To: Thomas M. who wrote (2312 ) 7/9/2002 12:45:56 AM From: X Y Zebra Read Replies (4) | Respond to ROFLOL is right....whether our ribs could take any further punishment, along came Luciano Gaucci, the president of the Perugia football club and therefore Ahn Jung Hwan's boss, to add to the gaiety of nations. Gaucci announced that Ahn was fired. "That gentleman will never set foot in Perugia again," Gaucci said. "I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian soccer." Whether sacking a striker for scoring a goal is strictly in accordance with European employment law remains to be seen, and in any case a Perugia spokesman swiftly distanced the club from Signor Gaucci's remarks. At the time of writing, Ahn's future career plans are uncertain.------ROFLOL------ Gary Lineker, a former player on England's national team who now works for the BBC, once memorably described football as a game in which twenty-two players chase a ball around for ninety minutes—and then the Germans win. the Brazilians had innumerable chances to score a second goal and kill the game but chose instead to shoot from impossible distances and ludicrous angles when better-placed colleagues were screaming for the ball. (If the just-enough Germans ever start mating with the profligate Brazilians, watch out.) And yet Brazil plays a brand of football—imaginative, fluid, absurdly skillful—that no one else in the world, and certainly nobody in Europe, has ever been able to emulate. This wasn't a vintage Brazilian team, but it still contained three forwards who could walk—or, rather, shuffle, with a couple of wiggles and the odd shimmy—into any other side in the world.
