http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
More than fifty years later, he was passing through customs at Rio when the young official examining his passport asked him if he was the Ghiggia who had scored the winning goal. “I said: 'Yes, but it was a long time ago.’ And she put her hand on her heart and said: “No, no, it still hurts us here.”
RIP Alcides Ghigga
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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RIP Alcides Ghigga
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: RIP Alcides Ghigga
The author of TMitSSS' article also wrote:He died on the 65th anniversary of his most famous match, while talking – his son said – about football.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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