Silent Lonesome Man

When Ricardo "El Tigre" Gareca first appointed as coach of the Peru national football team, the Peruvians had just entered their 33rd years without a World Cup. The dissatisfaction was high among the national team because they were regarded by their own countrymen as nothing but a bunch of pop stars with no discipline and full of scandals. It was real. And no one imagined just a few years, a villain would turn into a hero. Not so easy Back in 2010, the Uruguayan Armenian manager Sergio Markarián was appointed as coach of Peru following the country disastrous campaign in the 2010 World Cup qualification, where Peru finished bottom with only three victories, despite not losing at home to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In fact, the national team of Peru was so bad for some points, the media in the country named this team "Los hijos de Burga" (sons of Burga), to refer to Manuel Burga Seoane, President of the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) from 2002 to 2014. The ange...

Comparison in the most popular sport in the world appears not wrong overall. If you are a deeply passionate football lover, then football has no border. But even then, that doesn't make sense for me to not think about one of the most absurd comparisons. Yeah, the most popular comparison has to be taken, seriously - South America vs Europe, or... else? That's what I'm talking about. Why is it so absurd? I would rather address the reason for this comparison to be taken. Map of South America. Map of Europe. Already who learnt geography will be very clear about South America and Europe be like. South America is a bit special because it is a subcontinent within a continent: it is part of the Americas, the New World named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian merchant who discovered the continent. Henceforth the development. This was also what started the complicated situation. When it comes to football, South America has been, rather, treated like a separate continent...