lunes, 21 de julio de 2008

Echarse un Fucho (Picking up Football)

It is the action of playing an informal football match (also known in other countries as fútbol, balonpié, soccer, etc.). The word 'FUCHO' can be replaced by 'CASCARITA', although this word is more the equivalent for "match", so you can use it in other sports too: basketball, american football (we call it tochito when it's informal) and volley.
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"Echarse un fucho" is the easiest and cheapest sport-practice. You only need a ball, because goal-lines may be improvised with visible objects (stones, backpacks, clothes, etc.)... children don't even need a ball: for them, a soda bottle is good enough!!
Football is the most common sport in Mexico because of the TV influence -- we have to accept it. That's why almost all men like playing an informal match in some moments of their life.
When I say "informal" I mean "completely improvised". We don't take the small rules like the Offside (fuera de lugar/juego), the number of players or the player-standings, and sometimes we even forget the fouls... in a 'cascarita' there are no referees!!

This is a pic of some guys echándose un fucho.

In family parties, with the mates, in school, in the park... and of course, in the street! Any place is good for playing fut (a short way to say "fucho" or "football").
There isn't a time-table. It's, as we Mexicans say, "hasta qu'el cuerpo aguante" [til you get tired]. But when a player gets tired, he's usually replaced by another, so an informal match may last the whole day, with final scores of 40 goals or more. If you know about football, you'll see that this is really tiring.

This match was a disaster for our team. We lost with a score of 32-7!! At the end, we were all tired, sweaty and dirty...

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