Libya match minispam
(Is Javi thinking dirty thoughts about Little Luis? Answer as soon as you buzz.)
On Tuesday, various old people (plus Little Luis) competed in a charity match to benefit Libya’s sprogs. Disappointingly, that big tease, Hidetoshi Nakata, didn’t turn up; on the other hand, neither did Maradona, so there is that.
The Transitional Council chap turned up and gave a speech. Blurry!Cannavaro seems delighted.
...Is that girl an Inter child? She should be; she’s got the glasses.
As you’ve probably noticed by now, this match seems to have been at least partly an excuse for a big old 2008!Inter meetup, hence the presence of Matrix, Crespo and that Chilean short-arse.
MATRIX LOVES FOOTBALL!!!
The non-Inter players were mostly Libyan legends. Javi was seriously afraid of Rabah Madjer’s hair.
Javi’s team was called the Coca-Cola Team. It turns out selling fizzy drinks to Libya’s children is helping them. Who knew?
He disapproved very strongly of Little Luis’s boots.
Crespo’s met with his full approval.
Apparently Javi’s team won 8-5. (Report, other report.) The lineups were supposedly thus:
Zenga’s team: The organiser, ex-Libya player Jihad Mountessir, plus Javi, Matrix, Robert Pires, Nedved, Madjer, Jan Kohler, someone called Zuwei who got a hat-trick, plus an unknown entity who Inter.it call “the Libya keeper”. (Sameer Aboud?)
Lippi’s team: Hadji Diouf, Little Luis, Crespo, Fabio Cannavaro, Nicky Butt (Ruben De La Red also came on at some point)
I’m loath to take the news reports very seriously, though, because they also insist Nakata was on Lippi’s team and that nobody took a picture of him, and I refuse to believe that’s true.
(Careful with the pictures, Inter.it. You’ll break something, huge file size like that.)
Javi: *Bemoans the absence of Nakata pictures*
In slightly less Intery news, this gargoyle was playing for the “Adib” team. Wtf.
Oh, and there was some blond bloke.
Matrix seems to have made it through the match without losing very many limbs.
He spent most of his time being impressed with Diouf’s shiny head.
He was sad he couldn’t wrap himself in a Libya flag.
Aha, he’s found himself another shiny bald head to admire. That’s him sorted, then.
Cannavaro, while pleased with the abundance of hugs, was concerned that he wasn’t getting any.
Fortunately, he’s not scared of odd hair.
Finally, there is a minuscule picture that does not exist, and on which the word “Nakata” is definitely not visible. The bastards.
The video highlights of the “match” are here; click the little X in the top right-hand corner of the video if it tries to play an advert at you. Nakata is not visible at 1:50, because he wasn’t there.