a 25 minute blog

This is in a tremendous hurry.
Within 25 minutes the blog must have been written and published.

What is the hurry?
Is it a train that has to be caught?
A plane leaving soon?
An important meeting maybe with hotshots?
An escape from a coming disaster?
The Japs attacking with their Zeros soon?

Not all of that.
It is that the first match of this year's World Championship of Soccer starts in 20 minutes.
In South Africa.
For them comfortably at 4 pm but that is 8 am Mexican time.

The opening match happens to be South Africa playing Mexico.
Therefore, the Gonzales family at Punta Boca del Salado, Baja California switch on their small solar powered SKY-satellite TV.
And watch expecting, as Ismael said last night, Mexico to win 2-0 or even 3-1.

Of course not all the members of the Gonzales family are able to watch.
Ketcha has no strong interest in soccer to begin with and then there is her work in the kitchen: the men need breakfast.
And Gumaro has his cows to milk and these animals always have his priority.

It is Ismael and Juan Manuel and Edgar who watch.
Their work can wait.
Which is not much these days to begin with.

Juan Manuel has a big truck to transport sand.
But because building houses in this area, due to the economic crises, has come to a standstill, he hardly has work.
Ismael drives a water truck to supply the houses in the area of the rancho.
But the foreign owners of these houses are not coming anymore that often: they are struggling to make money where they live.

For the next two weeks it will be soccer to see.
The most interesting soccer because the championship is between national teams.
The players basically want to win for the glory of their country.
Not for their bank account as they are used to do.

Watching soccer on TV has been giving up a long time ago.
Once it was allowed that the teams of cities could buy players from anywhere in the world.
This has created the situation that teams from cities like Manchester in the UK and Madrid in Spain consist mainly of non-Madrid and non-Manchester players.
Even non-Spanish and non-British.
This has resulted in teams winning competitions who were having the most money.
Able to buy players from anywhere.

But now the US-team is composed of Gringo's only.
Playing the UK-team of only English guys tomorrow.
And Monday Holland boys play Danish boys.

Only 10 minutes left.
Have to run.
2-0 Ismael predicts.
Let's go and see.



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