Horrible foreign policy news: Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya ignored the brilliant Futbol Diplomacy™ stategy laid out in this very space that would have gotten him back into his homeland. As a result, he is still locked out by his Honduran deposers, and the national team of his old nation lost to the good ol' USA, 2-0, at RFK.

Zelaya was right here in D.C. yesterday morning, trying to get the U.S. State Department to help him get his old job back. But, contrary to our brilliant Futbol Diplomacy™ stategy, he didn't stick around for the big game. Instead, he spent the evening away from the RFK grandstands, where he could have rooted on the Hondurans and sucked up to the soccer-crazy folks back home.

As his boys were losing to ours, Zelaya was on a plane headed for Costa Rica, where he'll be negotiating with the folks who put him out of work, but using traditional diplomatic means.

BORRRRRRRRING!

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Turns out Manuel Zelaya WILL be in DC tomorrow. That's when the Honduras national team, which Zelaya used to control before his military gave him a red card and booted him out of the country, will face the US squad in a CONCACAF Gold Cup game at RFK.

Zelaya flew out of here on Sunday, headed for the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. But the folks who deposed him blocked the runways at the airport there. So Zelaya had to reroute to neighboring Nicaragua.

Now, AP is reporting that Zelaya is coming back to DC to meet with Hillary Clinton, to try to get the U.S. to put more pressure on his deposers to let him back in his home country.

I'm no Condoleezza Rice, but, as proposed in this very space last week, I'd advise Hillary to advise Zelaya to get his butt into a good seat opposite the TV cameras at RFK tomorrow night, to show the folks down south that El Presidente is backing the boys on enemy turf as they face Los Yanquies. (Sure, I learned whatever Spanish I know from listening to Los Lobos, so I have no idea if anybody down there calls Zelaya "El Presidente" or us "Los Yanquies." But tell me it doesn't sound right!)

Then after the game, Zelaya can board the team plane and head back to Honduras. Nobody's gonna block that runway!

Brilliant! I mean, um, fantastico!

A source at the Sports and Entertainment Commission tells me that there's not any hint that next week's Gold Cup soccer match between the beautiful losers of the USA national team and the Honduran national team will be affected by what's gone on. It's on.

I've read there's been a coup down south.

Apparently newly ex-President Manuel Zelaya, who was just thrown out of the country by his military, can't go home. Coup leaders say that if he shows up in the capital city of Tegucigalpa he'll be arrested.

The U.S. is in Zelaya's corner in this one. So why not turn this game into something huge? Let the State Department invite the deposed guy to our Nation's Capital to watch his old soccer team play our boys. If Zelaya sucks up to the futbol fans back home, and the Hondurans manage to escape with a win, he could fly back with the team and take his job back.

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