While reading the book, I really did not understand why the book was called the soccer war. In the last pages read Kapuscinski is till in Latin America. He starts commenting about he beliving in a man named Luis and everything he said. '' In his time he had predicted the fall of Goulart in Brazil, the fall of Bosch in the Dominican Republic....''(pg157) I think this is interesting, because you should not really trust those things but they contributed to his reports. He also starts talking about the two countries playing a soccer game and the one that won had the right to play in the World Cup in Mexico 1970. He helps us understand thata soccer in this times in Latin American countries was just not soccer, it was as important as politics. The two countries are Hounduras and Salvador. When one of the teams gets to the other country, a rivality starts in a really agressive way. '' Eighteen-year-old Amelia Bolanios was sitting in front of the television in El Salvados when the Honduran striker Roberto Cardona scored the winning goal in the final minute. She got up and ran to the desk which contained her father's pistol...then she hot herself''(Pg. 158) I think that is really horrifying killing yourself for a soccer game, and this shows us the importance that is had on peoples ilfes.
He also talks about other games like the Mexico and Peru. ''An embittered Mexican fan shouted in an ironic tone, 'Viva Mexico!' A moment later he was dead''(Pg.160) This is the most redicoulus things that happen in my opinion , but that not only happened in those years, it happens in thwe stadiums a lot. People are really agressive while soccer is involved. It is unbelieveable to live all the things he lived, because eventhough crimes and injustices happen everyday, we do not live them so close. Kapuscinski risks his life all the time. He wanted to send a telex message to Warsaw. He got himself to the post officewith some firemen and then he went out there alone and it was so dark he could not see his hands. That is really dangerous because they were at war because of everything that was happening, but he did everything tro let the information through. After that, he takes risk once and againg, and goes to the border of two countries that where in war also. He talks about the soilders and the way the fight without actually knowing why. In reality a soldier sees no further than his own nose, has his eyes full of sand or sweat, shoots at random and clings to the ground like a mole" (page 180). He was so amazed of evrething that was happening that at the end he said ''let them watch , let them think'' (pG.187)
