¡Hala Madrid!

. Giselle and Antonio, besides some of the many

cracks that played in Spanish fields: old story, new plot

Yesterday night, january 20th, happened, in fact, the first match of Roberto Carlos for Corinthians - that defeated Bragantino, 2x1. For the first time the partners RoRo (Roberto and Ronaldo), that became famous witth the madrileño white uniform, played togheter again, wearing the white (and black) Corinthians uniform. Something new for the Brazilian audience. Brazilian.

Not for the Spanish. Like happened with Antonio Sanchez Garcia, born in Madrid, and his wife, Giselle Tridade. When visitig the Football Museum, some hours after the match, Sanchez showed a certain dejà-vu feeling. Anyway, Roro, Part I, toke part in the Santiago Bernabeu's field, and lasted 5 years. From Part II, that begins now, we hope that it will be as spetacular as the first one. God bless.
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Haiti, still

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Parts of O Dia em que...: Peace Match

There's nothing better to understand (quickly) a historical event than a (well-done) documentary. That's how O Dia em que o Brasil Esteve Aqui, by Caio Ortiz and João Dornelas, is. Released in 2006, World Cup year, the movie, 72 minutes long, shows what happened two years before - the visit of the Brazilian Team to Port-au-Prince. The images are epic and are similar, in a certain way, to the Santos voyage to the Congo, in 1968 - the famous occasion when a civil war ceased only for allowing soldiers to watch Pelé and Cia. The movie doesn't reach this level of dramacity but is foundamental to understand what happened before the natural bomb that "exploded" in the island.

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Emotions

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It will be tonight, tuesday, Roberto Carlos first match for Corinthians.

The original one celebrated, last year, his 50th career aniversary - 14 more than the Corinthians player has, of age. Otherwise, the popularity of both, is quite different: the famous son of Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, state of Espírito Santo is, still, a without-adversary idol among Brazilian women 50 years or older. The another one, born in Araras, state of São Paulo, is a reference in left-wing for football fans between 20 and 40 years around the globe. There's, otherwise, a lot of people that take part from both - post-modernity neologisms aside - tribes. Anyway, there are a lot of Corinthians fans that, if cried or smiled, felt emotions. There's nothing more appropriated.

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The most sublime meeting moment of these two nations, the Corinthians fans and singer and composer followers, happened in the end of 2008, when the black-and-white team came back to the series A of the Brazilian Tournament. It was october 25th and, after the triumph, 2x0 against Ceará, in this Pacaembu Stadium, the club had confirmed, 6 rounds before the end (a record in the era of all-teams-against-all formula) its comeback to the main series. In the middle of the celebration, the sound of A Volta, a song by the "King" Roberto Carlos, gave the relief the fans waited for.

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Think about Haiti, pray for Haiti

In the UN convoy, the Brazilian players in the streets of Port-au-Prince: ephifany

In the last thirty years we saw something worst, in death toll, than the cyclopic earthquake in Haiti: the tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, 2004. That's all.

The estimated death toll - about one hundred thousand people feared dead - provides a notion of what happened. Before the catastrophe the country already had the worst social and economic figures of the Americas. After it, dives in an incertain future.

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It's good, by any means, to remember an occasion when hope was predominant. In august 18th, 2004, the Brazilian Team was host by the Haitian squad, in Port-au-Prince. The score, 0x6 for Brazil, was taken less in history than the reception the Brazilian players had in the streets of the capital, in the UN convoy that carried them to the Sylvio Cator Stadium. It looked like Haiti was here. Haiti isn't here.

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