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| A Name to Remember: Jankel Schor (The 82 Year Old Keepie Uppie Legend) Posted: 14 Apr 2009 07:10 AM PDT
My first thought was “Did they just say he was 82 years old?”, and my second was “Is this on YouTube?” They did. And it is:
Apparently Mr. Schor can do 3,000 keepie uppies at a time. By sheer co-incidence, that’s about 3,000 times more than I can do. And this isn’t even one of those stereotype confirming things about all Brazilians being brilliant at football. Mr. Schor was actually born in Russia, and later became a naturalized Brazilian (which certainly goes against the recent trend the other way. At four score and two years of age, Mr. Schor is easily our oldest ever Name to Remember (they’re usually teenagers or younger). But just like those other wonderkids, Mr. Schor has big plans for the future. He wants to share his skills with a worldwide audience when Brazil hosts the World Cup in five 2014 We may or may not get to see Mr. Schor perform at World Cup 2014. Five years is a long time. But if you’d told me last week that an 82 year old man could do 3,000 keepie uppies then I’d have called you a liar. So after watching the above video, the idea of an 87 year old man doing keepie uppies suddenly seems a lot more reasonable. Hats off to Mr. Schor, and long may he keep keepie upping.        This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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There’s been a lot of oddball fallout from last week’s World Cup qualifiers. We didn’t cover these stories when they broke, but figured it would make a nice weird Friday afternoon roundup for anyone who hasn’t already seen these stories somewhere else. How weird are we talking? How about laser beams, poisoned food and half of a starting XI being forcibly retired from international football.
We haven’t done a FIFA World Rankings post since back December 2008, mostly because it’s all been much of a muchness. Spain ruled the roost, everyone else didn’t and the top 20 barely moved. There was no news to report. And so we didn’t.
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