At the end of December, many make New Year’s resolutions to implement from the first day of January. As the annual hourglass counts down, people analyze their shortcomings or excesses and consider how to balance them: learning a new language, exercising more, reducing or eliminating vices... However, as the weeks go by, these goals are often forgotten due to daily commitments, laziness, or simply because they stem from excessive ambition.Seguir leyendo

The sidewalks outside the San Isidro courts, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, were once again filled with television cameras, journalists, and onlookers on Thursday morning. After a first failed attempt, these courts are hosting a second trial to determine responsibility for Diego Maradona’s death in November 2020. Now, a new element has cast doubt over the process. The lawyer for one of the accused warned that some of the clinical analyses examined by the medical panel did not belong to the soccer legend but to his father, who was also called Diego Maradona. As a result, a central part of the evidence will have to be reviewed and risks being declared null and void.Seguir leyendo

The World Cup in Donald Trump’s United States is full of paradoxes. For the first time, one country, Iran, is playing on the territory of another with which it is at war. The host, which is supposed to open its doors to the world to celebrate football’s biggest global event, is denying entry to officials and fans from nations it considers unwelcome. Contradictions emerge even within its own national team. Folarin Balogun, the United States’ striker and leading scorer, embodies them: while the Supreme Court is expected this week to rule on the future of birthright citizenship that the president wants to eliminate, the U.S. team’s top scorer at the World Cup can only play for the country thanks to that right.Seguir leyendo