Word: veron
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...just finish them off. He is given to "dropping back to start movements from down the middle or on the flanks," Bielsa says. Still, this is an underrated quality, perhaps because the Argentine team is already richly endowed with playmakers?none more creative than the midfield genius Juan Sebastian Veron. Bielsa, many commentators suggest, doesn't need an extra goalmaker; he needs a forward who concentrates on the business of slamming the ball into the back of the net. Ergo, he needs Batistuta...
...banks melting down and the currency as porous as the Faroe Islands' defense, victory on the playing field could be the only joy for Argentines for the next four years. Their hopes rest on stars like Lazio's lethal strike pair of Hernan Crespo and Claudio Lopez. Juan Sebastian Veron is capable of finding them anywhere on the pitch, and behind him is formidable Romanista Walter "the Wall" Samuel. Argentina easily won its qualifying group in South America, but now finds itself in the so-called Group of Death with England, Nigeria and Sweden. As Argentina boasts some of football...
...banter, joke with us, read us e-mails and, if an experiment under way in Hong Kong is any example, do a whole lot more. One2Free, a cellular service run by telecoms firm PCCW, has created a game world populated by four virtual girls: Alice, Angel, Ron and Veron. It's kind of a Tamogotchi for the home-alone-on-a-Friday-night crowd: through the cell phone, you sweet-talk the cybervixens into dates or out of their clothes. Since the service was launched in March, 500,000 text messages have been sent to the girls - but they stop...
...culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning that they couldn't afford another crisis: the E.U. has already spent $1 billion to bail out farmers suffering from the bse-induced plunge in beef consumption. "If [foot-and-mouth] does spread to the Continent," says Commission spokesman Luc Veron, "the money would be gone before we could write a check...