Posts Tagged ‘zelaya’

Cheap Seats Daily: Nothing Much About Adu or Zelaya, But U.S. Romps

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' [...]

City Desk’s Futbol Diplomacy Plan Falling Into Place!

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 [...]

Futbol Diplomacy: Bring Zelaya to RFK!

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 [...]