Since we got to the
Philippines many things drew our attention and almost all the time,
with no exceptions, they were good things. Among all those good
things was the lack of interest of the people in football. For me,
that I despise football, it was a liberating experience not to have
to hear the same reflex response I get from people everywhere I go,
every time I say I'm from Argentina. “oh!Argentina! Maradona!”
and these days it only got worse because we have a new one, Messi.
Being from Barcelona, Julia is also affected by the latter. On the
contrary, in the Philippines paradise exists because football seems
to be irrelevant. Beautiful. However, after having seen the “sport”
that takes the place of football as the national “sport”, for the
first time in my life I felt some true appreciation for football and
I would've preferred it had been more popular than this monstrosity.
