RIP. I thought he got better recently.
Diego Maradona has died
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#282The real spirit of soccer. I was his fan and I would miss him so much. But the game continues that is the only way to immortalize him.
If players are allowed to play in Europe, fans that are under 35 years should be allowed inside the stadiums. Life must continue, empty stadiums turn fields to graveyards.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't disagree with you. But it is not like first world countries are inmune. Just look at a current president whose lies, cheating and incompetence are inexplicably excused by 70 million first world voters.
Oh I'm not saying that it's immune at all, but the outrage against Trump is at the very least visible and palpable and those who excuse them are visibly ashamed of the support.
Half of the country is “visibly ashamed”? Come on, man.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI, all your comments are dead. They are hidden
How did you replied then?
I have turned on 'showdead' in my settings.
Even this specific comment of yours was dead. I had to vouch for it to reply to you.
Somebody/bot is flagging all your comments instantly. email the mods hn@ycombinator.com to ask them to remove this. Seems like none of your comments are against the rules
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (in a game England invented) It seems that soccer was invented in China, not in England. [0] [0]: https://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-soccer-footb...
Did you read the link you posted? > Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,” into the game we know today. In short: everyone lays claim to kicking around a ball, but England…
When people talk about "the modern game", I think most would agree we're talking about passing to players running into a better position further up the pitch
The first rules established in England allowed no such thing. Forward passes were still not permitted (like Rugby). It was in Scotland where the offside rule that loosely resembles what it is today was actually invented, allowing players to spread themselves a bit more around the pitch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_Game#Queens_Park_F...
After a few thumping defeats, the English sides had to evolve to remain competetive.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watched this game live in 1986... the atmosphere that day, in that heat and altitude they had to play in, even on the little 14" TV we had in our house was palpable. There was something about the quality of the colors, the weather, the camera work, even to this day you can distinguish the video from the '86 World Cup at a glance of just a couple of seconds. It still brings back such amazing memories from my childho…
The heat? I live in Mexico City, it's basically never hot here. That game was on June 22, and according to WolframAlpha that day had a high of 15C. I don't know if that data is accurate, but I can tell you a high of 15C in June is plausible. Even if Wolfram's data is sketchy, I'd bet the high temperature on that day was somewhere between 15C and 25C.
Surely you have a day or two where it gets hot. Maybe the TV commentator said it was a hot day.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
after Pele you mean.
Not really. Consensus top 3 is Maradona, with usually Messi and the third more controversial usually goes to one of the Ronaldos or Cruyff.
Pele won 3 world cups. He won 2 world titles with Santos. Santos used to travel around the world like the globetrotters because of him. He scored more than 1000 goals.
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#288In case someone has not seen the second goal against England in 1986 Original footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVho3I0NtU An interview many years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOz2uGMTA2w
I watched this game live in 1986... the atmosphere that day, in that heat and altitude they had to play in, even on the little 14" TV we had in our house was palpable. There was something about the quality of the colors, the weather, the camera work, even to this day you can distinguish the video from the '86 World Cup at a glance of just a couple of seconds. It still brings back such amazing memories from my childho…
Because this is HN, no article gets away without a retro computing reference.
Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shilton's_Handball_Marad...
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't make him utterly ignorant.
Well I insist it does because the first thing anyone with enough intellectual humility to get beyond utter ignorance would be to look up who this guy everyone is talking about was instead of repeating ad nauseam that they don't know anything about him, so this can't be objectively relevant. What information gives that to anyone except the empty personal feelings of someone who needs to post something just because? I…
Gotcha. I only meant the sheer fact that he didn't know who he was, was not in itself anything that makes him ignorant. But yes, it was his response/reaction to discovering the story of this "mysterious" person that indeed took a surprising turn. Thanks for clarifying.
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#290God is dead.