Word: futbol
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...many a Porteño, futbol is indispensable Sunday afternoon entertainment. But last Sunday, football, along with all other sports events, was canceled. Argentina was in the midst of its first general census in 33 years. Business closed down, and only essential services were maintained, with skeleton staffs. By presidential decree, all heads of families had to stay home until the census-takers came around...
Whether improving the breed of their horses or strengthening the physique of their potential warriors, the Russians have a kind of competitive spirit the West would find hard to duplicate. For instance, as a Soviet futbol eleven trots out on the field, its players sing a dedication...
...when British merchantmen began putting in at the River Plate, the British have had the inside track in Argentina. Britain is traditionally Argentina's best customer, and one of her chief suppliers. The railways are British-owned and operated, 5 o'clock tea at Harrods is British, futbol is British. When an Argentine pledges his honor he gives the palabra de ingles, "the word of an Englishman...
...years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...
Last week this sports renaissance had gone far. Because Honduras had beaten Guatemala in the Central American futbol championship series being played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...