I got this from Jessica, who got it from Shanna.
Argentina 6-0 Serbia-Montenegro
Okay, the Argentines are good (Jessica, if you like Zlatan and Ljungberg, have a look at Riquelme!), but I was really expecting more from the country formerly known as Serbia-Montenegro, also formerly known as Yugoslavia. Granted, I also expected more from Ukraine.
Netherlands 2-1 Ivory Coast
I'm sorry, but the Ivory Coast deserved to at least tie this game. They had a much more consistent play, a solid offense (I mean, just have a lookt at those passes), not to mention all those handballs the referee did not call on the Netherlands (2). I will recognize on the other hand that the Dutch defense was solid.
Of course, I am biased toward the Ivory Coast. Many of its players work in French clubs and Arthur Boka is a defender for the Racing Club de Strasbourg (my home team, currently in Division 2).
But the Ivory Coast, like Serbia-Montenegro, is one of those odd countries entering the tournament. Serbia-Montenegro, as we already know, does not exist anymore (it could argued that the team actually represents Serbia, as there is only one Montenegrin playing). The Ivory Coast, on the other hand, is currently in a state of civil war. Because this was the first time the country managed to qualify for the World Cup, the President, Laurent Gbagbo, managed to sign a cease-fire with opposition forces. Let's see how long this will last now that the team has failed to go to the round of 16.
I remember how in collège (middle school, from 1990 to 1995), Ivory Coast was presented to us as an economic miracle. It was a societal model for most African nation, with a solid agricultural industry, exporting cocoa and pineapple, among other things. The pictures shown presented a country that was well developped, not too different architecturally from what you would see in the suburb of Hautepierre (north of Strasbourg). Call this tropical new brutalism. And the country was somewhat more democratic and ethnically integrated. Remember that at the time, the genocide in Rwanda was going on.
And then 2000 came and with it the first news (for me) of an armed conflict. Later, in 2002, news of French casques bleus (the UN peacekeepers) helping American citizens out of the country.
And I started wondering what went wrong in the "miracle ivoirien."
Received in the mail:
John Sakkis's really cool cool new issue of BOTH BOTH, with translations by Michael Koshkin and poems by Suzanne Stein.
And KaBLOW!sts should be heading the KaBLOW!space page to have a look at Chall's work. The silence he is encountering is even more astounding than mine.
And I applied for an editorial position at Penny-Farthing Press, a comic book publisher responsible for titles such as Decoy, The Victorian and others. Wish me luck on that one.
Find your own pose!
Argentina 6-0 Serbia-Montenegro
Okay, the Argentines are good (Jessica, if you like Zlatan and Ljungberg, have a look at Riquelme!), but I was really expecting more from the country formerly known as Serbia-Montenegro, also formerly known as Yugoslavia. Granted, I also expected more from Ukraine.
Netherlands 2-1 Ivory CoastI'm sorry, but the Ivory Coast deserved to at least tie this game. They had a much more consistent play, a solid offense (I mean, just have a lookt at those passes), not to mention all those handballs the referee did not call on the Netherlands (2). I will recognize on the other hand that the Dutch defense was solid.
Of course, I am biased toward the Ivory Coast. Many of its players work in French clubs and Arthur Boka is a defender for the Racing Club de Strasbourg (my home team, currently in Division 2).
But the Ivory Coast, like Serbia-Montenegro, is one of those odd countries entering the tournament. Serbia-Montenegro, as we already know, does not exist anymore (it could argued that the team actually represents Serbia, as there is only one Montenegrin playing). The Ivory Coast, on the other hand, is currently in a state of civil war. Because this was the first time the country managed to qualify for the World Cup, the President, Laurent Gbagbo, managed to sign a cease-fire with opposition forces. Let's see how long this will last now that the team has failed to go to the round of 16.
I remember how in collège (middle school, from 1990 to 1995), Ivory Coast was presented to us as an economic miracle. It was a societal model for most African nation, with a solid agricultural industry, exporting cocoa and pineapple, among other things. The pictures shown presented a country that was well developped, not too different architecturally from what you would see in the suburb of Hautepierre (north of Strasbourg). Call this tropical new brutalism. And the country was somewhat more democratic and ethnically integrated. Remember that at the time, the genocide in Rwanda was going on.
And then 2000 came and with it the first news (for me) of an armed conflict. Later, in 2002, news of French casques bleus (the UN peacekeepers) helping American citizens out of the country.
And I started wondering what went wrong in the "miracle ivoirien."
Received in the mail:
John Sakkis's really cool cool new issue of BOTH BOTH, with translations by Michael Koshkin and poems by Suzanne Stein.
And KaBLOW!sts should be heading the KaBLOW!space page to have a look at Chall's work. The silence he is encountering is even more astounding than mine.
And I applied for an editorial position at Penny-Farthing Press, a comic book publisher responsible for titles such as Decoy, The Victorian and others. Wish me luck on that one.
Comments
As for soccer boys, are you trying to make me lose the contest?! Nuh-uh.
as for the contest ... hum ...
Penny-Farthing is one of the two indie comic book publishers in Houston, the other one being Terry Moore's Abstract Studios, which publishes (well, published) Strangers in Paradise.