lunes, 25 de mayo de 2009

Darlings of Spain

Por esto soy del St. Pauli y del Sporting:

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2009/05/21/1278919/spanish-inquisition-sporting-de-gijon-the-darlings-of-spain



Spanish Inquisition: Sporting de Gijon, The Darlings Of Spain

Goal.com's Subhankar Mondal looks at Spanish side Sporting de Gijon's season and says that Spain should be proud to have such a club.....

21 May 2009 18:48:41

The Emirates observed an exodus when Cristiano Ronaldo's second goal went in, the Bernabeu resembled a cemetery when Gerard Pique hit the sixth, the Valencia fans didn't bother to turn up at the Mestalla last season and the Juventus followers vent their anger at the club’s training ground.

Sporting de Gijon fans, on other hand, were cheering their team when they conceded the sixth of the night against Barcelona, were at their loudest when Real Madrid hit their seventh, continued to support their side as they conceded five against Atletico Madrid and couldn't help applaud their old hero David Villa even when he struck the penalty for Valencia against them.

Sporting’s fans are a strange lot, and a whole lot better too. They never lose their voice or their spirit, are at their loudest when their side are at their lowest, have a party throughout the 90 minutes and welcome the opposition - any opposition - with open arms. In Spain they have this habit of booing their own players and walking out on the team at the worst of times but in Asturias and especially in Gijon they don't follow this tradition at all.

El Molinon doesn't brag a UEFA-rated five-star rank but it has one of the best atmospheres in Spain and in Europe. The 26,000 capacity stadium is the oldest in Spain and booms on every matchday. It doesn't matter whether it’s Madrid, Barcelona, Real Betis or Numancia in town; every time there is a Liga match in Gijon, the crowds pour in from everywhere, with their Sporting scarves and kit, the literal embodiment of the 12th man.

Part of the reason is that Sporting supporters are just happy to be brushing shoulders with the big lads of Spain. The last time they featured in the Spanish top flight was in 1997-1998 when Denilson was the world’s most expensive footballer and Villarreal had yet to play a Spanish Primera Division game. It's been ten years and countless failures since then but at the end of last season the biggest club from Asturias was back in the national frame.

But the best fraction of the party is Sporting de Gijon's football team that is dedicated entirely to playing the beautiful game beautifully. Sporting were expected to struggle in their first season in the Spanish top flight and they have not disappointed in this aspect. But unlike what many teams in their position and with their sort of budget would do, they have not played ugly at all and following the almost obsessive and perhaps self-destructive Spanish footballing culture, have adopted a gung-ho style, showing little regard to defending.

Statistically Sporting have the worst defensive record in the Primera Division, having conceded a whooping 77 goals in 36 league matches. They have suffered the highest number of defeats (23) and have the least number of draws - a Liga record of only one. Their backline has been pretty much absent in matches and with their philosophy to play entertaining football even with their restricted budget and limited playing resources they were slated to head for the drop.

But have Sporting been as bad as those damning statistics suggest? Maybe, maybe not. They haven't played the galactic cultured football of Barcelona but their football has been hugely entertaining nevertheless, with a certain degree of refreshing naiveté. The Rojiblancos have dedicated themselves to playing smart passing football, keeping the ball on the ground, playing it among the attacking players and getting on the attack from all sides of the park whenever there is an opportunity to launch an attack on the opposition. Striker Mate Bilic might not be the best in the business but 11 goals in 13 starts have made him a Sporting hero.

Moreover, out of the 77 league goals Sporting have conceded, 20 have come in matches against Spain's Big Two. Their start to the season which saw them take on Sevilla, Barcelona, Madrid and Villarreal in succession was always going to be difficult, but after that Manuel Precidao’s side won four successive league matches.

With two more rounds of matches left in the Spanish top flight this season, Sporting de Gijon are one place above the bottom three, level on points with Osasuna but ahead because of a superior head-to-head record. At the weekend they won thanks to a world class diving header from Helder Rosario into his own net that pulled them out of the relegation zone. In the next two matches Sporting confront nothing-left-to-play-for Real Valladolid and bottom of the pile Recreativo Huelva.

Gijon fans have waited ten years to return to the Spanish top flight but their stay might last for one year only. Asturias have not had a team in the Primera Division since Real Oviedo went down in 2001 and in a league where much of the spice comes from socio-political divisions so characteristic of Spain, a team from Asturias is as much romantic as necessary.

Sporting are La Liga's very own fairytale, La Liga's answer to Serie A's Chievo, another of football's last remaining romantics. And hopefully Sporting’s romantic tale will stretch beyond this season.

Subhankar Mondal, Goal.com

lunes, 11 de mayo de 2009

Cosas que me sacan de quicio cuando rozo la treintena v1.00

El gris es mío, el blanco no y la columna no me hace mucha gracia.

Encuesta:

¿Qué debo hacer con la "vecinita", teniendo en cuenta que

a) no me gusta pasar el trasero por encima de su retrovisor
y
b) la principal función que le doy a la acción de abrir la puerta de piloto es ENTRAR y para ello es primordial y necesario tener el espacio suficiente para el (no muy voluminoso) perfil de mi persona?

lunes, 4 de mayo de 2009

Antón de Marirreguera - "Pleitu ente Uviéu y Mérida..."

Llogrezana (Carreño) 1605 - Albandi (Carreño) 1662

Conocíu col alcuñu d'Antón de Marirreguera ye l'autor de la que se considera la primer obra lliteraria conservada n'asturianu, el «Pleitu ente Uviéu y Mérida pola posesión de les cenices de Santa Olaya», escrita en 1639.

Estudió na Universidá d’Uviéu onde dexó un bon rastru poles trastaes y calaveraes qu’al paecer armó per ellí. Con too, fíxose cura y fue párrocu de Prendes (1634–1644) y Albandi (1645–1661), asina como arcipreste de Carreño dende 1656.

Supónse que'l so pá llamábase Pedro Álvarez Hevia y que morrió mozu; al quedar güérfanu de padre y entamar estudios eclesiásticos, siguiendo la tradición materna, pudo tomar l'apellíu de la so ma. Esto esplicaría que, en dellos manuscritos, apaeza col nome d'Antonio Álvarez.

Tres estudiar Llatín, Humanidaes y Teoloxía na Universidá d'Uviéu, ordenóse cura en 1631 y más tarde, fízose cargu de diverses parroquies en Carreño.

Nos padrones de fidalguía d'esti conceyu apaez col nome d'Antonio González Reguera como cura de Priendes en 1640 y 1644. En 1645 apaez como cura d'Albandi, pero col nome d'Antonio González Moñiz, al garrar l'apellíu de'l so tíu Xoan Moñiz que lu precedió na mesma parroquia.

Na documentación d'Albandi sigue apaeciendo como párrocu hasta 1661, cuando lu sucede nel cargu'l so sobrín Xuan Rodríguez Reguera. Al nun apaecer nos padrones de fidalguía de 1662, supónse que debió morrer ente 1661 y 1662.

Antón González Reguera ye’l primer poeta n’asturiano conocíu de la hestoria. El so poema “Pleitu ente Uviéu y Mérida pola posesión de les cenices de Santa Olaya” ye’l poema n’asturiano más antigu que se conserva. A Santa Olaya de Mérida nomáronla patrona del obispáu d’Uviéu, polo qu’en 1639 cellebraron grandes fiestes y un certame poéticu, onde resulta que premiaron esta poesía d’Antón de Marirreguera dente outres munches escrites en llatín, griegu o castellán.

Xosé Caveda y Nava recoyó esti poema, xunta otros tres más del autor carreñán (“Dido y Eneas”, “Hero y Leandro” y “Píramo y Tisbe”) pa la so antoloxía. Trátense estes pieces, compuestes les tres n’octaves reales, de paródiques versiones d’Ovidio y Virgilio, narraes por un vieyu campesín asturianu al pie del llar. En 1997 Xulio Viejo preparó pa la editorial Alvízoras una percuriada edición de la obra conocida de Antón de Marirreguera baxo'l títulu de Fábules, teatru y romances. Nel ampliu y bien documentáu estudiu introductoriu'l profesor Viejo pon en dulda l'atribución a Marirreguera de la fábula de "Píramo y Tisbe" que recoyera Caveda. Pa esti estudiosu ye probable qu'esa composición seya obra de Benito de Uxa, anque seguramente Antón de Marirreguera tuviera escrito otra col mesmu títulu.

Si González Reguera ye’l fundador del xéneru poéticu n’asturiano, otru tantu podía dicise del dramáticu: “El ensalmador” y “El diálogo político” (tamién recoyíes na antoloxía de Caveda) son dos a modu d’entremeses onde da tamién los sos primeres pasos el teatru en llingua asturiana.


PLEITU ENTE UVIÉU Y MÉRIDA POLA POSESIÓN

DE LES CENICES DE SANTA OLAYA

Cuando examen les abeyes

Y posen de flor en flor,

Si les escurren s’espanten

Vanse y non facen llabor,

Dexando’l caxello vieyo

Pa buscar otro meyor.

Santa Olalla fo l’abeya

Que de Mérida ensamó

Enfadada qu’adorasen

Les fegures de llatón.

Entoncies el rei Don Sil

Andaba en guerra feroz

colos moros que querín

encabezase en Lleón.

Permitiólo aquesta Santa

Que les victories–y dió,

Matanza faciendo nellos

Fasta qu’en Mérida entró.

Llegó al pueblo d’esta ñeña

Que temblaba de pavor,

Y esconfiaba de so cutre

Solliviada de temor.

Cutieron los santos güesos

Viendo que s’arrodiyó:

Si estovieren más carnudos

Saldrín fe–y acatación.

Trúxoles el Rei piadosu,

De llaceria los sacó

Y metiólos per Uviedo

Con gaites y procesión.

Mérida diz que–y tornen

Esta prenda que–y faltó:

Diga ella que quier ise

Y aún con eso... quiera Dios,

Si quieren que la llarguemos,

Páguennos la devoción

Ansí de los que finaron

como de los qu’ora son.

Díguenlo al Santo Sudario

Ver quiciás si da razón,

Pos non tien utro cuidado

El señor San Salvador.

¿Quién ora–y lo mandará?

Bien s’echa de ver que nós:

Si nos lleven esta Santa

No hai más d’arrimar la foz;

Dirán ellos: —“Morrió acá”,

Diremos nós: —“Non morrió,

Qu’está viva per Asturies,

Si está muerta para vos”.

Y anque la lleven, m’obligo

que se torna per u fo,

Porque están de nuestro llado

L’Obispo y Gobernador.

Nosotros los de capote,

cual con un ral, cual con dos,

Seguiremos esti pleito

Fasta llevalo ente Dios.