A loss, a win, and a BIG change
By: Scott | February 28th, 2008Yes, there is a pun in the title involving our (least) favorite oversized disaster of a striker. That is most important and will come last. I have the obligation of reviewing what has happened over the past two weekends first.The trip to La Bombonera was a urine-soaked disaster. That place is pretty and intimidating, but there’s urine leaking from the walls and that needs to be mentioned. Oh, the actual match, you ask? One team scored 4 times, one team failed to score…you guess which team is which.
Actually, things were pretty even for the first twenty minutes or so before the first goal was scored. Then things fell apart in a cesspool of lazy passes, slumped heads, and a lack of overall effort. Seventy minutes and three more goals later, the damage was complete and everyone can forget about the proceedings forever.
More recently, the boys welcomed Gimnasia de La Plata in La Paternal for the first home match of the season and things went much better. There is, as always, more to the story. Alejandro Delorte, whose reputation is that he plays well at the smaller field for home matches. And he did not fail to disappoint those who actually believe this. 30 minutes is all it took for him to take himself out of the match, due to some injury that I don’t really care about but I do hope is serious. Hope was quickly restored in the form of Gabriel Pérez–a name you will be reading a lot more of around here, I imagine. Pérez is only a few inches shorter than the aforementioned giant boob and he is so much quicker, more agile, and just plain better that a comparison simply is not fair. Sure enough, His actual talent at soccer paid off for the club as he set up both goals; the first on a long ball near the area that the defender actually sent in Mirosevic’s direction and the second on a long and well-timed run he made to set up Alvaro Pereira’s first goal of this campaign. All in all, he showed his stuff and has been rewarded with a starting spot for this Saturday’s match against Independiente.
I should take time to mention that Mirosevic, in addition to scoring the team’s first goal after 250+ minutes of play, showed that he is a significant upgrade over Cabrera: he’s big, fast, and smart. When he was able to combine with Peñalba, Pérez, Barzola or Hauché (the only players who have ny semblance of ability with the ball at their feet), he made good runs and kept the opposition guessing. Turning the season around and gaining actual points on the road might be possible just because he’s on the field with these others players.
Regarding Delorte, Pérez, and the immediate future, the talk all week had been that he would still be available to RETURN TO THE LINEUP on Saturday…WTF??? The only goals the team has generated all season came BECAUSE he was not on the field. There is no reason for him to reason to return until the current lineup declines in performance. Today, reports in the local paper said that he will most likely be on the bech Saturday night, which is fine, because he still probably is the third or fourth best striker on the team. Nevertheless, Gabriel Pérez will get his first chance to start and, should he perform at the same level he did last week, will remain there for a while…
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Tim-ber! From a comic standpoint, I will miss Delorte’s pratfalls. But Saturday should be great in at least one regard: Delorte and Ortigoza may actually be on the bench at the same time. 11-on-11 will be a nice change of pace.
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Your report on the game against Boca sucks.
Do you think people fromn Argentinos Juniors are more educated? Ask Maradona.
Have you ever been there,Scott?
It was 4-0 because Boca was far superior than AJ.
Al pan, pan y al vino, vino.Posted from
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Albo -
Boca Juniors is a much better team than Argentinos Juniors. I hope that there is no one in the world who would disagree with that sentiment.
I am struggling to understand where the “more educated” comment stems from. Could you explain?
I have been to La Bombonera a few times; I was there for the match. When my friends and I went down the stairs to leave, the stairs and walls were covered in urine. Literally. We had to be quite careful when leaving. There’s really nothing more to all of that. If you would like a more detailed summary of the match, I could definitely write it. My anger is not with Boca, its players, fans, etc….it’s with the representatives of AAAJ.
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Scott, you associate la Bombonera with urine on the walls.
Like if that doesn’t happen anywhere else.
People with little or no education urinate in many stadiums of the world (depending in which area of the stadium you are).
Now you are totally entitled to write whatever you please.
But I’m entitled to answer that your comment on the Boca-Argentinos match, sucks.
or am I not?The one thing that I’ve only seen at La Bombonera though, is the “dust” in the hallways.
Try to remember if you felt there was a lot of dust while walking.
That’s actually ashes. Yes.
Human ashes of fans who, when the time came, elected to stay there for good.
Esí es Boca. No con un simple meo en la pared.
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I never intended for the use of “urine-soaked” to be spread out over so much time. I was actually going to use it as a metaphor for the experience of an Argentinos fan at this period of time, but then I couldn’t finish it. Instead of taking out everything, I simply left it in there with no real explanation. I should have written the summary last week right after the match, but I never found the time. It was not a particularly riveting or important match outside of the fact that Riquelme returned again and played well.
I would also never deny the passion and history of Boca Juniors. It is a singular force in the history of world soccer…again, I would never deny that.
Thank you for reading the blog and commenting; please continue to do that often!Posted from
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Albo, sos un bosterito asqueroso, de esos que no entienden que se puede criticar al club mas grande de Argentina. Nadie niega la historia de Boca, ni la fama de la bombonera. Es verdad, late.
Tenes que entender y estar de acuerdo que tanto el barrio como la cancha, estan siempre sucios y en estado repugnante. Es por escandalo la cancha mas sucia de Capital, y estoy incluyendo a Excursionistas.
Pero mucho mas importante que eso, tenes que entender que este es un blog donde se escriben cosas sobre futbol, con un tono gracioso. Es gracioso remarcar lo del meo en la pared, y dejar como una anecdota las 4 pepas que se comieron.
SaludosPosted from
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Granjero,
Thanks for reminding me that this blog is suppoused to be “funny”.
Although you sound pretty upset yourself, dude.
What gives???
Tomate el bondi y volve a tu granja, granjero.
And come back when your constipation problems are over…
SaluttiPosted from
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Lo importante es lo que pasa en la cancha, no las boludeces que tiro yo.
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Well, as for ‘more-educated’, that’s just a weird thing to say since there doesn’t seem to be a lot of Tolstoy being read at ANY of the matches at ANY stadium, and I certainly don’t think someone would want to defend urine saturation. I’ve been to La Bombonera four times and the only time I didn’t puddle-splash in pee was on the official tour on a Monday after an away match. So, yes, Boca is the best, most-expesnive futbol team in Primera. But so are the Yankees in baseball and the Patriots in american football. And they can all gargle my balls. Viva the pee-free cancha and a crappy chori for less than 5 pesos.
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Tolstoy, no; there was, however, a heated discussion over the legitimacy of Pynchon’s worldview in the 21st century. I won and Martin didn’t know what he was talking about.
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