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@rossa-slongo, thanks for a reply, it's a pleasure to read you.

Especially part about Senna. You put it exactly how I feel it. I maybe formulated my question wrong. I know how good he was in the car. There I think he's absolutely not overrated. But yes, I mean more of him as a person, as a semi-God...I just wonder would he be so immortal had he been less handsome, charismatic, "noble" and....smooth, and tragic ofc.

I have a feeling Senna really represented what average Brazilian wanted to be but could never reach.

I'm sure you saw this

The only equivalent to Senna is Maradona in Argentina to me. People cherished due to being just irreplaceable as national pride, and with powerful auras and declarations. Even Pelé in my opinion is more replaceable than Senna. It would not be impossible for a team like 1970's to win without him, and keep in mind that he did not play in 1962.

If he had the crazy "bananerismo" (thanks to a Spanish user in the Libertadores thread for the word) of Maradona instead, I believe nothing would change. He would be loved even as a temperamental, assertive, mistake-making person.

But his general elegance was the icing on the cake.
I tell you, it's very hard for a Brazilian to be like that. Brazil is a cynic (in the modern sense of the word), dog-eat-dog country. More than in almost any place, it's hard to be "good", i.e. not to play games with people, just do one's job and grow his own things. "Humbleness" is a buzzword for the average idiot here but people don't really know its meaning. The only dividing things he ever done were some political opinions, he was in favor of the military regime and the Sao Paulo state governor Paulo Maluf, linked with such regime. But only idiots put a man down for politics.

The documentary is beautiful. Actually it was when I became a "fan".

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The pint is relatively cheap. But this is a university student town, the worst of the worst will predominate, so I can't recall anywhere really that is not very pretentious. Perhaps if you go to the outskirts you can find something.

They say from whole Latin America, the universities in Argentina are the wokest and have become centers of indoctrination. Have you had this impression? Or is it just regarding the typical liberal careers (sociology, arts, etc)?

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They say from whole Latin America, the universities in Argentina are the wokest and have become centers of indoctrination. Have you had this impression? Or is it just regarding the typical liberal careers (sociology, arts, etc)?

Most people are able to filter the bullshit, but yeah, the "centros de estudiantes" are caves of stupid leftists. Their most genius move was in the UNLP med school when they removed the ingreso course, so all 5000 students were able to start the first year even if they did not know shit, in the same structure that once had a maximum of 800 students. The public universities are pure mafia and the alumni representants are dumbasses. I have a friend on Physical Education and other on Journalism and Law, both are inclined to Peronism, but not stupid like the average lib.

I feel for the Argentinians because their option to the Kirchner cartel is Mauricio Macri of all people.

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The only equivalent to Senna is Maradona in Argentina to me.

FIFA or Winning Eleven?

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FIFA or Winning Eleven?

Winning Eleven by far, old Master League was the closest thing to a good football RPG there ever was (Football Manager could be considered but it gets very boring). Being able to design your own badge, team name and uniform, starting with mythical players like Castolo, Ivarov, Minanda, Jaric and growing to the big leagues.

FIFA 07 was my first football game so I have fond memories of it, but WE 10 was the sort of stuff that made me fall in love with football even more.

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Winning Eleven by far, old Master League was the closest thing to a good football RPG there ever was (Football Manager could be considered but it gets very boring). Being able to design your own badge, team name and uniform, starting with mythical players like Castolo, Ivarov, Minanda, Jaric and growing to the big leagues.

FIFA 07 was my first football game so I have fond memories of it, but WE 10 was the sort of stuff that made me fall in love with football even more.

Indeed. When me and my friends gathered here to play WE my grandma (may she rest in peace) always thought we were watching a real match lol so exciting it was.

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Indeed. When me and my friends gathered here to play WE my grandma (may she rest in peace) always thought we were watching a real match lol so exciting it was.

I regained my obsession with it in quarantine as I could not play football anymore. They don't make them like that anymore, this game is beautiiful and perhaps the reason why my favourite era of the sport is between 2004 and 2010.

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I regained my obsession with it in quarantine as I could not play football anymore.

What's your opinion about Loco Abreu?

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What's your opinion about Loco Abreu?

A good player with classic urugayan antics. In a country where things are not taken as seriously as they should football-wise like Brazil, he became a cult hero.

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