Category Archives: Jogo Bonito
One World Futbol
So this Tim dude is watching CNN one day, and some kids from Darfur are playing soccer using a make shift ball made out of twine and trash. So he thinks to himself: “Wouldn’t it be great if this kids … Continue reading
The World Cup at Alamo Drafthouse
The awesome Austin institution Alamo Drafthouse movie theater decided to show all FIFA World Cup matches live in one of their beautiful screens. This is probably the next best thing to being there, so I headed out there today to … Continue reading
South Africa thoughts (part 2)
This is part 2 of my two-part collection of random thoughts from South Africa. Part 1 is here. Click on Read more for part 2.
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Tagged 2010, fifa, southafr, southafrica, worldcup
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South Africa thoughts (part 1)
I wrote a bunch of random and mostly disorganized thoughts about my trip to the World Cup. I will break them up in a two posts in order to avoid boring my readers too much. Hopefully someone finds them interesting. Click … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, fifa, southafrica, southafrica2010, worldcup
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Would you let Maradona kiss you?
Tévez would not.
World Cup photos!
It took a lot longer than I had hoped for due to unforseen technical difficulties, but I am finally done going through the ~1500 photos we took in the last couple of weeks, selecting and post-processing, and have posted them to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Egypt, fifa, mexico, photos, southafrica, southafrica2010, worldcup
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I will run naked if Mexico wins the World Cup
If Maradona, Luciana Salazar, and Claudia Conserva can do it, so can I. So hear it goes: If Mexico wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup, I will run naked. Unless most of you don’t want me to (see poll). Yes, a … Continue reading
USA vs Algeria
If Americans cared about soccer as much as the rest of the world does, they’d be carving Landon Donovan’s face on Mount Rushmore right now. (link)
Uruguay vs Mexico
We lost 1-0 against Uruguay in a very tight match. Still enough to make it to the second round. We will be facing Argentina (again) in the Round of 16. The game was in Rustenburg, near Johannesburg. Getting there was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, fifa, mexico, southafrica, southafrica2010, uruguay, worldcup
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Ruthless 7-0
Just got back from Portugal vs North Korea. The Portuguese don’t realize that the N. Koreans will be shot once they return home. Our female readers will be disappointed that the Ronaldo close ups will have to wait until I … Continue reading
