Argentine TV station uses Trump to promote soccer match

[Beacool]

By Nolan D. McCaskill
05/03/16

An Argentine television station is using Donald Trump’s immigration rhetoric in a promotional video for Argentina’s national soccer team ahead of the U.S.-hosted Copa America Centenario tournament next month.

The minute-plus ad begins by introducing the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump as a businessman.

“Our country is in serious trouble. We’re having people coming in through the border that are not people that we want,” Trump says over clips of the team exiting a plane.

“Thousands of people are coming through the border — hundreds of thousands — and they’re unchecked,” Trump says as the video shows swaths of Argentine fans chanting and cheering, many with the national flag.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/argentina-copa-trump-soccer-222731

Love it. The world is watching and laughing at Trump.

Go, Argentina. Go, Messi.






Cool story about the Afghani child (shown on the gif above) who wanted a Messi jersey.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/football/messi-boy-murtaza-ahmadi-barcelona-argentina-shirt/index.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. The child and his family have fled Afghanistan after demands for money

Messi boy: Murtaza Ahmadi flees Afghanistan threats

A five-year-old Afghan boy whose image went viral after he was photographed wearing a homemade Lionel Messi shirt has fled with his family to Pakistan.

Murtaza Ahmadi's father said they had received threats of kidnap, including from a gangster demanding money.
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"A few days ago I got a call from a local gangster. He thought that since my son had received these T-shirts from Messi that maybe he also got money and asked for his share," Arif Ahmadi told the BBC.

Now the family hope Quetta will provide a chance of a better life, even though Murtaza and seven of his family members are all crammed into one room.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36192300

[Beacool]

2. Yes, it's terrible.

The Taliban and their Neanderthal ways have a grip on that country.

Sad.......

[KamaAina]

3. Huh? There are no soccer matches in Argentina.

Only we call the Beautiful Game "soccer". Everyone else calls it football or futbol.

[Beacool]

4. Yeah, well......

Unfortunately it appears that we couldn't come up with a better name for American football and usurped the name of the "joga bonita", as Brazilians call the game.

Since I've lived overseas, when I hear of football I think of the game played by Pele, Maradona and Messi. The most popular sport in the world.