Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Maradona was off his tits

A huge game of football in Buenos Aires tomorrow: Boca Juniors and Estudiantes play off for the Argentine championship. Boca managed to screw-up royally, as they only needed 1 point from their final two games to be crowned champions for a 3rd successive time. They managed to lose both games, meaning the top 2 sides finished level on points. For the first time in the leagues history there will be a play off to decide who wins the championship.

I watched Boca lose to Lanus on Saturday. (More accurately I watched the crowd watch Boca lose to Lanus on Saturday: live coverage of local football here doesn't actually include any football). The camera mainly focused on the antics of former Boca player Diego Maradona (El Tramposo, as I always refer to him in conversations with the locals) during the 90mins of play.

He was clearly off his tits, on booze and/or coke by the looks. His daughter and a couple of friends/bodyguards had to repeatedly restrain him, it looked like he was going to fall from his VIP box several times. He also spat on the crowd below him on at least one occasion and threw water on them several times. Actually his behaviour was way more entertaining than many football matches I've watched.

The nation is still completely obsessed with this little over-weight fucker, despite his drug-abuse and womanizing.....and no, I'm not bitter:





I'll be cheering for Estudiantes.

5 comments:

Perpetual_Traveller said...

It's easy to tell when there's a goal: the traffic outside errupts into a torrent of 'horn tooting'.

Boca were 1-0 up; Estudiantes just equalised....20mins to go.

Perpetual_Traveller said...

YES!!!!!! Estudiantes now lead 2-1.

10mins remaining.

Perpetual_Traveller said...

Estudiantes held out to win the Championship.

P.S El Tromposo = The Cheater

TrUlster said...

Spend the bucks to get codified channels and you can watch all matches of Boca, River etc. This "radio-TV" of the crowd is for the ones who can't afford the proper channels!

Perpetual_Traveller said...

Ha! Yeah, in my new place I have these codified channels. It all depends on the owner of the place I rent.