Monthly Archives: May 2010

Militonian Ellipses – Diego Milito Comes of Age

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

It’s a question on maturity, of experience… My career has built up gradually. That’s why I can say now that i’m in more or less the best form of my life. I don’t know if it’s the best, cause last year at Genoa was extraordinary [24 goals in 31 games, che]. Of course that didn’t get so much attention because I didn’t achieve the same level of success as this year or because that club wasn’t as big as Inter… Continue reading →

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Messi, Francescoli & Sports Illustrated

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

This may seem like curmudgeonly criticism, but when a magazine like Sports Illustrated rolls along with its feted, prizewinning auteurs deigning to shed a bit of light on Argentina only to tell a story anyone who’s at all interested in the topic already knows by heart, present bits of other peoples’ interviews as its own work and even make smug, condescending and downright stupid comments about a country the writer clearly doesn’t know very well, pegamequemegusta don’t like it; we expect better. Continue reading →

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Patria futbolera

Posted on May 25, 2010 by

These grandiloquent metaphors are nothing other than a journalistic game legitimised over time: yet Maradona has his place in history while San Martín and Favaloro have their own. Continue reading →

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