{"id":1926,"date":"2026-06-13T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlostyle.net\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:58:28","slug":"herbert-waass-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlostyle.net\/en\/il-mondiale-di-herbert-waas\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Waas's World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have you ever experienced the sweetness of the Tyrrhenian coves in southern Tuscany?<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery morning, in harmonious embraces, houses and boats caress the elegant blue of Mr Neptune's gaming table carpet.<br \/>\nIt's an elegant and brilliant blue.<br \/>\nIt vaguely reminds me of Saint-Tropez.<br \/>\nWe're all Mediterranean anyway.<br \/>\nIf I were on a terrace in Talamone or right in Saint Tropez, I would want to have a long discussion with <strong>Jacques Chirac.<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that our very own guest in a 1976 Asterix album was drawn as an economic advisor to <strong>Julius Caesar<\/strong> Strange, this representation particularly for a French leader.<br \/>\nI'll slip into this anomaly and before a calvados after lunch, I'd ask him what Europe could become.<br \/>\nEveryone thinks of an economic or institutional Europe, perhaps military, but what if we started with a footballing one?<br \/>\nIt would be a real popular find.<br \/>\nMany would say no, they'd cry sacrilege, yet Chirac, authentically Parisian, advised the authentically Roman Julius Caesar.<br \/>\n<strong>Fantasy?<\/strong><br \/>\nFantasy is a gift for visionary politics, perhaps prophetic.<br \/>\n<strong>The politics that is missing today.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt seems that at this historical stage, despite being characterised by a widespread and evident prosperity, everyone is aiming to lower the level of expression.<br \/>\nAs if the two things were linked, but alternatives.<br \/>\nA red herring, in my opinion.<br \/>\n<strong>An almost superstitious alternation.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The ongoing Football World Cup<\/strong> , in my opinion, expresses this decay, from a social discount.<br \/>\nIn 1989, Bologna signed a German centre-forward who was nicknamed 'Klisman's deputy':<br \/>\nHe was never truly anyone's deputy; he didn't go to the \u201990 World Cup with his Germany. With Bologna, he scored six goals in two seasons with over fifty appearances in Serie A.<br \/>\nWell, it springs to mind because it seems to me to be the inspiration for many centre-forwards seen so far at this World Cup.<br \/>\nIt reminds me, for example, of the Canadian who plays in attack for Juventus.<br \/>\nI return to Saint-Tropez and ask for another Calvados, but it's evening, and the final is about to begin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Sumerian writer)<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avete mai provato la dolcezza delle insenature tirreniche nella Toscana meridionale? Ogni mattina sono armoniche bracciate di case e barche che accarezzano l&#8217;elegante blu del tappeto del tavolo da giuoco di Mr Nettuno. \u00c8 un blu elegante e brillante. Mi ricorda vagamente quello di Saint Tropez. Comunque siamo tutti mediterranei. 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