Earl (11-26-2020)
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Yes, Diego- billions of us are.
‘In my heart I am Palestinian’: Maradona’s activism remembered
The Argentinian footballer, who has died at 60, proudly expressed his support for Palestine on several occasions.
As the world mourns the death of football’s legendary player, Diego Maradona, many people are also paying tribute to his vocal support for the Palestinian cause.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/...alestine-cause
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Earl (11-26-2020)
I don't follow round-ball football, so at first quick glance, I thought the title said "Madonna."
I was relieved that she wasn't Italian anymore.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Doc Dutch (11-26-2020)
The Hand of God!
My own bad hearing convinced me that this footleballer was called Belladonna, but I've heard about him enough to know better than that now. Other than the fact that he once cheated England out of the Footleball World Cup, what you have to say here is the best I've heard about him, though I do hear rumours that he supported some excellent Latin-American politicians and suffered some bad habits bravely!
cancel2 2022 (11-26-2020)
When I think of Argentina, I think of the middleweight champion boxer Carlos Monzon.
He was in prison for tossing his girlfriend off the balcony of a hotel, but as a national hero, he was given weekends off to visit brothels.
On the way back one week, he crashed his Lamborghini and died.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Never mind the Falklands War - they just beat the All Blacks at Rugby, which is astounding, and more than we can bloody do! I'm afraid I tend to share NiftyNiblick's apathy about soccer. My Grandfather attempted to introduce the game into this Valley once, and the family have striven hard to live down the shame ever since. Perhaps that is why I have the hairy prejudice that it is a rather effeminate form of ballet!
Doc Dutch (11-26-2020)
Never heard of him but a sincere thank you for an extremely odd bit of history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Monz%C3%B3n
Charged with killing his wife Alicia Muñiz in Mar del Plata in 1988, the former champion was sentenced to 11 years in jail. He died in a January 1995 car crash during a weekend furlough.
Sentenced to only 11 years for murdering a wife? How progressive! LOL
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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