Besides Kobe, nobody wants to talk to Messi

Monday, 25 August 08, 03:58 PM

This is the best gossip I got from inside the olympic Village (actually the second best, but the first one I will have to take to my grave). It is not new at all that players like Rafa Nadal, Ronaldinho, Kobe Bryant, and many others are like idols for the others misters and misses nobody from the Olympics.

"I was sorry for Nadal. He can't have lunch, he needs to take pictures with athletes every two minutes", told me a table tennis guy. "I saw Yao Ming being rude to a guy that asked for a pic", told me another.

These two guys and two others confirmed to me that Messi can walk alone the whole day that nobody wants to take a picture with him. "Nobody knows him", told me a girl from Brazilian volleyball.

Anyway, if nobody wants to talk to Lionel, Kobe Bryant himsel said he was dying to get to know the Argentinean. Kobe was at Brazil x Argentina game and also at the football final.

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Ambruse Vanzekin, what was in your mind?????

Monday, 25 August 08, 03:17 PM

BEIJING (CHINA) - Ambruse Vanzekin probably crossed Isinbayeva at the Olympic Village in his way to the Bird's Nest to play against Argentina the final.

This is the only reasonable excuse for the Nigerian keeper to go out of his small area to try to stop Argentina. This move was really unfortunate. Di Maria had no chance to score if the keeper stayed 'at home'.

Anyway, maybe this is hust my Brazilian part trying to believe Nigeria could win. But Argentina was the best and now they got this second gold medal and we don't have any (in football, in the overall standings at the Olympics Brazil comes first, of course).

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Confucius and the honesty

Friday, 22 August 08, 11:09 AM

 

My chat with the girl in the picture next to the Bird’s Nest was something like this...

- Hi, do you like Brazil?
- I love Beijing. I live here.
- Bra zil! BA GI (Brazil in Chinese). Brazil, not Beijing!
- Not so much
- What?
- Not so much. No.
- Really?
- Yes.
- Why are you wearing this t shirt anyway?
- I like the color

It is like Confucius always said: “Be honest and people will post about you at their blogs”

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Top 1 moment ‘I wish I could speak some Chinese’

Friday, 22 August 08, 07:34 AM

BEIJING (CHINA) - Communication is by far the biggest enigma from Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. It doesn’t matter if you know the name of your destination in Chinese. When you speak, they just don’t understand. The accent is so different that I already gave up.

For the worst moments, a telephone number with a friend who speaks the local language is the only option.

But, even the telephone can fail. So here is my sad history:

My accreditation is not valid for tennis. I am a huge fan of Roger Federer and I made a lot of effort to get a pass for one of his games. But, I had to do table tennis before as part of my work here. I had enough time. One hour left between the end of my article in the table tennis venue and the Olympic Green, where the tennis courts are.

So I asked a volunteer to help me to find a cab and tell him where he should go. They spoke 3 minutes in Chinese, looked at me and gave me lots of OK OK OK OK. After 50 minutes in the cab (wow) I was at the venue. 10 minutes to the game. Nice! I passed through security and finally I was there... in the BADMINTON VENUE!

I lost the game. Federer lost the game to James Blake. I definitely have to improve my Chinese beyond Ni Hao.  

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Wednesday, 16 July 08, 06:22 PM

EU NÃO SEI vocês, mas sempre que eu junto as palavras Ronaldinho e Milan, eu penso naquele golaço.

ERAM OUTROS TEMPOS. Jogos de grupo da Champions League no ano em que o Barcelona não foi campeão (2004/2005). Ronaldinho era o melhor do mundo e ainda estava bem longe da Copa do Mundo de 2006, onde começou sua fase ruim que perdura até agora.

RONALDINHO É RONALDINHO. O cara joga muito, tem 28 anos, e convenhamos que ainda dá para jogar muito até a Copa de 2014. Ou seu dinheiro de volta.

KAKÁ É KAKÁ - Será que ele fica? Se ficar, ganha a seleção brasileira também. Se o técnico fizer os dois jogarem bem juntos, mais o Pato ainda, fechou. Seja Dunga seja quem for antes/durante/depois das Olimpíadas, o time tem tudo para sair ganhando.

MALANDRO É MALANDRO - E o Ronaldo?

MANÉ É MANÉ - E como é que o Milan não libera o Kaká e agora vai liberar o Ronaldinho? Quero só ver.

NOSSA SENHORA DE ASSIS - E na Folha de São Paulo desta terça-feira aspas 'excelentes' do irmão do Ronaldinho, o Assis. O repórter pergunta, após o acordo fechado, como ficou a liberação do craque para as Olimpíadas. Assis: 'Não falamos sobre isso ainda, agora só queremos comemorar".

TRADUZINDO - Fosse realmente um assunto de interesse prioritário para ele, não teria ficado para depois.

E O PIOR é que deu certo. O Milan disse que vai liberar o cara.

KAKÁ? ESSE NÃO!

E AGORA? Kaká é mais importante que Ronaldinho no Milan e por isso não vai ou está menos prestigiado pelo tanto que falou desde junho e vai ficar de castigo na Itália?

 

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Saturday, 16 June 07, 02:38 PM

Época de especulações de transferência de jogadores é meu momento favorito no noticiário futebolístico. Vai começar agora e só termina em agosto.

A capa de hoje do Marca dá uma boa dimensão de como se fazem as coisas. Com o Real Madrid à beira de um título depois de 4 anos na fila, a atenção do periódico mudou de foco. Diz que o Real vai fazer uma SUPER OFERTA para Kaká. Os números seriam impressionantes.

- 80 milhões de euros pelo jogador
- 12 milhões de salário por ano para ele (3x mais que no Milan)
- 100% dos direitos de imagem para o jogador (nem Beckham conseguiu isso e Ronaldo, por causa dos direitos de imagem rachados com o Real, pagava para jogar em Madrid)

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Saturday, 31 March 07, 09:59 PM

Na falta de um futebol melhorzinho (infelizmente, Ronaldo não emendou depois daquelas primeiras atuações), digno de nota mesmo é o Fenômeno cultivando uma cabeleira no Milan. Será que é influência das madeixas de Nesta, Maldini, Pirlo e cia?

 Reuters no Yahoo

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Ronaldo scores his two first goals for Milan

Sunday, 18 February 07, 05:02 PM

Ronaldo played 90 minutes for the first time for Milan and helped the team to beat Siena away, 3 x 4. He scored his two first goals for Milan, including a head in the first half. He also assisted Oliveira to score Milan's segond goal.

Milan won the game just in the injury time, after a own goal. Without Ronaldo, the Italians will face Celtic in the Champions League next Tuesday.

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