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A bit of football history

Since we are in WorldCup season, I guess it is unavoidable to talk about football. While watching some matches last week in the US with American colleagues and with Japanese colleagues in Tokyo this week, I have been trying to educate them a bit about football since many of them they either do not know anything about it (not even the rules) or they only know the very, very recent history (from Beckman and on). For instance, no one gets how good is the Adidas commercial that says "Jose+10" basically because they do not know who Platini or Beckembahuer are or what is to play football on the streets. Another football celebrity that is on TV a lot this WorldCup (the previous one he was not allowed to enter Japan or Korea due to his past legal issues) but that is not very well know either in the US or Japan is Maradona, Diego Armando Maradona so I have been trying to educate them about him since he is someone worth talking about.

So today is the 20^th anniversary of a historical day in football history, the day that Maradona scored with the “hand of God” against England and the day that Maradona also scored in the same match, what is considered the best goal in World Cup history, check it out in the video below (my first YouTube embeeded video in this blog), the quality is pretty bad but you can get what he did.

Listen also carefully to the English commentator saying “for God’s sake, someone stop this guy!!! It is hilarious. To put things in historical perspective, Argentina had lost just a couple of months before this WorldCup match a war against England, the Malvinas War (or the Falklands War as it is known among anglosaxons) so they were expecting revenge in the field and they did get it big time.

Argentina, after beating England that day, went on to win that WorldCup in a final match against Germany where Maradona played against a key role with a deadly passed towards the end that put Argentina up 3-2 and gave them their second WorldCup win.

CD

Not blogging at all recently, does it actually matter?

It has been ages (over a month) since I have updated my blog, the longest period of inactivity in my blog since I started back in November. Just too many things going on professionally and personally (soon you will find out as I will be posting about it in a couple of weeks). Fortunately, blog frequency does not matter anymore according to Eric Kintz (read his very interesting post in the topic here). I agree with most of the things he says, in my case, blogging is not about high traffic but about keeping an open discussion and communication with some colleagues and friends via my blog (so I do not need the frequency to increase the traffic) and due to my job responsibilities, I cannot agree more that frequent posting is not very compatible with a high pre assure job (the main reason I have not been blogging lately is lack of time and concentration to do so).

Also, RSS fatigue has definitely set in myself. I stopped reading a lot of blogs that post too frequently and only occasionally reading some of their posts if they get to the front page of Techmeme which has become my major source of blog reading after entirely dropping my RSS reader due to way too many feeds with too many posts being tracked there. Also, as I tend to write long posts, I cannot do it frequently unless I drop the quality of the content and I have never been a fan of just posting a short post linking to someone else (even though I have done it occasionally). Actually, that so many people do that in a large portion of their posts and add little value to the conversation has been one of the reasons I stop reading many blogs I used to follow. I might now be missing something interesting that person has to say because he also writes many non-interesting posts, clearly not a good think for that blogger.

So as a conclusion, I will repeat what Eric says on his blog (oh no, I am doing what I just said is not a good thing to do!!!), I will only post when I have something to say (and I have the time to do it).

CD