Maradona and Chavez; dig the shirt!

[YDogg]

[Fenris]

1. This ought to get spicy!

[mod mom]

2. Please excuse my ignorance but who is this wonderful man-Maradona?

[oda]

4. hey

hes a soccer player from what ive gathered

[patdem]

5. I think he is a famous soccer player? I thought they misspelled Madonna

the first time I saw the name..it is not ignorance..it is that we don't follow sports!

[arcos]

6. One of the most famous soccer players ever...

He's a god in Argentina and in most of Latin America... along with Pelé from Brazil, he's probably the biggest player in the history of soccer.

[acmejack]

7. His website...

http://www.diegomaradona.com/

edit add Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona

[Lena inRI]

8. Made soccer look like dancing. . .

so agile he could twist and turn his way out of any jam. . .graceful soccer at its best. . .I know because my midfielder daughter was nicknamed after him for similar-style playing!

B-)

[mrfrapp]

10. He's a Soccer Player

He's a soccer player. Famous because of his prodigious talent, infamous because he's a cheat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/2396503.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_God_goal

[arcos]

3. I just saw Maradona on TV with another shirt... (picture!)

Here he is, along with Presidencial candidate Evo Morales from Bolivia.

[trumad]

9. He lost a ton of weight... I mean a ton...

[arcos]

13. yeah! He had a gastric bypass surgery...

And it definitely gave him good results!

[madrchsod]

11. "the hand of god"

dam good player but his coke habit took the luster off his mystique

[YDogg]

12. "... his coke habit took the luster off his mystique." Bush had mystique?

:bounce:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

14. the infamous Hand of God

[Cha]

15. I found out down thread who

Maradona is and let me tell you..this is Awesome!

snip~"Protesters have organized an anti-summit outside the security ring around Mar del Plata's top hotels. Bush will be the focus of their ire, and Chavez is set to speak on Friday in an event including Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona and families of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq."


http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-11-02T153421Z_01_SIB256005_RTRUKOC_0_US-LATAM-SUMMIT.xml