[L-I] Soccer and Politics: England 1, Argentina 0

Such is life.

England won the Argentine-England match on the World Soccer Cup. 

Penalty by Pochettino, 1-0, the whole English team ran back to their 
field and made access to the goal line impossible. The right thing to 
do. 

England deserved the victory.  I send my hommage to that great lion  
Seaman (a goalkeeper of 39 who gallantly became a youthful Gallahad 
against Argentinean attackers), my warm salute to the British working 
class who offered her best children to the team, and another -less 
warm- one to the former colonial subjects who make their old 
slaveowning and opium-introducing masters the present of their 
talents. 

But I want to add a domestic, Argentinean, political comment.

During the whole week before the match, the Argentinean media were 
hammering in our heads the wishy-washy and false idea that this was 
"just another match". Demalvinisation is still full gear. They were 
trying to make us forget the obvious symbolism of the situation: "if 
we can at least be better than them on soccer, then we can expect to 
be better than them on any field of human life"

The English fans gave them the answer: when they realized (say, 
around the 35/40 minutes of the second part) that they were winning 
the match, a brass band that was with them began to play _Rule 
Britannia_.

They don't forget. Neither do we. Only the commercial media in 
Argentina look elsewhere.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Compañeros del exercito de los Andes. 

...La guerra se la tenemos de hacer del modo que podamos: 
sino tenemos dinero, carne y un pedazo de tabaco no nos 
tiene de faltar: cuando se acaben los vestuarios, nos 
vestiremos con la bayetilla que nos trabajen nuestras mugeres, 
y sino andaremos en pelota como nuestros paisanos los indios: 
seamos libres, y lo demás no importa nada...

Jose de San Martín, 27 de julio de 1819.

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