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capitanogiorgio · 5 years

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wish granted! recommend me some football blogs, please!

omg thank you so much anon :D !!!

So, in no particular order:

@jmenfoot (Barça/France NT) : amazing humor, always down for serious and important talk about football and its current issues. Great posts !!!

@houssemaouar (Olympique Lyonnais/Gareth Southgate FC) : iconic, came back after a one year suspension from tumblr staff on an unjust basis. Very funny, comedy gold, I love her

@mrhugolloris (France NT/Spurs/BVB) : n°1 Hugo Lloris fan, better France NT fan than most actual french people. Kind and compassionate, deserves the world !

@ikercasiillas (Juventus/Romania NT) : I LOVE HER !!! Loves Max Allegri and his big truck, Rino Gattuso and his screams. Always there to point out and discuss serious issues in football and that’s! so! important! especially on here when it’s rare. Will make you love the younglings of Romania NT, you will root for them tooth and nail, I promise you. Also, will let your soft spot for Torino players emerge. A GIFT

@andreabarzagli (Juventus) : always informed, mostly chilled out fan, stands by the club no matter what but not blindly. Very great memes and humor. Mistaken for Andrea Barzagli himself

@donbianconero (Juventus) : I love him. Not only has he been my faithful Moise Kean supporter with me since day one but he also loves Captain Tsubasa and he’s one of the most kindest, sweetest soul I’ve ever met. Great memes too.

@gonzaloromagnoli (Juventus/BVB) : A BABY !! A very angry one who fights tooth and nail for her club, her country, her faves and her beliefs. Pops up onto your dash one night and then strikes again two weeks later, you’re never prepared.

@gingervivilou (LFC/Juventus/Croatia NT) : we’re the same age but she’s my mom

@gendryabaratheonn (Juventus/LFC) :

@vecchiasignoras (Juventus/Manchester United) : Gigi and Alex lover, what more can I say ? Super sweet and always excited for games, ready to support !

@gigidalligna (Juventus) : UGH THEIR MIND. #GiorgioChielliniForBallondOr partner in crime. Will take no nonsense from our shitty board.

@montosmadman (Milan) :

@cuterone (LFC/Milan/Serie A) : Patrick Cutrone’s mom, loves Serie A and most of its teams very much. Loves a bus, part of the #FreeMonto team. A literal ray of sunshine

@jordanshenderson (LFC/England NT) : what can I say ? People can only DREAM about having the same dedication and love towards the club and one Jordan Henderson. A real gem who also have a lot of feelings on Go The Distance x Sports (mostly Go The Distance x Jordan Henderson). Loves her good James Milner’s arms and abs and I love her even more for it ! Such a sweet sweet sweet person who deserves the world

@sadiiomane10 (LFC/Bayern) : ABSOLUTE TOP QUALITY MEMES ! Really entertaining. Best provider of content for Emre Can, that’s her brand. Always supports other fans and keep them believing when it seems we won’t again, despite pessimist posts stating otherwise

@andyrobertsonz (LFC/Celtic/SCOTLAND) : My favourite scottish fan on here !! Actual president of Andy Robertson’s fan club and will defend Scotland (and lfc) to death. Always great and funny stories to tell. Was at Liverpool Bus Parade with @jordanshenderson so, ergo, literally a legend !

@mcmanamans (LFC/Neville Siblings FC) : SAM

@thesecretdetectivecollection (LFC) : Also onto the Carra-has-a-great-ass agenda !! So easy to talk to and fun and passionate :D !!!! LOVES JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO

@georginiwijnaldum (LFC) : Did you say Virgil Van Dijk ? loves lfc with all her heart, protect our kiddos fiercly !! Also loves tennis and never says no to a fair share of drama !!!

@diegoalvesisgod (LFC/Ostrava) : MAKES GREAT FOOTBALL-THEMED BRACELET GO CHECK !!! Always chill and will tell you great and movig tales about Ostrava and I love it !!!

@garance-bayernitude (Bayern/France NT) : another baby ! Another angry one !!! Be ware. Loves Niko Kovac to death and will fight you if you wish ill on him.

And many others I forgot and to whom I apolosgise. All the blogs above are favourite and gems

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gadgetsrevv · 5 years

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Croatian Winger Ivan Perisic Joins Bayern Munich on 1-year Loan From Inter Milan

Berlin: Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich have signed Inter Milan and Croatia winger Ivan Perisic on a one-year loan deal, the club confirmed Tuesday.

“Ivan will help us immediately with his many years of international experience,” said Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic.

“He is technically gifted and flexible in attack.”

Perisic, 30, is widely considered to be Bayern’s back-up option after their bid to sign Leroy Sane was derailed by the Manchester City winger’s recent knee injury.

The 2018 World Cup finalist had already confirmed the transfer to German media after he was spotted undergoing a medical check in Munich on Monday.

According to Bild newspaper, Bayern have paid five million Euros ($5.6m) for the Croatian international, with the option to buy him outright for around 20 million Euros at the end of the season.

Perisic is a familiar name in Germany, having won the Bundesliga title with Borussia Dortmund and the German Cup with Wolfsburg earlier in his career.

“I am very happy to be back in Germany. Bayern are one of the biggest clubs in Europe. We don’t want to just win the league and cup, we also want to attack the Champions League,” said Perisic.

He also played under Bayern coach Niko Kovac during the latter’s two-year spell as Croatia coach between 2013 and 2015.

“I am sure that Ivan will integrate quickly as he already knows the Bundesliga and Niko Kovac,” added Salihamidzic.

Perisic’s current contract at Inter runs until 2022, but he was reportedly set to play less of a role under new coach Antonio Conte.

At Bayern, he will provide much-needed reinforcement on the wing following the departure of veteran club icons Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery at the end of last season.

The German giants had initially targeted Sane, but turned their attentions to Perisic after the Manchester City winger tore his anterior cruciate ligament last week, potentially ruling him out until early 2020.

It remains unclear whether Bayern will still make a bid for Sane despite his injury. Yet several former Bayern players have insisted that Perisic would be more than just a plan B.

“I don’t think Perisic is an emergency solution, he is a fantastic player who can help Bayern immediately and won’t need any time to adjust,” former Bayern captain Stefan Effenberg told Sport1.

Bayern launch their Bundesliga season at home to Hertha Berlin on Friday.

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kimpeterkovac · 6 years

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knifeknifeknife

In the 1960’s, Ford’s Theatre was a tired museum with footprints painted on the stage. Footprints? Yep, footprints, like at those Arthur Murray dance studios, marking the route John Wilkes Booth took leaping from the Presidential box to the stage shouting Sic Semper Tyrannis and running out the exit backstage, a path he would have known since he was a working actor. And all the while brandishing a Bowie knife, named for 19th century soldier, smuggler, and slave trader Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo.

It is unclear whether Booth knew that the brave and barking mad abolitionist John Brown also carried a Bowie knife.

Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln saw John Wilkes’ brother Edwin play Shylock in an 1864 production of The Merchant of Venice, where they saw Shylock sharpen his knife on the bottom of his shoe as Bassanio wondered, "Why does thou whet thy knife so earnestly?"

In the 1980’s, the costume of a properly outfitted theatre technician included plaid flannel shirt, leather vest, do-rag, and lockback Buck Knife in a leather holster.

Unionist Edwin Booth was arguably the greatest American actor of his time.

It is a long-standing tradition to not speak out loud, in a theatre, the name of a certain Shakespeare tragedy or its title character. It is mostly called ‘The Scottish Play’, and the main characters called Lady Scottish and Mr. Scottish, the latter of whom says, in iambic pentameter

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

. . . or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Filmmaker Roman Polanski’s first feature was Knife in the Water. Of French-Polish descent, he met his second wife, Sharon Tate, while making The Fearless Vampire Killers, a film not watchable today unless you channel your chemically altered hippie past. Tragically, Sharon is best known for being murdered in 1969 (with a knife, mostly) by the Manson Family. Roman was overseas working at the time.

‘knknighgh’ pronounced ‘knife’ is a one word poem by ultra-minimalist Aram Saroyan.

The first film Polanski made after Tate’s murder was Macbeth, released in 1971, which received an x-rating because of nudity and graphic violence. The superstition about speaking the word Macbeth is not operative in movie theaters.

At an international theatre festival, colleagues from Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Croatia all claimed me as being one of their tribe. The name Kovac (and/or variations thereof) is part of all of these Slavic cultures, meaning smith, or blacksmith.

Among other things, blacksmiths make knives.

Those whose teeth are a-gnashing and knickers a-twisting about the recent Public Theatre production of Julius Caesar which included the title character (clad in long tie and yellow-orange hair) killed by knife-wielding Senators have not actually read or seen the play, since it is in no way about the virtues of assassination. Additionally, there is a long theatrical tradition of making parallels between Caesar and any random current president, including, as only two examples, Obama and Lincoln.

The actor Rick Miller has long had success with a one-person performance mashing the Scottish play with the Simpsons, a piece called MacHomer.

My paternal grandfather, of Polish descent, was named Ignatz Kolacz (pronounced, more or less, Coal-aash). I never met him, since he died exactly one year before I was born. Lucky thing my mother was reading Kipling’s novel Kim during her pregnancy or the calendar synchronicity of my day of birth might have meant I’d be known today as Iggy.

Selected fun knife names:

Butterfly knife Corvo Dirk Flick knife French Nail Karambit Kris Kukri Puuku Rampuri Stiletto Trench knife

After Ignatz divorced my evil alcoholic grandmother, my father, Stan, lived with her. For a time. Then she threw him out, in the midst of the Great Depression, and his home was a cardboard shack in Cleveland’s Hooverville. For a time. Then Ignatz found out and brought his son to live with him and random cousins, a tribe of warm and happy drunks, one of whom owned a low-rent bar we called a ‘beer joint’. The story goes, though, that Stan’s mother changed their last name to Kovac - she hated her Polish ex so much that she rebranded herself, and her son, with a name from her homeland, Czechoslovakia. There are those in the family who say this name thing is not true, and they may well be correct, but I embrace this version because it’s so satisfying.

The iconic USMC KA-BAR combat knife traces its lineage to the Bowie knife.

A DIY prison knife is commonly called a shank or a shiv. Not to be confused with The Shawshank Redemption or the Hindu god Shiva.

knife+strife=no longer rife w/ life

bang the drum slowly and play the fife lowly play the dead march as you carry me along

On the iPod playlist: the Swedish electronica band The Knife, and avant-jazzer Nate Wooley’s album of minimalist variations inspired by the above poem “knknighgh”.

Five years before I met my bride, her mother passed away. Officiating at the service was Reverend Francis Kovacic.

Major Henry Shakespear (sic), an Indian Army officer and well-known hunter, designed a particular dirk known as the ‘Shakespear’ knife. Not to be confused with ‘Shakespeare’ brand fillet knives, used by contemporary fisherman.

It is said that the Scottish Play was President Lincoln’s favorite play.

A dagger of the mind.

knknighgh.

[published in The Slag Review]

#creativenonfiction

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What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great

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What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great

영문기사

What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great

by Jason Gay

June 15, 2014 9:21 p.m. ET

Look: I’m not going to lie to you. Never. I guess I could try to bluff my way through this, try to convince you from here, 10 airborne hours from New York City via sumptuous upgrade from economy to economy comfort—neither comfortable nor economic, as it turns out—that I am a true futebol obsessive, with the game packed deep inside my bones. I wish I could tell you, in a hushed tone rich with emotion, that this beautiful game had both lifted and broken my heart, and my father’s heart, and my grandfather’s heart, and the heart of Zidane, our beloved family dog. That would be great. I wish I could tell you soccer makes me cry. I really wish I could tell you we had a family dog named Zidane. But I can’t. Not yet.

The truth is I’m still new to the whole World Cup experience. I had a couple of days at South Africa 2010 but I still feel green and a little confused. I’m ready to be captivated, however. On Sunday morning I woke up in Rio at our Journal WC 2014 headquarters (medium glam) not far from Copacabana beach (actual glam), and before I had my a.m. coffee, I was jarred by a noisy ruckus in the streets. I looked out the window to see Argentina fans marching and singing in white-and-light-blue jerseys. It was barely 9 in the morning. Argentina’s game with Bosnia and Herzegovina at Maracanã Stadium was not for another 10 hours. Back home, if a bunch of Jets fans came parading past my apartment at 9 a.m., I would take my family down to the basement and barricade the door. But this was fantastic. It made me want to run outside and join.

This mania is what makes the World Cup great, what makes the Cup the Cup—the electric collision of national pride and the planet’s most popular sport compressed into an exhausting but riveting monthlong saga. It’s ugly business, too—Brazil is torn over this Cup, disgusted over the grotesque sports spending in a country that needs much more than shiny stadia. Protests have happened; protests are expected; there are hard and important questions about what will be left when the soccer and the world leaves. Of course, FIFA, the sport’s blundering governing body, knows it sells an addictive product, and it counts on the public to set any caution aside as soon as the Cup begins. And then the Cup begins, and it is indeed hard not to love. This surely makes me a sucker, part of the problem.

But it’s intoxicating in so many ways, especially this Cup, in a dynamic country already confirmed as soccer-mad, holder of five World Cup titles, and among the favorites in 2014. I have seen enough of this Cup to know that the true soccer-heads are thrilled with the early games, which have been thrilling even to an untrained eye—upsets, aggression, goals galore, often in rapid succession. Whoever complains there is not enough scoring in soccer is not watching this soccer. Also: I am reasonably sure the Netherlands could beat the Orlando Magic.

Controversy is a inexorable part of any World Cup, and it is here in both serious and absurd form. Brazil’s contentious Cup began with a discussion of the contentious Cup two contentious Cups down the road, in Qatar, in 2022, and the debate of whether or not it should be moved someplace with fewer logistical issues, like Saturn. Less grave were the predictable referee disputes—a penalty kick awarded to Brazil in its opener over Croatia, handed out by the referee for contact that—at worst—resembled a tender cuddle. Later, Croatia coach Niko Kovac, taking a restrained view, wondered if his team should just “give up and go home.” France has complained that drones may have been spying on their practices. On Sunday, the robots sent a peace offering to France, awarding a goal-line tech score to Les Bleus in their 3-0 win over Honduras.

Like the French national team, traveling around Brazil can be unpredictable and sometimes exasperating; when you ask a worried out-of-towner when you should leave to go to the airport, you are told you should have left two months ago. I’ve been lucky—after the Brazil opener in São Paulo, I went breezily on to Rio. That afternoon I sat behind a taxi driver who watched the Uruguay-Costa Rica game from a phone suctioned below the rearview mirror. When it rang, he picked it up and told his wife to not distract him.

On Saturday night, I went to the crowded fan fest to watch the Italy-England game played up north in Manaus. This is a game that would be a big loud deal in my Brooklyn neighborhood back home, and it was a big loud deal here, too; the Inglaterra fans showered the crowd with Coca-Cola cups after Daniel Sturridge’s first-half goal. But the victory went to Italy, which had the second-half gas in the Amazonian heat. Sunday night I rushed off to Argentina-Bosnia at legendary Maracanã, the stadium stacked with joyous fans, soccer icon Lionel Messi on the field below. On Monday, the U.S. team would make its debut against Ghana.

It’s early here. Pacing feels essential. Imagine a Super Bowl after a Super Bowl after a Super Bowl until you have counted for a month. But the World Cup is manic from the start. Heartbreak and contemplation comes later. We are now four days in and I have yet to hear a stray remark about the U.S. Open or the Heat and the Spurs or even the Mets. A lot of major sporting events like to claim they’re the center of the sports universe. This feels like the center of the sports universe. There’s nothing like a World Cup. Even a newcomer can detect that.

번역

What Makes the World Cup (Still) Great

월드컵은 여전히 위대한 이유

by Jason Gay

June 15, 2014 9:21 p.m. ET

Look: I’m not going to lie to you. Never.

보라. 절대로 거짓말은 하지 않겠다. 절대.

I guess I could try to bluff my way through this, try to convince you from here, 10 airborne hours from New York City via sumptuous upgrade from economy to economy comfort—neither comfortable nor economic, as it turns out—that I am a true futebol obsessive, with the game packed deep inside my bones.

어쩌면 뉴욕에서 브라질까지 10시간 걸리는 비행에, 이코노미 좌석을 편리하지도 경제적이지도 않은 프리미엄 이코노미로 업그레이드해서 달려갈 만큼 내가 뼛속까지 축구팬이라고 허세를 부릴 수도 있을 것이다.

I wish I could tell you, in a hushed tone rich with emotion, that this beautiful game had both lifted and broken my heart, and my father’s heart, and my grandfather’s heart, and the heart of Zidane, our beloved family dog.

아니면 감정을 잔뜩 실어서, 이 아름다운 월드컵 때문에 나와 우리 아버지, 할어버지, 그리고 우리집 애완견 지단의 심정이 천국과 지옥을 왔다갔다하듯 애끓게 됐노라고 속삭일 수도 있다.

That would be great.

그렇게 말하는 건 꽤 멋질 것이다.

I wish I could tell you soccer makes me cry.

축구 때문에 울었다고 말할 수도 있다.

I really wish I could tell you we had a family dog named Zidane.

우리집 개 이름이 지단이라고 말할 수도 있다.

But I can’t. Not yet.

하지만 그럴 순 없다. 적어도 아직은!

The truth is I’m still new to the whole World Cup experience.

사실 난 이 월드컵이라는 행사에 함께 한 경험이 별로 없다.

I had a couple of days at South Africa 2010 but I still feel green and a little confused.

2010년 남아공 월드컵 때의 며칠이 전부로 여전히 신참이고 혼란스럽다.

I’m ready to be captivated, however.

그래도 월드컵의 포로가 될 준비는 돼 있다.

On Sunday morning I woke up in Rio at our Journal WC 2014 headquarters (medium glam) not far from Copacabana beach (actual glam), and before I had my a.m. coffee, I was jarred by a noisy ruckus in the streets.

일요일 아침, 난 코파카바나 해변에서 멀지 않은 곳에 자리한 우리 신문사 ‘저널 WC 2014′ 본부가 있는 리오에서 깨어났고 모닝 커피를 마시기도 전에 왁자지껄한 소리를 들었다.

I looked out the window to see Argentina fans marching and singing in white-and-light-blue jerseys.

아르헨티나 팬들이 예의 그 흰색과 하늘색 복장으로 노래하며 행진하나 싶어 창문을 내다봤다.

It was barely 9 in the morning.

시간은 이제 겨우 아침 9시였다.

Argentina’s game with Bosnia and Herzegovina at Maracanã Stadium was not for another 10 hours.

마라카나 축구장에서 열리는 아르헨티나와 보스니아-헤르체고비나와의 조별리그 경기가 시작되려면 아직 10시간이나 남았는데 말이다.

Back home, if a bunch of Jets fans came parading past my apartment at 9 a.m., I would take my family down to the basement and barricade the door.

만약 여기가 뉴욕이고 아침 9시에 뉴욕 제트(풋볼팀) 팬들이 우리 아파트 앞을 행진한다면 가족들을 몰고 지하실로 내려가 문에 바리케이트를 쳤을 것이다.

But this was fantastic.

하지만 여기에선 얘기가 달랐다.

It made me want to run outside and join.

나도 뛰쳐나가 합류하고픈 충동이 느껴졌다.

이런 열광이야말로 월드컵을 월드컵답게 한다. 국가적 자긍심들이 불꽃 튀듯 충돌한다. 지구상에서 가장 인기있는 스포츠가 한달간 소모적이지만 마음을 사로잡는 흥미진진한 무용담으로 펼쳐지는 것이다.

It’s ugly business, too—Brazil is torn over this Cup, disgusted over the grotesque sports spending in a country that needs much more than shiny stadia.

우울한 면도 있다. 브라질은 이번 월드컵을 치르느라 완전히 초토화됐다. 브라질은 번쩍이는 경기장보다 시급한 게 훨씬 많은데도 축구에 엄청난 지출을 감행함으로써 질타를 받았다.

Protests have happened; protests are expected; there are hard and important questions about what will be left when the soccer and the world leaves.

시위가 벌어졌다. 예상했던 바다. 월드컵이 끝나고 세계의 관심도 떠난 후엔 과연 무엇이 남겠느냐는 어렵고도 중요한 문제가 제기된다.

Of course, FIFA, the sport’s blundering governing body, knows it sells an addictive product, and it counts on the public to set any caution aside as soon as the Cup begins.

물론 FIFA는 자기들이 중독성있는 상품을 판다는 걸 알고 있으며 월드컵이 시작되자 마자 사람들이 이런 우려 따위는 잊기를 바란다.

And then the Cup begins, and it is indeed hard not to love.

실제로 월드컵이 시작되자 빠져들지 않을 수가 없는 심정이다.

This surely makes me a sucker, part of the problem.

이게 문제다.

But it’s intoxicating in so many ways, especially this Cup, in a dynamic country already confirmed as soccer-mad, holder of five World Cup titles, and among the favorites in 2014.

월드컵에는 중독적인면이 다분하다. 특히 이번 월드컵이 그렇다. 이미 축구에 열광적이라고 알려져 있으며 총 5회에 걸친 FIFA 월드컵 우승으로 월드컵 최다 우승국 타이틀까지 가지고 있는 역동적인 나라 브라질에서 열리기 때문이다.

I have seen enough of this Cup to know that the true soccer-heads are thrilled with the early games, which have been thrilling even to an untrained eye—upsets, aggression, goals galore, often in rapid succession.

나는 진정한 축구팬들이 좌절, 돌진, 골이 터지는 순간의 감격이 회오리처럼 일며 교차하는 초기 경기에 흥분한다는 걸 알 정도로는 이번 월드컵을 봐왔다.

Whoever complains there is not enough scoring in soccer is not watching this soccer.

득점 수가 적다고 불평하는 사람은 이번 월드컵을 보지 않은 사람이다.

Also: I am reasonably sure the Netherlands could beat the Orlando Magic.

또 하나, 난 네달란드가 올랜도 매직(농구팀)을 능가할 거라고 본다.

Controversy is a inexorable part of any World Cup, and it is here in both serious and absurd form.

어느 월드컵이나 논란의 소지는 있게 마련이고, 이번에도 마찬가지다. 말도 많고 탈도 많다.

Brazil’s contentious Cup began with a discussion of the contentious Cup two contentious Cups down the road, in Qatar, in 2022, and the debate of whether or not it should be moved someplace with fewer logistical issues, like Saturn.

브라질 월드컵의 논쟁은 세텀 같이 월드컵 지원 문제가 덜한 지역으로 옮겨야 되는 것이 아니냐는 논쟁이 일고 있는 2022년 카타르 월드컵에 대한 논쟁과 함께 시작되었다.

Less grave were the predictable referee disputes—a penalty kick awarded to Brazil in its opener over Croatia, handed out by the referee for contact that—at worst—resembled a tender cuddle.

심판에 관한 논쟁은 그나마 논란의 소지가 다소 덜한 사안이었다. 브라질과 크로아티아의 개막전에서 심판이 브라질에 패널드킥을 준 것과 관련해서다. 최악의 경우 부드러운 포옹에도 패널드킥이 선언되었다.

Later, Croatia coach Niko Kovac, taking a restrained view, wondered if his team should just “give up and go home.”

이에 대해 니코 코바치 크로아티아 감독은 절제된 태도로 “짐 싸서 집으로 가야할지 고민”이라고 말했다.

France has complained that drones may have been spying on their practices.

프랑스팀은 드론(무인기)이 연습 경기를 염탐하고 있는 것 같다고 불평했다.

On Sunday, the robots sent a peace offering to France, awarding a goal-line tech score to Les Bleus in their 3-0 win over Honduras.

하지만 일요일엔 골라인 판독기가 프랑스의 손을 들어줌으로써 온두라스를 3-0으로 제압할 수 있었다. 신기술과 화해한 셈이다.

-Les Bleus: 레블 뢰, 프랑스 축구 대표팀

브라질을 돌아다니다보면 프랑스 축구 대표팀처럼 예측불가능하고 때로는 약오르는 일이 생긴다. 타지 사람에게 공항에 얼마나 미리 나가야 하냐고 물으면 2개월전이라고 대답한다.

I’ve been lucky—after the Brazil opener in São Paulo, I went breezily on to Rio.

그래도 난 다행히 상파울루에서 브라질 개막전이 끝난 후, 리우데자네이루로 순조롭게 이동했다.

That afternoon I sat behind a taxi driver who watched the Uruguay-Costa Rica game from a phone suctioned below the rearview mirror.

그날 오후 택시를 탔는데 기사가 백미러 아래에 붙여 놓은 휴대폰으로 우루과이 코스타리카전을 보고 있었다.

When it rang, he picked it up and told his wife to not distract him.

부인이 전화를 하자, 방해하지 말라고 외쳤다.

On Saturday night, I went to the crowded fan fest to watch the Italy-England game played up north in Manaus.

토요일 밤엔 마나우스 북부에서 열리는 이탈리아-잉글랜드전을 보러갔다.

This is a game that would be a big loud deal in my Brooklyn neighborhood back home, and it was a big loud deal here, too; the Inglaterra fans showered the crowd with Coca-Cola cups after Daniel Sturridge’s first-half goal.

내가 사는 브루클린 지역에서도 크게 화제가 되었을 이 경기는 이곳에서도 화제였다. 다니엘 스터리지가 전반 골을 터트리자 잉글랜드 팬들이 사람들에게 콜라를 쐈다.

But the victory went to Italy, which had the second-half gas in the Amazonian heat.

그러나 승리는 엄청난 열기 속에서 후반 만회골을 터트린 이탈리아에게 돌아갔다.

Sunday night I rushed off to Argentina-Bosnia at legendary Maracanã, the stadium stacked with joyous fans, soccer icon Lionel Messi on the field below.

일요일 밤엔 전설의 마라카나 경기장에서 열리는 아르헨티나-보스니아전을 관람하게 갔다. 경기장을 가득 메운 팬들은 아르헨티나를 대표하는 축구 스타 리오넬 메시를 보며 즐거워했다.

On Monday, the U.S. team would make its debut against Ghana.

일요일엔 미국이 가나를 상대로 데뷔전을 치른다.

It’s early here.

아직 초반이다.

Pacing feels essential.

페이스 조절이 무엇보다 중요하다.

Imagine a Super Bowl after a Super Bowl after a Super Bowl until you have counted for a month.

한달이라는 긴 시간 동안 수퍼볼을 치르고 또 치르고 또 치른다고 생각해 보라.

But the World Cup is manic from the start.

하지만 월드컵은 처음부터 매니아적 행사다.

Heartbreak and contemplation comes later.

일단 열광하고 나서 아픈 감정도 느끼고 전후좌우도 살피는 거다.

We are now four days in and I have yet to hear a stray remark about the U.S. Open or the Heat and the Spurs or even the Mets.

이제 시작한지 겨우 나흘째다. 아직 사람들이 US 오픈 골프나 새로 개봉한 영화나 프로농구, 심지어 프로야구에도 관심을 빼앗기지 않은 채 몰입하고 있다.

A lot of major sporting events like to claim they’re the center of the sports universe.

많은 주요 스포츠 행사들이 스포츠 세계의 꽃이 되고 싶어한다.

This feels like the center of the sports universe.

월드컵이야말로 스포츠 세계의 꽃인 것 같다.

There’s nothing like a World Cup.

월드컵 만한 건 없다.

Even a newcomer can detect that.

나같은 초짜도 그건 느낄 수 있다.

어휘

source: 네이버 사전, 다음 사전

♥ bluff

[동사]

1. 허세를 부리다, 엄포를 놓다

-I don’t think he’ll shoot—I think he’s just bluffing.

-그가 총을 쏘지는 않을 거야. 그냥 엄포를 놓는 거라고 봐.

[명사]

1. [U , C] 허세, 엄포

-He said he would resign if he didn’t get more money, but it was only a bluff.

-그는 돈을 더 못 받으면 사직하겠다고 했지만 그것은 엄포일 뿐이었다.

2. [C] (특히 바다나 강가의) 절벽

[형용사]

1. 사람이나 태도가 화통한

-Beneath his bluff exterior he was a sensitive man.

-그는 겉보기는 화통하지만 속은 예민한 남자였다.

[영영사전]

1. [NOUN] A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.

-It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff.

-군사적인 수단을 강화하고 이것이 단순한 엄포가 아님을 보여주는 것이 중요하다.

2. [PHRASE] If you call someone’s bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.

-The Socialists have decided to call the opposition’s bluff.

-사회당원들은 야당의 엄포에 해볼 테면 해보라는 자세로 맞서기로 했다.

3. [VERB] If you bluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.

-In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades

-각각의 경우 납치범들이 가짜 수류탄을 사용해 승무원들에게 엄포를 놓았다.

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