World Cup 2010 Blog: Mexico’s Traveling Towering Talisman

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Mexico’s Traveling Towering Talisman Posted: 25 Mar 2010 01:40 AM PDT Given that the World Cup is the granddaddy of the sport, you can hardly begrudge a country for doing everything short of selling out their grandmommy for a decent run. So while you can’t really blame Mexico for bringing along their giant good luck charm, you’d have to think a lucky coin or a saint’s medal might be just as good. Those at least don’t require teams of movers rivaling the Egyptian pyramid builders. As I’m sure you’ve figure out by now, an exact replica of that statue, El Ángel, which stands on a platform in Mexico City, will be the 24th…err…woman on the Mexican national team during the World Cup. Mexican soccer fans often gather by the thousands at the 100-year-old statue in Mexico City after important victories, running circles around it and waving flags. Tourism Secretary Alejandro Rojas says shipping and diplomatic arrangements are underway to get the statue to Johannesburg. Once there, he said, it will be set up in a public space so fans from other nations also can gather by the statue. We can only hope they mean the statue alone, rather than the entire monument: Statue alone or not, I sense a real space problem in South Africa should this catch on – Christ the Redeemer alone might clear out Jo’burg.

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