Word: copa
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...Martin has plenty of both. His performance of the soccer anthem La Copa de la Vida at the 1998 World Cup confirmed his superstar status internationally; his pelvic-swiveling rendition of the song at the Grammys earlier this year proved a breakthrough as well. He had done the impossible: he had sung about soccer in Spanish and got Americans to care. What could be harder? A French-language ode to cricket? At the Grammys, Beck stood and clapped. Madonna signed on for a duet. Martin's stateside career was launched. Several publishers, including HarperCollins and St. Martin's, are already...
...funny thing happened last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. After Ricky Martin's electrifying rendition of La Copa de la Vida performed the musical equivalent of CPR on a listless Grammy Awards telecast in Los Angeles, fans descended on Salt Lake's record stores and picked them clean of the Latin singer's albums. Runs on his albums were reported in L.A. and Miami too, but none was more surprising than the one in Salt Lake, a town better known for its allegiance to the Osmond Brothers than its enthusiasm for Latin pop. Grammy host Rosie O'Donnell summed...
...TELEVISION Copa America, ESPN2, 3 p.m. Yankees at Padres...
Then came Copa America. The most astounding victory for the U.S. was its 3-0 thrashing of Argentina in Paysandu, a mere walk across the bridge from Colon, Argentina. Midfielder Frank Klopas, defender Alexi Lalas and attacker Eric Wynalda each scored as goaltender Kasey Keller turned away 21 shots. The Argentines, who have won more Copas than any other country, had elected to play several reserves in order to rest their frontline starters. But still--3-0 to a dead chicken? In the quarterfinals, the U.S. and Mexico fought to a 0-0 tie in regulation, sending the game into...
Recognition in the U.S. may be even harder to achieve than worldwide respectability. Plans for an American professional league next year still seem like a pipe dream, and players like Lalas and John Harkes and Cobi Jones have far more name recognition outside the 50 states than inside. The Copa America games were telecast to fans in the U.S. only on pay-per-view, and then only on Prime Deportiva, the Spanish-language cable service. "We've spent our entire lives trying to promote the game," says Wynalda, "but nobody pays attention. Until America accepts us as a viable team...