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Friday, October 10, 2014

Smoggy

Soccer players: Is there ANYTHING they won't whine about?

Brazil coach Dunga Friday warned Beijing's choking smog was likely to affect the highly anticipated friendly with Argentina by forcing him to make mass substitutions.

With an "orange" pollution alert in the Chinese capital, and several complaints from his team, Dunga said he would limit players' time on the pitch to reduce their exposure.


Oh cry, cry, cry. I swear if you handed a kick-ball player a free bottle of booze, two cute whores and the keys to a Ferrari, he'd find something about which to complain.

Davis and I ran track and cross-country practice every day for our freshman, sophomore and junior years directly across the freeway from the most heavily industrialized area in Texas. Builds stamina; good for the constitution. When I got to my first Marine Corps duty station in Hawaii a couple years later, all that clean tropical air turned me into an Olympic-level runner.

Besides, it looks kinda cool, doesn't it? Rather Blade Runner-esque, I think...

2 Comments:

Blogger Banduar said...

"Dunga said he would limit players' time on the pitch to reduce their exposure."

Reduce their exposure... TO AIR?!?!

15:32  
Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

Heh. Actually, my initial reaction was "Wow, cool Blade Runner shot, I don't remember that building." :)

Blade Runner took place in 2019...so, in one area at least we seem to be on track.

11:26  

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