TALE "THREE CRIES OF THE IDOL"


Three goals against rivals in the championship game catapulted him to fame with your dreams. From the days when getting up every morning imagine that that day would come at some point in their lives. It happened at the end of his career but came at last, and will remember it forever. Convinced some call the winners, while others say perseverance. According to the villagers, the Oliva had both virtues in his personality and his game is based mostly on his physical strength, which imposed through his ninety kilos and six feet. Undoubtedly idol was meant to be and remain in the club's history.
 
   Pibe lovable by everyone from boy, this morochito owes his nickname to his father, an olive oil producer well known in the area and football fan. Never missed a game of his favorite team, let alone if his son was part of the starting lineup. The Oliva from an early work and study, but if he had left on the books, but the football and go to school went together as mandated family. "If you do not study, do not you play" he repeated daily her father, who with his bald head and the six-foot he commanded respect both your child and their own friends, who even dared to call him bald.

   Mornings in the village were very windy and cold penetrated the bones, is that despite the double pajama Oliva put down the school clothes and walked slowly walk the three miles that separated him from his home in the mountains to school. In those long walks imagine thousands of times what happened twenty five years later in the final tournament remembered where he came glory thanks to the efforts made throughout his career. Every day for years made the same journey with all dreams in tow. From home to school, then to work with his father and then what most expected always football. Over the years, adolescent and school change by more activity in the Olivares.

   I never fail to kick the ball and amaze with his goals, although these were not present in big games. Enlarges in easy encounters and deleted in the difficult phrases were heard all weekend. More than any of the rivals, because the fans turn their teams always idolized him even though I never had a game consagratorio. Was one of those players who gave everything on the pitch and fought every ball as if it were the last.

   I always dreamed of, always imagine and always believed. "I will not retire until I have my party, the one where I go all in a classic or a final" report that said year after year. When it seemed that the twilight of his career would come unnoticed encounter occurred as expected by Oliva and especially by his father.

   Final regional tournament, five thousand people in the stadium, the people expectant distinctive party. The two top teams in the area defined the champion. The Oliva was part of the package holder Deportivo. Three goals and an unforgettable performance. As none in life. That evening was the last time you saw him on a football field. As the years went everywhere front, better and worse, but none like the Oliva, who played in teams of lesser importance. But you will always be remembered as a great.

lunes, 27 de agosto de 2012

TALE "GO QUIROGA"


"Hitch is the heart of the team, is the key player that handles time and makes playing partners, who between and to turn this party" expressed Adolfo, a fifty with many courts in the back, sitting at the table located in front of a television 14 inches, almost instantly, from the other side, replicating that cry-comment, a young man of no more than thirty years stated that "the game is won by the bands with the return of the flyers , hitch slows the game and has no proper dynamics for these times. " The site of the debate was the bar of Nato, in which both, along with a dozen people, watched as his favorite team lost two-nil against arch-rivals half hour missing for game completion.
   
   Just for that meeting had decided to take the coach to fill ten branded flyers midfield as the fans to look at his bow to zero and achieve at least a draw as desired, which gave the first championship in history the neighborhood team. The complicated scenario painted by the two goals against and hopes to turn, or at least empardar, the party were on the bench. Quiroga, a flyer on the outside with great goal, and Pattelli, a generator hook football like few others, were the two most viable options that had the coach to achieve what had hitherto smell feat.
   
   The young almost thirties, who in the neighborhood known as Ernesto, open the defense asked for the bands, so it was his understanding Quiroga was the player who could change the course of the game, while the man in years pleaded for Pattelli entry, for whom he was able to turn the match on its own. While Nato, the owner of the bar, managed to say "entering the two", to hear what a "is a single change" from those present at the scene, who for once agreed a comment all afternoon.
   
   The point was that the determination of who entered, if this occurred, did not depend on any of those who watched the game on television. Only the coach should make this decision, it may become the most important in the club's history. Finally the change was made in the absence of twenty minutes with the team still two goals down.
   
   Seconds before the change as expected, looks expectantly among the attendees at the Nato local intersected for a moment, lest they miss the point of entry for them who could become El Salvador. Quiroga was elected by the technician to change history, perhaps based on the fragility of the opposing team's side when dialing, it sent the pitch. At the time of the change, drawing a smile on the face of Ernesto, who beyond the partial defeat of his team, felt a triumph satisfaction with income flywheel back and forth going down the flanks. The moment in which he expressed "we Quiroga", everyone in the bar noticed on his face his personal victory. He had already won that afternoon and nothing was going to tarnish that time, even the possible defeat and therefore loss Championship club he loves.

SOCCER, SOCcer, soccer


The effect and consequence of an act, transaction or deliberation, that is "the result", is perhaps one of the main culprits of the current football matches are observed as closed and locked with little room for unexpected moves or actions that go of the orthodox and the proposals prior static.

    Side bound, double five, flying back with more tips that way today loners are so familiar and common positions, it seems here to stay, moving to the offensive side remembered frilly complemented with arrival of goal, who then relied on hooks and unbalancing strategists who unloaded lots of assists to the deadly front.

    In these times all, or nearly all, depends on what appears on the scoreboard after the game. That is, unless set aside the result, football still looks similar to the current one in the coming years. Balls, balls and balls will be present in all the courts in droves to get a result that satisfies the fans, who to them affects their weekly mood.

    But as everything has a limit. May come a day when old memories rememoren supporters of football teams and while the eyes were wet loudly ask something more than just a stunt on the scoreboard. Some believe that the time should be "yesterday", others state that it is not bad "morning", while football asks is that that day is not "too late".

THE BALL AND ORANGE


It has long been said that Argentina is synonymous with football. But football is synonymous with Argentina? Based on results of selection globally in the last twelve years, more than one would hesitate to respond positively to this question. Maybe manifest that the country has more to do with men's basketball or women's hockey on grass.

   In that period of time the most resonant sports greatest joys for Argentines came from the hand of those sports. Two Olympic medals (gold in Athens 2004 and bronze in Beijing 2008) and a runner in the world in Indianapolis 2002, were the greatest achievements of the Argentina basketball, which was called "The Golden Generation". While the Argentine women's hockey won two world titles (2002 and Rosario Perth 2010) and four medals at the Olympic Games, two silver (Sydney 2000 and London 2012) and two bronze (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008) .

   The results also were accompanied by brilliant performances, both individually and collectively, they moved to tears by the Argentines. No one will forget the insights of Emanuel Ginobili indecipherable or dribbling of Luciana Aymar, nor the contribution scorer Luis Scola or Vanina Oneto. Great defenses of conquests unthinkable for basketball and hockey, suggest that if the Argentines, at this time, have more to do with these activities, with soccer.

   He always maintained that the vast majority of Argentine children are given a soccer ball that is said to be the sport that is in the DNA, but what would happen if all the kids were given an orange ball or a ball, before a number 5? Without having done this, Argentina achieving significant results in the last twelve years in basketball and hockey, which did not get the football, despite being "by far" the favorite sport of the Argentine

TOO LONG


It has been 20 years since the last time that the Argentina football entered the top four posts at the World Championships. Too long for an association that is considered a football power at the international level and a candidate, not just the podium, but also to clinch the cup competition in which each is present.

These two decades are the equivalent of five world without the presence of Argentina in semifinals, a place that they had agreed on the same quotes thirteen different selections, such is the case of Sweden, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey and South Korea, some of which not have a distinguished history in this kind of tournaments.

When it comes to soccer powers, quickly think of Brazil, Italy, Germany and Argentina. The penta world champions and the Germans were present on three occasions since the World Cup semifinals U.S. in 1994 to South Africa this year, as did the Italians twice. The group is completed thirteen Spain, Portugal, Uruguay, France and Holland, the latter two were among the four best in the world twice.

Many selections, many global, many years and the Argentina still does not appear among the four semifinalists. The next FIFA World Cup will be in 2014 in Brazil, where hope is renewed that the albiceleste get his third title and show that the only football power was "sleepy" a few years, and no, it ceased.