Ugo Cei’s Weblog
I think this goalie was a bit too vehement, don’t you think?
What’s more amazing is that all he got was just a yellow card. What did he have to do in order to deserve a red card? Spit on the adversary’s grave?
For the record, this happened during the Hamburg vs. Werder Brema match in the Bundesliga. More shocking pictures here.
This is old news, and Gianugo already blogged brilliantly about it, but I didn’t want to write about it until Paolo provided me with pictures to document the event, lest people believe that it was all a hoax. But it’s true: you can be a geek and win a national decathlon title (no less than three times) and here are the pictures to prove it.
Congratulations, Paolo!
I noticed a marked peak of visitors to this website this morning looking for something about Ronaldinho. I have a couple of pages hosting Ronaldinho videos here and here that for some reason are ranking fairly well in Google, so it’s normal for me that many visitors come here looking for some videos of Ronaldinho’s magic tricks with the ball. But this morning’s traffic is higher than usual, so I figured out he must have done another one of his tricks. A brief search reveals that yesterday (November 25) he scored a wonderful goal in the game against Villareal in the Spanish Liga. Unfortunately, the only video I could find isn’t of very good quality and you have to suffer the Arab commentary, but here it goes:
Update: found a better video with Spanish commentary.
Technorati Tags: ronaldinho, barcelona, villareal, goal.
A quick IQ test. What is the next symbol in the following sequence?
LOSE, DNQ, DNQ, WIN, DNQ, DNQ, LOSE, DNQ, DNQ
It should be pretty obvious to anyone that the next symbol is WIN, if logic applies. Unfortunately, logic does not apply to football. So, even if the above sequence faithfully describes Italy’s score in the World Cup finals since 1970, there is no guarantee that the next one, tonight against France, is going to be a WIN.
I am a bit saddened, by the way, from being able to remember each one of the finals Italy played, starting from the 1970 one. I remember it only barely, as I was very young at the time, but still I remember the circumstances around it. This means I’m really getting old.
Technorati Tags: worldcup, world cup, fifa, italy, france, football, berlin.
Matt Asay: “In short, open source = Arsenal. Enterprise bloatware = Juventus.”
If that were true, Arsenal would be the winning team, as Open Source is winning more and more often against enterprise bloatware. Instead, Arsenal is doing so-so and Juventus is about two win the second championship in a row. How comes? Well, I guess we’ll find out on March 28 ;).
No, I’m not referring to Ajax as in Asynchronous Javascript and XML — Apache Cocoon has actually been supporting Ajax for quite a long time — but to Ajax as the football team from Amsterdam.
The reason why I’m putting Cocoon supports Ajax in the title of this post is that yesterday a bunch of Apache Cocoon developers (including three committers) went to the Amsterdam Arena to show their support for the home team in the Champions League football match against Inter F.C.
(If you thought that I, as an Italian, should have supported Inter, think again.)
Ajax, with a young and unexperienced lineup, started off briskly and hit Inter twice, with Huntelaar and Rosales in the first 20 minutes. We were cheering together with the other 49,000 people at the Arena, but our enthusiasm lasted only until the beginning of the second half, when Stankovic scored a lucky hit and then, just four minutes before the end of regular time, Julio Cruz (ex-Feyenoord) equalized for Inter from a short distance, thanks to an illuminating pass by Figo and then Cambiasso.
All in all, it was a nice match but I think Ajax has little hope of going through, having to win against Inter in Milan in two weeks: hardly probable. I also managed to shoot a fair number of good photographs (including two of the goals) and finally resolved to upgrade my Flickr account to “pro” level in order to be able to upload most of them. You can see the results in my Ajav vs. Inter set. I must say that my Panasonic DMC-FZ20 performed very well, thanks to its long zoom lens and incredibly useful image stabilizer.
Fancy going to the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics? Think again, as you won’t probably be able to buy tickets online, since the official ticketing website has been showing the following message for a few days:
Welcome to the Official Torino 2006 Ticketing website
ATTENTION: This site is actually busy, too many users are now connected.
Please try again in the next minutes.
Thank You.
In the meantime, you can content yourself with some photos, videos and podcasts from Cafe Olympic.
Update: just a few seconds after I posted this, the website started working again. We’ll see if it lasts, I guess.
From my webserver logs, I know that lots of people are coming here from search engines, doing queries like “ronaldinho video” just because some time ago I posted here a link to a video of Ronaldinho scoring a fantastic goal against Chelsea in last season’s UEFA Champions League.
Today I want to give those people some more fun stuff to download. Here’s a video (from Nike’s site) of Ronaldinho doing some incredible things with a football. So incredible that many believe the video to be a fake, computer generated or such. I have some doubts myslelf but if it’s really a fake, it’s very good.Well, judge by yourself.
I’m not a golfer or a golf fan, but for the benefit of my golfer smaller brother and my golfer friend Gianugo, I’m linking to the video of Tiger Wood’s ace shot at the Augusta National this Sunday (from Jaffe Juice).
It downloading from there is too slow, Dave Winer has kindly provided a copy here.
Add this to the video of Ronaldinho’s goal in Chelsea-Barcelona and I am thinking about dedicating a category of this site to videos of the best sporting feats. By the way, yesterday Ronaldinho scored another extraordinary shot against Real Madrid, but once again Barcelona lost 4-2. Must be a spell ;).
As is customary every year, on the next-to-last March Saturday, the Milano-Sanremo cycling race passes right in front of our house. I took a few pictures but none was very good.
Anyway, being a nice, warm day, I was inspired to go for a short bike ride with my friends. Only about 50km, but not bad for one of the first exits of the season.
Update: the race was won by my favorite: Alessandro Petacchi. Go, Alessandro!
Sorry to interrupt the usual flow of geeky topics, but I just finished watching the UEFA Champions League football (soccer if you prefer) match between Chelsea and Barcelona and it was awesome! Six goals, of which one, by Ronaldinho, simply extraordinary.
We’ll se if Juventus and Real Madrid can offer a similarly entertaining show tomorrow.
Update: here’s the video of Ronaldinho’s goal (5MB).
