I’m a little of track with the topics this week. The power outage last weekend ate into my time to write and kind of threw off my mojo. Until then, he’s this little tidbit.
Most of the news/entertainment/culture that is here is imported from Portugal and Brazil. This is because in terms of TV, recorded music, sports, and film, Mozambique has got almost nothing. Because of this, all the kids know all the players on each of the Portugal and Brazil national soccer teams and think they are the most famous players in the world because they’re the only ones they ever hear about.
They also followed them in the World Cup this last June. Even now, Portugal’s 7-2 Victory of North Korea is somewhat legendary and will be talked about forever. Details of the game have also blurred with time to where Cristiano Ronaldo scored four of the goals that game (he had one, and it was an accident).
So, whenever we play soccer here in the yard, every now and then the game will turn into a blowout, and somebody will take it upon themselves to hurl the worst insult they can think of…
…”You guys are playing worse than North Korea!”
This is the equivalent of the baseball team telling the other pitcher he throws like a girl, or saying your momma’s so ugly they mistook her for Kim Jong Il.
Today was one of those blowouts. I was on the Portugal side of things, but Joe (visitor, if you've read of Christina's blog) was on the North Korea end of it. Before the game we were joking and the kids suggested double-or-nothing on dinner, with the winner getting the loser's food (we were only joking, so don't worry).
Things got really funny when Joe headed the ball into his own goal (I think that made it 8-2). At that point, our team got together and decided that Joe could eat tonight because he helped us win. He was not happy when I translated the message fore him.
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