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Life in Austin: Update (not worth reading)

Friday, April 11, 2008

There is a time in every blogger’s life when you simply don’t have much interesting material to post about, so you decide to create a post about the last few things that have been going on. Unfortunately this is not the first time I do this, so feel free to drop some hate comments and [...]

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Happy Holidays 2007

Thursday, December 20, 2007

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Chichipanguanorrea 3.0 staff wishes you love and joy during these holidays and an amazing new year 2008. This time we are very sorry we could not hire neither Ugly Santa nor Ugly Elf, but we put together this beautiful christmas tree to keep the holiday spirit alive and we hope you enjoy it [...]

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Atlético Nacional Campeón 2007

Sunday, June 17, 2007

1954, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2005 y 2007!
Nueve estrellas, nueve glorias!
SOY DEL VERDE, SOY FELIZ!

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FIFA is peeing 2500 meters outside the toilet

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Joseph S. Blatter strikes again. AP Photo/Diether Endlicher
“Está meando fuera del tiesto”, is an expression in Spanish that means that someone is doing something stupid (like peeing outside the toilet!), and that is exactly what the world’s most important soccer organization is doing by issuing a new regulation that states that no international soccer match [...]

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Adventures in Spain

Sunday, December 3, 2006

I started posting a few comments from Spain during my trip, but then it became more difficult to find internet access. Now I’m back in Austin after a very loooong flight back home and I’m very pleased to say that my trip was fantastic. I think Spain is a beautiful country with very nice people, [...]

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World Cup 2006 – Jogo Feio

Monday, July 10, 2006

Another World Cup is over and that only means that we have four boring years ahead!
Today the Italians won their 4th World Cup 24 years after they won their last one back in 1982. I must say that the Italian team was very compact and well organized in defense. They played very good as a [...]

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World Cup 2006 – CONCACAF VS CONMEBOL

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Here are the final numbers comparing both confederations:
CONCACAF: P:13 W:1 D:3 L:9 Pts:6 (0.48 points per game)
CONMEBOL: P:16 W:10 D:1 L:5 Pts:31 (1.94 ppg)

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World Cup 2006 – Before semi finals

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

The World Cup 2006 is almost over with only four games left.
It’s going to be an all-european teams semi final which proves again that European countries are very strong when they host the World Cup. Only Brazil has been able to win a WC in Europe when they did back in Sweden 1958.
The semi finals [...]

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World Cup 2006 – First round summary

Friday, June 23, 2006

Group A
Germany had a very solid first round winning all three games. Ecuador, after having great performances against Poland and Costa Rica played a regular game against Germany.
Group B
England finished at the top of its group but they didn’t looked unbeatable after the game with Sweden. Sweden improved some from its first game and it’s [...]

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World Cup 2006 – Now that we’ve seen all the teams…

Thursday, June 15, 2006

This is how I would classify the different teams
Candidates to win the WC: Brazil, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany.
Brazil obviously is everyone’s favorite, although they didn’t have a great game against Croatia. Spain smashed Ukraine and has a very strong team, with very young players on the attack. The Czechs are not a surprise: they’ve [...]

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