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Off to Monterrey!

Tomorrow morning I’m driving to Mexico for thanksgiving (no turkey – lots of tacos).
Not only do I get to spend 4 days over there, I also get to go to the stadium to see Monterrey VS Pachuca (quarter final) on Thursday and Gustavo Cerati in concert on Saturday.

Also, it’s almost that time of the year again: the hollidays. Those it mean I get into the whole christmas spirit thing? No. It means I need to stack up on the Nochebuena beer again. It has to last for a year!

Jealous?

FIFA 2004… I have it!

I was so happy to see in the back of the box a picture of Monterrey VS America (Arellano and Cuauhtemoc perhaps?).
The off-the-ball gameplay sounds like a fantastic idea although we’ll see how well I can really control two players using both analog sticks… doesn’t sound easy. And the level of detail is fantastic, Monterrey’s uniform has the logo with two stars, the orange stripes, the Carta Blanca on the back, the Atletica brand… everything!

Now let’s wait for others to get it and it will be online kicking but.

EASports FIFA 2004 includes Monterrey

Few video game related news could make as happy as this one….

November 4 marks the date EA Sports releases FIFA 2004, the new version in a long chain of the excellent soccer video games. Needless to say, since I’ve been playing them on my Sega Genesis (RIP) in the early nineties, I’ve awaited the moment when they would include my team Monterrey (current Champion of the Mexican league after a 17 year drought – but doing miserably this season).

Well, the wait is over. Next week, I’ll be the first in line to buy the new FIFA.

UPDATE: Thanks very much to my big brother Jaco who brought such good news to an otherwise grey day.

Super Sunday

Today is the Super Bowl. It starts in less than an hour. I’m not a big football fan, but it must be noted however that Monterrey beat the Pumas in Ciudad Universitaria 3-2 in the Mexican Soccer League. That makes me happy:).As for the Superbowl, we’ll see how it goes…