Saturday, May 22, 2010

Period Late Brown Mucus

The hand de Dios

"An Argentine is an Italian who speaks English and thinks he's English." This widespread and significant aphorism explains well the frustration that is a trace of the Argentine national character of the Europeans who feel that "an accident of God," in the words of Garcia Marquez, find themselves living in Latin America.



But it's also an adage that testifies to the admiration of the people of Argentina for the British. There is a simple indicator to understand: when the Argentines get rich now enrolling children in a private English school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, such as the Northlands, Saint Hilda's or St Andrews. But

hand in hand with admiration, resentment runs deep, and is the combination of these two feelings combined with unusual intensity is experienced, which makes it so unique rivalry between Argentina and England when it comes to football.

resentment in a way that is rooted in the conquest by the British during the nineteenth century: the galleons with the British flag landed in Argentina and have gradually usurped the power to the Spaniards. An echo of this vision of the English poor continues to survive. When Aldo Duscher, Deportivo La Coruna's Argentine, was out with a tackle hard to forget David Beckham forcing him to miss the World Cup in 1998, newspapers Argentines have hailed as a hero, but a listener, speaking live, complained because of that tackle "as an excuse when the pirates will lose."

small contingent of British troops have also tried to "invade" Buenos Aires in 1806 and 1807: Argentine children are taught these two battles like Waterloo or Agincourt country. Throughout the twentieth century England has continued to have a cultural and economic power over a nation that already from the Victorian era, was part of the 'informal empire "of His Majesty.

Second-free future, and black sheep in search of redemption or flight departed from Southampton to seek his fortune in Argentina, where they built railways and introduced the game of football. The first match was in fact organized by a teacher in Glasgow, Alexander Watson Hutton, the Buenos Aires Cricket Club 20 June 1867. In field two teams of workers employed in the construction of the railway: the "white hats" beat the "red hats" 4-0. It is said that during the match a baby Argentina has asked his father what they were doing those "strange people" who chased a ball, and his father responded, "are just some of the English 'Wait."

But in 1891, Argentina has its own league, the Argentine Association Football League, founded by Watson Hutton in 1891: to play one league with five teams at the start. A new league, the Argentine Association Football League, which will become the AFA, was founded in 1893. Begins to manifest a difference in style: the English play a more physical football, the South American-influenced Italian and English, developed the game "criollo", more related to quality and individual play.

Argentina is the first national, after Scotland, to challenge England at Wembley in 1951, but the Three Lions won 2-1. Two years after the two teams face two more times, always in Buenos Aires. The first time the Albiceleste win 3-1: the British do not consider quell'amichevole official But Argentina has also FIFA. It 'the first British victory over Argentina. A politician says: "We have nationalized the railroads and now we also nationalized the football." There are no doubts or disputes, however, on the second challenge, which is stopped due to torrential rain after 36 minutes with the score 0-0.

The national meet again at the World Cup 1962 in Chile (English victory 3-1) and June 1964, the Taca de Nacoes friendly tournament in Brazil: Argentina 1-0 success. But it is the 1966 World Cup quarter-final at Wembley, which the Argentines still remember as "the theft of the century", to turn all of the rivalry.

For the first time all the fouls are not counted. At the beginning of the recovery, then, the Argentine captain Antonio Rattini ejected.



In South America the newspapers tell the referee that the German Rudolf Kreitlein said to have him expelled because he liked the way the player looked at him, in England, however, argue that the measure is motivated by "verbal violence" even if Rattini Kreitlein and speak different languages \u200b\u200band the player has repeatedly called for the intervention of an interpreter. The Argentinians have the feeling that a conspiracy is in place to remove them from the competition, a feeling that becomes more strong (albeit probably not justified) after Ken Aston, the English supervisor of referees comes into play to convince Rattini to leave the field, and even more so when Geoff Hurst scored the goal-victory, from a position held by opponents an offside.

At the end of that game the English manager, Alf Ramsey, called the Argentinians "animals". A perceived form of racism that has added meaning to one of the most intense rivalries in the history of football and sport.

explains Daniel Bertoni: "Playing against England is not like playing with other national, neither the English nor the French nor with Italy, a nation well from which many Argentines are descended, and even Brazil. That rivalry with England is a classic, for reasons political, historical, but also because we feel that football is our game when we play against England and we try to say what we feel like ours. "

Roberto Perfumo, who was captain for seven years, wrote for the main national newspaper, is the author of a book in its brutal honesty about football, "Playing football and even an expert psychologist goes further:" When British companies were the first brought football to us, the Argentines could not play with them. For as we see they have always the superiority of English, even though they know they have to fight so if they want to beat us. Win against Argentina is like for the students beat the masters. "

A feeling of revenge that the "students" on the "masters" who breathed and is seen clearly in 1982 when, with the echo is not completely dormant patriotism of exasperation on the success of Mundial in the house, the military junta ago war to the British for the possession of the Falkland Islands, or Malvinas to Argentines.

The Falklands War
On 22 December 1981 the Argentine Army General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri took the post of president for life with absolute power and pursues systematic repression of any political opponent: the "Plan Condor" in which all the Latin American dictatorships with the support of the U.S..

The policy of "national reorganization", however, generates only discontent. The military hopes to regain public support by focusing on nationalism and the Falkland seem an easy task. The dispute over the small archipelago, 300 miles from Tierra del Fuego, began in the sixteenth century in Spain (which then controlled the Argentina) and England who obtained control in 1833 and named in honor of the Falkland Viscount, treasurer of the Royal Navy.

The United Kingdom, which defends possession for the most strategic position for the actual revenues, seeks diplomatic solutions since 1965, but the 1800 inhabitants of Scottish descent opposed the return of the islands to Argentina, which calls for UN intervention.

Galtieri has cooperated with the CIA and is perceived as a bastion of anti-communism: a role by virtue of which he earned the praise of the Reagan administration. So I think you can have a free hand on the military for operations that do not disturb too much the western allies.

The conservative politics of Reagan, however, is not too far from that of Margaret Thatcher. And England, the mid-eighties, not through a period flourishing. The recession is spreading, multiply strikes and protests and elections are approaching underdog who see the Conservative Party. The attitude of the Argentine on the Falklands offers different opportunities for the Iron Lady.

The Argentine invasion materializes to 21 of April 1, 1982, when a commando of 84 members of the Armada Argentina led by Lieutenant Commander Guillermo Sánchez-Sabarots leave the destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad (D-2). At the same time the submarine ARA Santa Fe lands 10 other raiders to fill the Lighthouse San Felipe. 1 .30-Sabarots Sanchez's men are divided: group, commanded by Sanchez himself, rushes towards the barracks of Marines British Moody Brook, the second goes to Puerto Argentino / Port Stanley to capture the governor. They do not know, however, that the British, forewarned, had emptied the barracks and the residence of the Governor are entrenched three Marines killed three Argentine soldiers, including Lieutenant Commander Pedro Giacchino. The Argentines, with position changes and flash-bang grenades are believed to be facing British forces in excess of the real ones. At 8:30 am Governor Hunt and Major Norman discuss the possibility of starting a guerrilla war, but believing surrounded, offer an hour after the surrender of Admiral Busser. On 2 April, Galtieri

hoisted the flag in the capital, now renamed Puerto Argentine and a cheering crowd in Plaza de Mayo celebrated in Buenos Aires. In Europe, however, the reception is much less festive. On 10 April, the European Union voted economic sanctions against Argentina, approved by all but Italy and Ireland. The U.S., while not uttering sentences diplomatic damage to spy on British military aid, while leaving that for the reconquest of the islands.

Galtieri had not expected to face a war of great proportions. On the island there are young recruits, inexperienced and unprepared, with obsolete weapons, which do not already know how to respond to the first raid of the aircraft carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible on 19 April.

Another blow, probably the heaviest for the Argentine army, is the sinking of the ARA Belgrano, torpedoed on May 2 by the nuclear-powered submarine Conqueror. The attack, which occurs just outside the exclusion zone, sea, killing 323 crew members. The psychological impact is devastating. The Argentine fleet is locked for the duration of hostilities.

Simultaneously the Argentine army can no longer groped the way for diplomatic mediation and Galtieri has no way to settle successes: the population understands that the British mean business and that the conflict will be neither easy nor quick. The problems

great for both armies, are logistical. The more than thirteen thousand Argentine soldiers are forced to travel on foot, ill-armed and stocks. For the British, so far away from the motherland, any delay in supply is likely to be fatal.

The British Army can still count on the support of the U.S. and develops in early June on the offensive end, preceded by SAS paratrooper landings and amphibious troops. Port Stanley falls on June 14. The war ends on 20, after 74 days of fighting, with 258 victims between the Argentines and 649 British. For

Galtieri is the end, even politics. After a year of vacillating government, in 1983 the people of Argentina can return to vote in free elections. Margaret Thatcher is reconfirmed, however, at the helm of England and strengthen its parliamentary majority. The inhabitants of the Falkland Islands get benefits of citizenship and the islands over the years become a major tourist destination.

All in ninety minutes

"In 1986 there was enough to beat England, that was our primary goal: to win the World Cup was secondary for us." So Roberto Perfumo recalls the feelings of the dominant first quarter-final is intended to make World Cup history. Ninety minutes in which you concentrate on the best and worst, the talent and the anger, hatred and pride, Mano de Dios and the goal of the century.

England, forget the glory days of two decades earlier, he risked elimination in the first round, but Bobby Robson's team relies on goals from Peter Beardsley and Gary Lineker, who made three goals and two in Poland Paraguay and qualify for the quarterfinals. Argentina, which still has not forgotten the outcome of the Falklands War, immediately shows that his style of short passing, faster and enchant the Azteca in Mexico City. 8 'Maradona is to fit space but is spread by defender Terry Fenwick 25 meters from the door. Peter Shilton, the English goalkeeper, deviation angle in the resulting free-kick.

But England to create the first true thrill of the game. Everything stems from the passage Glenn Hoddle's point guard who tries Beardsley; Pumpido, the number one albiceleste, slides and opens the face of goal but the Newcastle striker ends into the side netting.

Argentine coach, Carlos Bilardo, is not satisfied and asked the team to pick up the pace. Maradona satisfies him and began to harass the opponent's defense with a series of dribbling that apply to the Argentine national team a number of dangerous punishment from the limit: one of these, the 33 ', is close to the pole. Shilton thanks.

I do biancocelesti the game, and the British defenders fall into the trap of nervousness. At 40 'Terry Butcher throws an elbow in the face to Maradona, and if you think of Ipswich Town stopper to put out the Pibe de Oro has his predictions wrong. The result is still the range of 0-0. But the story is yet to be written.

Six minutes into the second half. Maradona cut inside from the right, passes diagonally Valdano low shot to the edge of the area and continues its run expecting to receive the touch of a partner's return. Its passage, however, ends up just behind Valdano and is intercepted by Steve Hodge, folding defensive midfielder left (at the end of the game will switch his jersey with just one of Maradona). His attempt to raise, however, is clumsy and the ball rises. Peter Shilton out but, despite being in the top twenty centimeters more than Pibe de Oro, you anticipate that Maradona touched the ball with his left fist.

"I was waiting for my teammates to come and embrace me," he said afterwards. "I explained to them, come and celebrate with me, or the referee will cancel the goal." But the Tunisian Ali Bin Nasser has not seen the touch of his hand and validate the network. Argentina is in the lead. In the post-match press conference Maradona will say: "That goal was scored with a little la cabeza de Maradona y otro little with the hand of God". In his autobiography he sums up, not without a hint of complacency, the cunning, the impropriety. "It 's been a little' how to steal the portfolio to an Englishman. "

For this, he says, still a bit 'prefer that the second goal, scored just four minutes later, what we all now call "The Goal of the Century." Hector Enrique goes to Diego, a dozen meters from the halfway line. The Pibe de Oro jumps Glenn Hoddle, Peter Reid, Kenny Sansom, Terry Butcher and Terry Fenwick and arrives in area. "My intention was to pass Valdano" he explained, "but once I found myself in the area surrounded by opponents. I did not have space, I had to continue the action. " And the action continues. Maradona also jumps Peter Shilton and score into an empty net.



Part of credit for that goal is his brother, who had criticized because, having tried a similar slalom in a friendly at Wembley in 1980, he preferred instead to pull around the goalkeeper Ray Clemence. None, however, know if Maradona would attempt a similar action and put into practice the advice even at 0-0.

England, however, as expected before giving up skiing in all its reserves of energy and fighting spirit. At 69 'Pumpido, the Argentine goalkeeper, was forced to a flash is not easy to raise the penalty over the crossbar from 25 yards to Glenn Hoddle, probably the best of her. Robson asks the team to insist, to be more aggressive and has especially on the contribution of Chris Waddle and John Barnes on the outside.

And it is the wing of Watford to sign the assist for Gary Lineker than 12 minutes to go shorter distances scoring his sixth goal of the World. The British hope to come back, but the Albiceleste try now to turn off the enthusiasm of the Three Lions. 82 'Maradona exchange with the newcomer Carlos Tapia, Kenny Sansom and goes around shooting that ends, however, a little off.

One last thrill runs behind the backs of South America, three minutes from time. The action is identical to the goal from Lineker. Barnes' cross from the left, which seems to divert the attacker Everton winning, but in extremis Julio Olarticoechea can to divert and save for a corner. Argentina is in the semifinals. For the English

disappointment is bitter. "We beat Paraguay in the last round, we thought that this could be our year," he explained a few years after Terry Butcher. "After the match, I, Gary Stevens and Kenny Sansom were in the room for doping. We just wanted to hurry as soon as possible when it comes Maradona. It really was the last person I wanted to see at that time. Sure, he had scored a great goal, but the goal of hand is not forgivable. And the sad thing is that I was fooled twice. He spoke no English, and I did not speak English, but I still asked if she had touched with head or hand. He has touched his head. "

In his autobiography, about the game, Maradona writes: "Even if we had said before the game that football had nothing to do with the Malvinas war, we knew that they had killed a lot of guys from Argentina, they were killed as little birds. This was our revenge. "

Thursday, May 20, 2010

How To Adjust A Carburetor On A Yamaha Phazer



I read a fine article by Marcello Veneziani on The Journal of Monday, May 17.
E 'an article on corruption and dishonesty so prevalent in our country. I report the following excerpts. For me the most meaningful and acceptable: The eternal
Italy has raised the underworld the ridge ... Yes, we are not back to Tangentopoli. Corruption then was a system, there was a political organization of ill repute. Not today, corruption is not a system. But not because it is isolated, sporadic, crushed by the rigor and honesty, but because it is private, dusty, diffuse. It is not organized and do-it-yourself, rely on occasional cracks in the provisional cordate, more crafty around the neighborhood. Small cunning, great stupidity ... The underworld is a serious problem for the government, for the PDL and Berlusconi. And it is the confirmation of two things we say from a life that center-right, like it or not, a great leader and a great people voters - free, civil and reasoned - but not in the middle of a leadership worthy of the name. The other: the political needs of ideal passion, otherwise it is dark and gray, and leaves room for shady appetites. It takes content, projects, visions or not ... There is this corruption, this malfeasance? Here, I believe that in too many cases there. Then you can add that there is only right and there is certainly now. You can also say that the media and prosecutors exaggerate the extent of ill repute, who shoot on the pile, or confuse the offense with the malpractice ... But heck, there's the dishonesty. It is anger and disgust ... The real responsibility of Berlusconi is that he selected those around him and a ruling class proper. As often happens with strong personalities, self-centered, has neglected around him, along with capable and honest people, there was also Gentucca unscrupulous or without quality. Of course, the tragedy of politics is often the best that are out of politics, they are afraid of being overwhelmed as a theater or disgraced. And the additional tragedy is that often the good souls are incapable of governing, they have a practical sense, it takes perseverance, character, guts to embark on some business or manage heavy things, and often strong and tough characters who know how to manage them, are without scruples. But that is where we must leave ... must ... start the revolution of merit and quality. How? Launch three criteria and a proposal. The first: the political examined one by one and ask yourself what is left of them when they remove the charge that they cover. If anything is not worth nothing. Discard them. The second, to reopen the ruling classes who thinks, who is motivated, those who have passion for politics. Here it was no longer right, which once had a thousand faults, but had strong reasons ideals. You do not govern with the Pasionaria, I said it before, but serves as a criterion in selecting the political motivation, if not, whether the treat is hidden behind the head, then it is suspect and dangerous. The third criterion is the gender policy more open to women, are more attentive, more meticulous, more honest with the public money. Maybe use the seduction, sometimes sex, but women are almost never involved in corruption and bribery. Make room for them, not for the stupid logic of the shares rose, but because they are less prone to dishonesty. Finally, the proposal queen. The selection can be done only if it is part of a sweeping reform of the system: and then head to halve the political personnel. Volunteers in political will, but paid half the commissions. Halving the parliament, local authorities halved, halved the advice, the chairman, the authority. It should be clear in the half to take a selection. Perhaps facilitated by an electoral reform that includes commands such as democracy, the voters can choose the elect. But those are the steps required to redress the policy and cut the rot together with the costs ... (Marcello Veneziani)

It was quite a while 'I wanted to write on this subject which, as the Venetians, "is anger and disgust." His speech took away the words of mouth, almost entirely reflecting my thoughts. Although I think there is a good dose of utopia in its proposals, and I just think they should be taken seriously by those who govern us. From my point of view, the "revolution" brought by the Venetians should be even more radical. But who can implement it? We really in the hands of a caste that is integral and fundamental part of this system of ill repute, and that will never relinquish the privileges acquired. Unless someone will come to sweep it away. Attila

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the most beautiful parts of the World: 1970

Italy-West Germany 4-3

"The real kick is part of the epic. .. running, jumps, throws, flights of the ball under geometry or labile or consistent. " Gianni Brera begins his piece of commentary on the "game of the century," gift of a goal from AC Milan last breath of air dodges Schnellinger Germany. Without the diversion to 92 'Aztec would not have played extra time, those 30 minutes of running, jumping, shooting, ball flight variable geometry, which convinced the Mexican Aztec to build a monument to remember that that game was really played, and had played in almost 3 000 meters high, where there was to calculate the effect of reduced atmospheric density, the hunger for oxygen, the decrease in air speed at high altitude, which can influence the trajectory of the launch of any tools. And the 'Magnus effect, ie the' effect of slippage of the molecules on the surface of the ball, which rotates countermarch or speaking in favor of the motion.

"Memory Game" Brera still remembers, "was exciting and spectacular in the competitive aspect: it ended well for us, and this is his most precious in my eyes downcast. Under 's technical and tactical aspect, it should be remembered with great dismay. Both Italians and the Germans have done the impossible to lose it. We have managed the Germans, "he calls" dumb here because we have almost always fought. In football that is also the 'cunning tactics not only the truculence' s commitment, the fund athletic and technical skill. "

L ' Italy, defined by a Belgian journalist a "savings bank", came to the semifinals after a round in which he scored only one goal against Sweden , with the collaboration of a large door on a Scandinavian Domenghini shot from distance. Then the two 0-0 with Uruguay and Israel, and the marked success against Mexico in the knockout stages.

Nell ' Italy there are divisions, disagreements, rivalries, jealousies. lI Dr. Mandelli minimizes a resounding crash. Rivera, who first threatened to leave the world and was convinced to withdraw its warlike intentions by Nereo Rocco, indulged in a violent outburst against the technical Valcareggi. The dressing room, like all the ' Italy, land of factions and divisions, extremists on both sides and parallel convergences, is divided between pro-and pro-Rivera Mazzola: would the defenders in the Inter camp, which runs more and does run less risk, and the attackers Riva Boninsegna means better with Milan.

For the semi-final, Valcareggi choose to start the same ones who beat Mexico 4-1: Alberto, Burgnich, Facchetti, Bertini, Rosato, Wax, Domenghini, Mazzola, Boninsegna, De Sisti, Riva.


The Germans have legs extra time with the British. The game begins with the German attack el ' Italy to defend himself with ardor, even excessive, but the Japanese referee Yamasaki is a large sleeve.

At 7 'Boninsegna exchange with Riva, maybe it simply returns the ball badly on the tow contrast with Berti Vogts. A Bonimba back a dirty ball, but the left from 20 yards is clean and successful. Italy 1 - 0 West Germany.

The Mannschaft pulls grit and power. The Germans play with three strikers and a half the wings more torque Seeler Muller-goal. The first ends once, and a second does not arrive on the vertical integration of Beckembauer, stopped at 17 'by Facchetti in the area: the penalty tax, but would perhaps not entirely unjustifiable. The second finishes but does not pull. So forcing the German results in only two shots Grabowski: foil Rose and Albert.

In the first half hour Germany controls the game, but Defence 's Italy holds. The major threats come from the Mannschaft Uwe Seeler, the 34 year old striker dell'Amburgo, in his fourth world, which can put your head on just about every kick in its frontcourt. Muller also gradually enter into the game, but can not control the cross omnipresent Overath: Alberto goes well and safe. It is also repeated at 31 'on the turn from twenty yards of the same striker. In the final

Riva has a couple of half chances, but at 40 'wasting of the head and 42' turns bad, Maier save for a corner.

Mazzola and Boninsegna before the game had been warned that one of them was replaced by Rivera. But how to remove the author the goals of the benefit? So out Mazzola, probably the best field in the first half.

The German pressure grows, the Mannschaft up behind the center of gravity but likely. Near the 5 'and Rivera to 12' can beat a network, but do not operate properly, Maier para without too much trouble. Calls to Domenghini Valcareggi overtime, which must mark Beckenbauer. But soon Schoen spariglia cards. Within the first Libuda, moved to the right in the path of Facchetti, then for Held Patzke. The Kaiser filter by Seeler, who loses the duel with Alberto close, repeated at 60 'on Grabowski. At 67 'Beckenbauer has space, but it snaps to the ground after the shoulder of Wax. The Germans want the penalty for the foul Yamasaki there was, but outside the box. The Kaiser is on the ground, has a dislocated shoulder. But the Germany has already completed two substitutions: it must remain in camp with a shoulder bandaged and immobilized.

At 69 'the whole' Italy holds its breath. Bertini's weak back pass, Muller Albertosi anticipates and supports for Grabowski, touch for Overath, shot and goal. L ' Italy back to breathe.

The game becomes a German siege. Seeler is a door with Bertini (forgiven for a foul that could have been by penalty), Held on the fly but runs Rosato save on the line. Seeler Muller and waste a couple of chances in succession. In midfield, the ' Italy sinks Domenghini no longer has and Rivera can not be asked to become a distance runner. The attackers come back soon, while the Germany attacks with Libuda, Seeler, Muller, Held, and Grabowski, Overath and Beckenbauer more if needed. The blues are on the ropes, apparently without even the energy break. The minutes pass, the Germany foam anger and blows every scheme and strategy. At 92 minutes and 30 seconds, Grabowski center from the left, the center is the most unlikely of bomber, Schnellinger, "der Italiener", the back of the AC Milan striker consumed with a fatal blow by the door Germany in extra time. Without him, without the only goal in national dell'antidivo who are still living and working in Milan with his family, Italy - Germany would never become the Game of the Century.

The additional fall on us and invigorate the Germany. Rosato , battle with Muller, he hurts himself and enters Poletti. After 4 'Poletti's just the path of the cross from the right of Held that Seeler finishes. Poletti should sweep but it does not, call the exit Albertosi but the two did not know and do not understand. Muller puts you in the middle, comes first and slips under the body of Fiorentina goalkeeper. In five minutes everything changed.

But the pages of this story is still widespread. Schoen continues to play with WM, does not exploit the difficulties in covering Rivera, and pay duty. Vogts fouls on Riva. Punishment of Rivera looking for a top cushion, but found only free but Held bad on the feet of Burgnich. The defender responds back to AC Milan: 2-2.

The Germans, despite a game that has drained all the energy, continue to attack en masse. But to cover the space becomes increasingly difficult, and being punched on the break as an alternative no longer distant and theoretical. The cunning tactics prevail on walking. And 'the 14' half-time substitute. Domenghini to give check left and crossed low and Bergheim, Riva check with the outside left, discard Vogts and pretends a detour to the flag. Then, suddenly, comes the twist of the neck: the diagonal is dazzling and deadly. The Germany bites the handlebar is down again, but as good Teutonic tradition bends but no strikes.

It 's always Seeler to play the position, and all of the following unexpected finding energy and motivation. The back in Germany, and benefits from a corner kick from the right. Libuda beats, Alberto Rivera put on guard near the pole. Seeler off to the left and puts in half, Muller runs from position seemingly impossible. The result is a trajectory poisonous, weightless. Albertosi screams "your" in Rivera, but it seems to dodge it. It 's the 3 - 3, 10' from the end. Alberto Rivera throws up if he could seem to choke him. Rivera knows he has only one way to be forgiven, and the doorman says: I just have to go to score.

Ready e-Boninsegna duels with Schultz, but it is cooked and allows it through. The low cross back there are almost no German, and those few Riva brand. But the ball ends up in Rivera.

"... Rivera network! Rivera! 4 to 3! 4 to 3 ... Rivera's goal! What a wonderful game, Italian listeners! We can never thank enough our players to these emotions that we offer. Look at Rivera ... pretend that the unbalanced Maier. " Nando Martellini's voice fills the sleepless nights of supporters. Now the joke is really Germany. Rivera wrote an end to a game still remembered by a plaque outside the Azteca stadium.

In most final of Brazil's Pele and the complex of fulfillment that could nullify the dream, gives Rimet Cup to the green and gold and blue ruin the reception of the return from Mexico. Typhus, unfortunately, has a short memory. Not the story, fortunately.


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How Much Vanilla Sugar

The goal that knocks the Wall

" What happens when watching TV it feels split? [...] happened when Germany played against Germany." It happened, as noted by Gunther Grass in "My Century" June 22, 1974. Fifteen years earlier picconate of the Berlin Wall begins to fall in a summer evening in Hamburg, when East Germany first challenge for West Germany. It 's the third day of the elimination round of the World Cup. Both teams have already qualified for the second phase, but there is much at stake that night more.


The premises

In Germany in 1972 was a difficult year to forget, marked by the tragedy of the Olympics in Monaco and the triumph of national Helmut Schon on the roof of Europe after the Soviet Union 3-0 . Two years later, the Germans are leading candidates to succeed Brazil in the gold World Cup, playing with the advantage of field factor.

The basic structure of the Bayern Monaco arrives Nationalmannschaft: Franz Beckenbauer the flag, the goalkeeper Sepp Meier, the grim marker Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, the whimsical Paul Breitner, Uli Honess Handyman midfielder and scorer Gerd Muller.

In a time when the challenges of East and West are nearly normal, Bayern Monaco faces Dynamo Dresden in the second round of the Champions Cup, but surprisingly lost 3-2 at home. Come back rooms now 2-0, 4-0 and reaches across the top of the second half. Ahead 6-3 in the complex, the Bavarians feel safe, but the Dynamo scored three goals in a short time, but the dream fades with the network of qualified Gerd Muller. Bayern then that would have lifted the Cup-eared May 17, shutting down three years of unchallenged domination of Ajax's total football.

other side of the wall of the football star comes only through the TV. In Oberliga, the First Division of East Germany, the movements are restricted and tightly regulated, and transfers decided by the sports minister. There are no salaries, officially the players are amateurs, although in reality the situation is different. The players are paid secret bonuses are recognized as significant to those who can get a result against Dynamo Berlin, the team of the Stasi, the secret police.

The technical level is not, however despicable, so that the Magdeburg, a small team of Saxony, May 8, 1974 reached the final of the Cup Winners Cup . It 's the first team of the German Democratic Republic to play for a continental title. In Rotterdam in front of Milan's Gianni Rivera, the bench headed by Giovanni Trapattoni, who only the year before he stripped the shirt player.

On paper there is no game. On the one hand there is a provincial team, composed of semi-unknown players who knew how to take advantage of a draw that kind has been opposed to the formation of a single survey, the Sporting Lisbon eliminated in the semifinals. The other is the most titled Italian team abroad, but now understands that winning will not be easy. Milan is a tired old team, Rivera can not disguise the inadequacy of the system, the smears and Anquilletti Schnellinger now on Sunset Boulevard, and an attack that can no longer score. Then, at 43 'a fairly innocuous cross was deflected by Lanzi evil that puts behind its doors, Pizzaballa: Magdeburg is the interval 1-0 ahead.

AC Milan fails to respond. Perhaps the Rossoneri were expecting a crushed all opponents in defense, and find themselves surprised by the German football athletic. Good deals for Magdeburg multiply and fifteen minutes from the end Wolfgang Seguin doubles. The Germans won 2-0 and lift the cup.

Seguin is one of the "four musketeers" of that team, along with striker Martin Hoffman, director Jurgen Pommerenke and midfielder Jurgen Sparwasser, with those legs "brevilineo tall" in the words of Gianni Brera and a technique. Constitute the basis of the national DDR, supplemented by Hansa Rostock striker Joachim Streitch and charismatic defender of the Carl Zeiss Jena Bernd Bransch, a few months before becoming a true national hero.

Under the guidance of coach Georg Buscher East Germany have qualified for the World Cup by winning their group behind Romania, Finland and Albania. After a smooth start, the Germans lost 1-0 in Bucharest, May 27, 1973, and are passed over at the top of Romania. The return match in Leipzig became a playoff. Central manage to cram into the stadium 95 000 spectators in ecstasy for the two goals of the master Bransch DDR doors which open to the World Championship. In the last round match of the East Germany beat Albania 4-0 with two goals and goal Streitch Lowe and Sparwasser.

The qualification of East Germany became a political case from the start. In December, the Federation denies coach Georg Buschner permission to attend the draw ceremony in Frankfurt because he fears a flight to the capitalist West. The urn is fun to add more power by putting the two Germanys in the same group, group C, together with Chile and Australia. The "Brother-Duell", the conflict between brothers, is scheduled to last day Volksparkstadion.

The Bruder-Duell

When the two captains Franz Beckenbauer Bernd Bransch and shake hands and exchange pennants, that gesture is loaded with meaning and responsibility beyond the immediate pre-match ritual. They know the twenty-two players on the field, they know the fans who fill the stadium, including the East who have arrived in Hamburg by train on a tourist visa valid only for those 90 minutes. They know the workers, workers who remained on the other side of the wall to watch the game on television. You know the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, which has sent hundreds of agents mixed with the fans with the order to encourage the team at hand, polite, "7-8-90-10-large." They know the political leaders of West Germany that, two years after the tragedy Monaco have had to deal with the threat, however, remained only that, the Baader-Meinhof of Volksparkstadion stuffed with TNT and blow it up just that on June 22.

East Germans have to cover the absence of Streich, injured. Buschner opts to enter Kurbjuweit Kreischa and in midfield and forward Sparwasser and Hoffmann. Schon has provided the entire rose: there is only one variation from the starting lineup, Floh in the field instead of Jupp Heynckes.

tension, fear, all the meanings that characterize the meeting block legs and ideas of the players. From the first whistle of the referee Uruguayan Ruiz Barreto for more than 40 minutes does not happen practically nothing. As long as Gerd Muller controls the ball in the area after an action confused and turn right in torsion: pole. After a couple of minutes the teams go to sleep.

interval DDR returns a more confident, more determined. In fifteen minutes the median Reinhard Lauck Overath burns on the shoot from outside but his right is a little off. At 69 'Schon tries to change in the running: replace with Schwarzenbeck Hottges Overath and off with Gunther Netzer, "the king pleasure-seeking" in Monchengladbach driving a Ferrari and runs a nightclub. Borussia Monchengladbach Bayern Monaco at the time and contend for the primacy of football German rivals, as the captains, Netzer and Beckenbauer, who together won the European title in 1972. Netzer In 1973 he moved to Real Madrid, but it seems that the rivalry with Beckenbauer has not stopped at all. According to the chronicles of Kaiser Franz would impose a preference for the ct Schon Wolfgang Overath Netzer, who played in Cologne. In those

world Netzer played only the final 22 minutes against West Germany, but curiously it is he once became general manager dell'Amburgo, to call the team Beckenbauer.

Netzer's entrance, however, does not bring the changes of pace that the coach would have hoped. The role is increasingly favored heavy for West Germany. And at 78 minutes Erich Hamann, entered at 66 'for Irschner, Sparwasser fishing area. striker with the jersey number 14, the same Cruyiff, control head, outrun Berti Vogts, avoid closing Hottges and terminating in the diagonal of the output Maier. East Germany is leading. It 's a worker goals, a striker who earns as a teacher in Italy and the medium that leads to humility inherent in the name of a vocation: Sparwassser fact means "the one that saves water." In a moment crumble the vaunted superiority of the Federal Republic, becoming the symbol of a nation and her mother is watching television to watch the game the other side of the wall.

His arms to the sky, the embrace of his teammates is accompanied only by the horns and the cries of the few oriental fans and the stadium fell silent. Beckenbauer continues to shout "nothing happened" , but something has happened. What Italy has to Kobarid, for West Germany is the Bruder Duell. The DDR Buschner, though disjointed and devolved into a senseless end, passed as the first in Group A.

At the end of the game, at first no one wants to knit Sparwasser. "Hell, he smelled so terrifying," said years later. Sparwasser, held by journalists, out of range for last. The wait in the tunnel leading to the locker room Overath, Paul Breitner. And 'he who gives the shirt the attacker. In 2002, after the great flood, Breitner auctioned to help the victims of the disaster; Sparwasser follows him, convinced even by his grandson. The two links were purchased for € 35 000 and donated to the House of History in Bonn.

The next day the newspaper of the East "Fuwo" moderate choose a title: "The tactic of Buschner harnesses the perfect opponent" . There is no mention of class struggle and political significance. In those meanings that have forced Sparwasser not to join the party with their peers on the streets of the city: images of any symbol as a player he got in too little covered in the West permissive attitudes would be an unbearable image damage for the propaganda of the regime. A regime that tries to appropriate at once that goal, which becomes the symbol for a year of many sports programs, however, a momentous victory. "The success of football even more clearly highlight the superiority of our socialist order in the sports," said Erich Mielke, minister of the Stasi.

Around the hero of Hamburg, at a time without internet and blogs, flower legends of a car, a new house and a large bank account data in premium Sparwasser. But none of this is true: authors of the players agreed to be just the reward of 2,500 marks each for the next round .

Someone, meanwhile, began to sow doubts about the other game, he begins to throw the suspicion that the White Westerners have in a sense tried to defeat. Why the West, despite the second place finish in the round easier than the second round. They beat Yugoslavia, Sweden and Poland win the final and then won in a comeback on Holland Crujiff and total calcium. The

DDR, however, access to play the final with Brazil, Argentina and Holland. Lost with the green and gold and oranjes, draw with the Albiceleste and go home. But home is still accepted and triumphantly continues the golden age began with the Olympic bronze in '72 Monaco, with the gold medal at the Games in Montreal in 1976 and three in five circles in Moscow in 1980.

Hip

Twenty-one months before the picks will fall of the Berlin Wall, Jurgen Sparwasser jumps the barricade and goes to the West . At the time, teaches education at the University of Magdeburg. The regime has obliged him to coach the team but he refused. For this risk also missed the chair and realized that it's time to escape. And it does so at the earliest opportunity useful.

was invited to a lot of old stars in the Federal Republic and his wife, after three waste, get a visa to go to the West. Taking advantage of poor control of the Stasi, the couple did not go back. The symbol of the communist regime, the rescue worker succumbs to lure Westerners. "We used to travel , I knew what life was like in capitalism, I had the trauma of the achievements unmatched."

Sparwasser, together with Falko Goetz, Norbert Jurgen Pahl and Nachtweih, is among the first players of East Germany in go West and follow the dream of a career in the Bundesliga after suffering a disqualification for 12 months by FIFA for failing to meet the current contract with the previous teams.

Sparwasser Since that time he lived near Frankfurt, Eintracht offered him a job as a coach, also became president of the union footballers . The fall of the wall triggers hopes, soon disillusioned. "I expected something more for the 'East did not go well and I said to' former Chancellor Kohl, on TV. It 'been destroyed, for money, all that was the DDR, not understanding to save the good part: the' formal education and sports, the social solidarity. We wanted freedom and deserve I do not know if all are really happy today. "

Sparwasser Before the fall of the wall has also been called a traitor by the officials of East Germany but the prosecution did not erase the goal that in 1974 he approached a little 'more about the fall of the Berlin Wall. " only write on my grave: Hamburg stadium, June 22, 1974 " he said. "Just this , understand who I am." You can believe it.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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The first time you never forget

1972 - USA-USSR: The War of the Worlds


communism against capitalism, a challenge that transcends the sport. The final of the Olympic men's basketball tournament could not be a game like the others. In the city that had seen the birth of Nazism, in which a few days before an armed terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and delegates, as the war in Vietnam continues to make victims and Nixon continues to send troops, while the protests for a war that few understand and even less approve, a final between the U.S. and Russia can not be just a basketball game.

How did we get to the final

The youngest team I've ever represented the United States carries on his shoulders the weight of responsibility and history, sports and otherwise. Never a national stars and stripes had lost a basketball game at the Olympics: sixty-sixty-three wins out of matches, that's the outcome before the final in Monaco. But that group of university students, on the eve of the Games which will be remembered for the bombing of the Israeli team for eleven casualties for a war bigger than themselves, in a period in which ex once they stopped the war, had to behind only twelve friendly. While the Soviets were playing together for years, more than 400 matches.

The best-known names are U.S. national Thomas Henderson (San Jacinto Junior College), Bobby Jones (UNC) and future NBA coach Doug Collins (Illinois State). It lacked, however, the NCAA player of the year, the UCLA center Bill Walton. "The doctor advised him not to play in a season and the other," said legendary UCLA coach John Wooden. "Before every workout rubbing his knees for half an hour, and at the end for another half hour to apply ice packs." But it is not the only explanation that circulates. There are those who give reasons for his absence with the deep opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, those who speak of a negative experience during the World Cup in 1970 in Yugoslavia.

Leading the group of hopefuls Yankees old Henry Hank Iba, anchored to a vision of the old basket, away from the modern play all race and pressing. But the defensive solidity, his knowledge of the game, and especially his winning seemed to be a natural reason enough to promote the national Olympic coach.

The Soviets, led by the inside-out game between the guard and center Sergei Belov Alexander Belov, were anything but the underdog, will prove, indeed, the toughest opponents ever for the Americans. Also because for them there is an ideological charge more, derived from the desire to symbolically beat the "Western bloc", to swing the balance toward Moscow among the world's superpowers. Doing so, then, in the city symbol of the supreme evil of Twentieth century, Nazism, would increase the depth of meaning of victory. Alexander Gomelsky recounts: "The first meeting between us basketball dates back to 1959, during a friendly tournament: they won 8 games out of 8. We have learned from them the pressing, fast trade, but we were excellent students. We were afraid of losing because we knew that we would be punished, that we would lose our privileges. " Gomelsky was the national coach, but he was jew, and the KGB he might desert in Israel, took his passport. On the bench for the Olympic tournament, went Vladimir Kondrashin.

Without great talent on the team, U.S. soft start with a 66-35 success over Czechoslovakia, Thomas Henderson with 16 points and Dwight Jones 15. Ed Ratcliff puts on the scoresheet 18 '81-55 while Jones is on Australia's top scorer with 18 points, 67-48 on Cuba in the struggle over Brazil, beaten 61-54, it is easy to give up Egypt , 96-31 with 17 points from Mike Banton, Spain 72-56, and Japan (99-33 with seven players in double figures. In the United States reached the semifinals of 30 points, 68-38, Italy, which then lose the final with Cuba for the bronze with 14 points and ten other of James Forbes Henderson.

It 's a team that scores a little at the end of the tournament will Topscorer only 9.2 points per game, but gives very few points to opponents, and you start to play for the entry into history Saturday, September 9, four days after the massacre that has moved the world and urged Egypt to withdraw its delegation, with two-ball to 23.45 to accommodate the American TV, so they can show the game live in prime time .

The final

A partial 7-0 puts it very clear the intentions of the Soviets. But the U.S. develop a game ordered and arrive at an acceptable interval -5, at 21-26. The balance also holds in the first half of the recovery. With 12'18 "still to play the Soviets are ahead of 4, 38-34. But here, Dwight Jones, leading scorer and rebounder U.S. will be ejected with Ivan Vasilevich Dvornij Edeshko, a reserve to be accused by the U.S. entry to provoke their opponents. What's more, two on the ball that marks the resumption of play, Jim Brewer, one of the strongest American players, a giant of 2.6 in 1982 to win a European Cup of Canterbury, is pushed, falls ill and must come out injured.

The U.S. should be less than ten points. But when the game seems over, when the hopes falter, that group of hopefuls university becomes a proud team that does not take losing well, and start playing as he had ever made during the tournament. Forty seconds from the end of a marker Forbes reports the national stars and stripes to -1, on 49-48. The Soviets feel playing with the stopwatch, but ten seconds from the end have to take the shot, by Alexander Belov, stopped by the future virtussino Tom McMillen. Doug Collins intercepted the loose ball, which McMillen had tried to revive towards the center of the field, and run the fast break but was stopped while trying to foul layup. Doug Collins is on the bezel for the possible first, and certainly decisive U.S. advantage. The trial marks three seconds to play. They are the three seconds that change the world.


The 3 seconds that change the world

The U.S. call for a time-out period: we must decide the tactics to use, both when free throws are scored, and we is therefore to defend the first advantage of the game, whether they are wrong, then try and serve a rebound in attack to take the last shot of the match. But above all there is to be assessed if Collins is still able to play or pull free. Otherwise it can always be replaced by a companion who would go in his place on the bezel. The coach keeps the player on the field, because Collins wants to take them and place it in spite of stunning bezel. The first enters: 49 peers. Collins is cool, is not swayed by the importance of the match, the situation of fear. The future head coach of Michael Jordan makes the second: 50-49, passing stars and stripes.

Or not? Collins has just left after the second free throw on the table when the official part of the siren. At least one of the referees look to the table, as if to somehow fix the error, but the game was not stopped. The ball is alive, and the Soviet Union is less than one. But Bashkin, an assistant coach Vladimir Kondrashin Soviet Union was furious, leaves the technical and cries that the USSR had called a timeout that should have been granted before the second free throw. Since it was not successful, however, the Soviets there was nothing to do but put the ball in play, without having a clear strategy for the last three seconds of the race.

The Soviets call into play the palla, ma non appena il portatore di palla supera la linea mediana, i continui disturbi al tavolo spingono uno degli arbitri a interrompere ancora il gioco, a un secondo dalla fine.

L'arbitro, l'architetto brasiliano Renato Righetto, che arbitrava la terza (e rivelatasi poi l'ultima) finale olimpica della sua carriera, ritiene che ufficialmente sia stata presa, dopo l'errore, la decisione di non consentire il time-out, anche perché il lungo rallentamento ha comunque consentito ai sovietici di stabilire una qualche strategia per la ripresa del gioco.

Eppure si stabilisce che il gioco, benché fermato a un secondo dalla fine, debba ripartire less than three seconds. A decision made with the decisive contribution of R. William Jones, secretary general of FIBA, the International Federation of basketball, present in the stands and down at the table of officers to review the replay. Too bad that Jones, at a later time, has declared that it had no authority to intervene on a running game.

The Soviets are the only thing possible. Long recovered from his own basket to the opposing bezel. But the timing marks 50 seconds. An American intercepts the ball and plays the siren. The Yankees cheered. But it's too soon. Again.

The siren is played too early. In basketball, in fact, the actual time not calculated at the time of the passage, but the timing is triggered when the first player receives the pass or when the opponent intercepts it.

The final three seconds to be replayed. Again. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to protest, because it is undeniable that there were technical errors, and have penalized the Soviets. And on the bench to get the U.S. on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Do not deny the existence of errors, but makes its way to suspect that the errors are far from random, that unforeseen technical.

Why US-Russia is not playing like the others. It 's the battle between two powers, between two blocks, between two worlds. And every act is a declaration, every statement a sign of membership, each membership is obedience to an ideology and a system of values, each error becomes a betrayal.

Haskins wants to bring them all out. "We could not believe," said the wing Mike Bantom years later, "It seemed like they wanted to replay those three seconds until they had won them." But the coach Hank Iba disagrees with Haskins. "I do not want to miss tonight by staying seated," he says. And such a gesture would be a betrayal, yes, the Olympic spirit, as well as to trigger a legal appeal by the USSR.

the third try, the center Tom McMillen Ivan must mark Edeshko responsible for calling the ball in play and make it difficult to complete the transition. But the referee Artenik Arabadjian makes a gesture, McMillen moves back a few feet, leaving the Soviet clear view. McMillan later admitted that although there is no rule that they need to maintain a minimum distance on the throw, he moved to the sign of the arbitrator to avoid a penalty against the team.

Arabadjian, however, has always denied that his gesture would serve to indicate McMillen taking a rearward position. In any case, Edeshko, with the clear view, you can complete the transition and reach across the field Alexandr Belov, which anticipates Kevin Joyce and Jim Forbes and sends them out of position. It may well mark the undisturbed layup of victory and the siren sounds. For the last time.

The after-match

The U.S. immediately deposit an official protest, tried by a Jury of Appeal consisting of five members. Italy and Puerto Rico voted in favor, Hungary, Poland and Cuba, the Soviet orbit all nations, against. The appeal is dismissed.

"Everything went strictly according to the policies of the Cold War," he wrote at the time Gary Smith in Sports Illustrated. "There were three judges of the Communist Bloc and the vote was 3 to 2. America has lost. The Soviet Union won the gold medal at which point the Americans had to face a bitter reality. Or not to accept the silver medal? "

" We had the feeling that something illegal, unlawful had been perpetrated against us, and we had no other way of protesting that say 'we do not see the medal 'gold around his neck ", so the captain Kenny Davis said the final decision of the team. At the awards ceremony the announcer from the speakers said: "The U.S. team refused to accept the silver medals. Do you think you deserve the gold. "

"If this was been an honest mistake, "said Brewer, a former assistant to the Toronto Raptors," we would have accepted. But the policy came into camp. "

the Soviets did not take kindly to protest the stars and stripes. For them, not accepting defeat amounts to a momentous lack of respect, they are still convinced that, after all, Americans do not know how to lose.

"I think now it hurts even more," said Edelman. "The United States won the Cold War. But they never recognized us, of victory in that game. "

"It was the first time I lost," said Edeshko some time ago, "and the first time you never forget. It was the era of the Cold War, the U.S. was against Soviet Union, the sport at the time was political. But the United States are wrong to feel offended. Taken from their natural pride and love of country, were unwilling to admit defeat. Do not want to miss anything, especially basketball. "

"If we had lost to proudly show my gold medal today," replied Bantom. "But we were not beaten. We have been cheated. "

After the game, however, the U.S. Olympic Committee has again appealed to the IOC Executive Board. Again it was not successful, despite the help of the referee Righetto who called the Soviet victory "completely illegal, outside the rules of basketball." The referee has particularly criticized Jones for his insistence on calling the timer to 3 seconds (not less than one second) to suspend the game and explained the initial confusion with a language barrier between himself, who spoke only Portuguese, and the board of arbitrators, all German.

Thirty years have passed, and the silver medals are still in a vault of the IOC in Lausanne. "I clearly wrote in my will that my wife and my children will never receive that medal," said Davis.

Because the first Once is never forgotten.