Tuesday 10 June 2008

Renaming the blog

I am considering changing the name of the blog. This name is a little moralistic, even if intended ironically. Feeling attracted to Brazil and its football, here are two possible options.
1- The World of Lidoanho
2- Em que mundo voce vive, amigao?

Lidoanho is a fictitious attacking midfielder.
The second phrase is similar in Italian, and expresses disbelief. In English it could be translated as "in what world do you live, my friend?". It was found in a youtube comment section. Any argument can go to those extents (when you have to wonder whether your opponent is a fellow terrestrian), but football ones do it better.
Garrincha died as an alcoholic, aged fifty, in the eighties: definitely one of those people whose life is better in recollection than in actuality. It is also rumored that he was slow-ish, not with his feet but with his reasoning (read: retarded). When he was signed, says wikipedia, by Botafogo, he was already a father. Later in his life he tried to run over his own father with a car- that was when he had stopped playing and just before his wife left him. Despite this he had a remarkable nickname, which, were it not too ambitious, would be a good title for this blog: Alegria do Povo (the Joy of People). Then again, joy for others often is the other side of misery for oneself.

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