"Los argentinos son mas arrogantes que los chilenos" was a correct answer in my Spanish class in Santiago on Friday. Everyone in Latin America hates Argentina. In fact, most everyone.
I enjoyed that conversation yesterday around the World Cup so let's see what we can glean from the horrors of history for today's matchups. Argentina v. Egypt doesn't exactly provide.
As many of us have said, if Trump and his fascist friends have their way, ICE is going to be doing a whole lot more than ethnic cleansing. It's not.
One thing I love about the World Cup is that it gives a certain set of liberals who love to shout SPORTSBALL most of the time an excuse to root.
Remember the Congo.
A surprisingly harsh and direct article by Juliet Macur in the Times on the complete idiocy of stadium building for the World Cup. A lot of these new stadiums not.
Chuck Blazer weighs in. I still believe that this is an admittedly risky tactic that Blatter is using to ensure his reelection, and once that's secured normal business will resume.
This hasn't really been picked up by the media, but according to Prost Amerika Soccer, FIFA is entertaining the possibility of overturning Qatar's sensible victory in hosting the 2022 World.
