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| Improvised seating to see the game in La Candelaria. |
This afternoon, much of male Bogotá stopped moving while two teams of men in Spain kicked a ball back and forth. The teams were named
Barcelona and Real Madrid, and allegiance to them reaches almost religious levels here in Colombia - and, I suspect, much of the rest of Latin America.
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| Soccer god Messi races for the ball. |
Sidewalks became impassible as people crowded around restaurant and bar windows to watch the televisions inside. Each time a goal was scored, the
cheering carried for blocks.
Presidential elections? Natural disasters? Invasion from Mars? A match between Colombian football teams? None stops time here the way that
22 millionares kicking a ball back and forth across a field thousands of miles away in Colombia's one-time colonial master do. Could this be
psychological recolonization?
In the end, analysts said it was a lousy game. But
Barcelona won -
Thank God!!! That's what makes life worth living!
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| Even this cop took his eye off of the bad guys. |
By Mike Ceaser, of
Bogotá Bike Tours
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