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Marcelo Bielsa, Argentina's cerebral coach, has spent a great deal of his time lately staring at the ground. This is not the defensive, deferential gesture of a shy man reluctant to look you in the eye. No, this is the intense, searching gaze of a man who expects at any moment to find something valuable?treasure, car keys, enlightenment?two feet in front of his shoes. As his World Cup squad played back-to-back friendly matches against Japanese club sides last Tuesday, Bielsa paced along the sideline, glaring at the carefully manicured grass like some demented botanist...
...Highlander movie, the two men would fight to the death?but dueling wasn't among Bielsa's options. Finally on Saturday, he announced his decision at J-Village, Argentina's sylvan training base in the lush countryside of Fukushima prefecture: Batistuta would start Sunday's campaign-opener against Nigeria. It was a choice he could only have made with a heavy heart, and the knowledge that he had outraged half of his 37 million countrymen...
...fair bet that none of his 31 rivals had to make a judgment call as tough as the one that confronted Bielsa. The question has consumed Argentina for months on end, splitting the soccer-mad nation down the middle. "It's not possible to have a conversation about football and not get into a raging argument about Batistuta versus Crespo," said Guillermo Resnik, 26, an accountant from Buenos Aires who backpacked his way across Asia before arriving in Japan in time for the World Cup. "Half the people, the sentimentals, want Batistuta. The rest of us know Crespo...
...share in Russia's biggest company. I N D I C A T O R S The Cup Of Gold Even economists want a piece of the World Cup action. A new report sees correlation between GDP and FIFA rank (with the notable exceptions of the U.S. and Argentina). And although Japan may lose, its flagging economy should win: from 1954 to 1998, GDP growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact-disc copy protection. Users overrode the high-tech, anti-piracy...
...team had to cope with the death of Sports Minister Ishaya Mark Aku in a plane crash. Despite the likes of Arsenal's Nwankowo Kanu and Chelsea's Celestine Babayaro, the Super Eagles also look poised to crash. Still, no one can chance taking this team lightly: should Argentina choose to play rough when the two meet on June 2, it could well regret it. The stretcher bearers should be at the ready...