During the big football games I’m accustom to hearing cheers from the streets whenever there is a goal. But when Argentina scored its first goal this morning against Serbia-Montenegro I didn’t expect to hear the church bells ringing from Santa Catalina outside the street from my apartment. Considering that Argentina scored 5 more goals, it amounted to a lot of ringing. I’m not complaining. It’s just another part of the World Cup experience in Buenos Aires.
Added: The Guardian has a humorous minute-by-minute account of the game complete with fans email comments. (Mostly by fans of England; Argentine football fans will enjoy the article):
29 mins – Argentina 2 – 0 Serbia and Montenegro: How the f**k am I supposed to describe that? The goal of the tournament so far and quite possibly the greatest goal I’ve ever seen.
31 mins: Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Back-heel from Crespo. Cambiasso … goal!
With 24 short, high speed passes, the blurry shapes that are assorted Argentina players carve open Serbia and Montengro, before Cambiasso pulls the trigger from the edge of the penalty area. The Serbia and Montenegro players were left standing like statues they were so mesmerised. Make it your business to see that goal – it was unbelievably good.
June 16th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
El gol de Cambiasso fue simplemente de coleccion
June 17th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Indeed, Argentina was very impressive and is a candidate for the title.
I read somewhere a story that the authorities fear for power failures in Buenos Aires because of the upcoming match Argentina-Holland. It seems that the peek demand in power might cause the electricity network to crash, leaving thousands without images of the match.
Did anyone hear or read about this (if so, where)?
June 17th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Ralph – I’ve not heard about the potential for power failures but I’ll keep an eye out for news about that…God, I hope not…the city will be in panic!
Actually, since it’s winter here in Buenos Aires I wouldn’t think that the TVs alone would cause such a surge on the power supply. Most people heat with gas. If it was summer and everyone was cooling with electricity, then that might be a different manner since there are occasional power outages during the summer anyway.
June 19th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I actually read in the same article that power consumption was up because of unusual high temperatures for the time of year. Is that right or is it true that you can’t trust what you read in newspapers…
Also thought I saw a short flash on BBC World about a power outage during Argentina-Serbia, but it was so quick I couldn’t get the details of it.
Lets hope everyone can enjoy the match Argentina-Holland without any outages!
June 19th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
The temperature has been warm for this time of year. 19 today but on Wednesday the high temperature is forcasted to be 13.
July 1st, 2006 at 11:32 pm
[…] Big losses in the World Cup this weekend….not sure whom I’m cheering for now, Italy, perhaps Portugal. Yesterday, just before the Argentina-Germany game I heard the church bells again ringing across the street at Santa Catalina. Perhaps it was just the midday call for prayer, something Argentina needed but didn’t get against Germany. Oh, well, losing is part of the game. […]