My World Cup entry

Maybe it is because the Americans did a wonderful job in selling themselves to us, Filipinos, that I felt more involved in the recent, and annual, NBA Finals rather than the "every 4-year" event called - the World Cup.

But I did manage to watch one game in its entirety, Germany versus Argentina. I watched because I wanted to see if Diego Maradonna was able to bring his magic from being a player to being the one who calls the shots. And if anybody watched that game, Argentina got blown away.

But this is not about that :)

This is about a simple curiosity. It is about football and, well, Filipino's amor with basketball :)

Maybe it is better to frame it as something about an irony :)

You see, in playing basketball you definitely need height. Why? Because in order to score, you need to put the ball through a hoop that's 10-feet tall. And Filipino's, on average, measure around 5'6" for male and 5'1" for female.

And in the game of football, height becomes an issue only for the goalkeeper. But for the rest of the team, speed, and grace, always trumps height. Why? One does not need height to control the ball and to score a goal. And the fact that the ball is on the ground, helps :)

Here's the thing, you see some Filipino street children was recently invited to a street children version of the World Cup in Brazil and guess who won? The Filipino Team.

Let's put this in perspective. Brazil produced Pele. Brazil is Football Country. And yet, our "boy palaboys" defeated them? That tells you something, right?

Maybe it is time to rethink this whole thing :-)

"... why think like mere men?"