This was such a weird weekend. On my way to the park I saw the daughter of our neighbor against the door wall, listening as her parents fought. She was holding on to her stuffed teddy bear and rested her head on it. Due to heavy rain the area was flooded and there were fish swimming everywhere. At the park an older couple sat on a park bench, watching the neighbor’s door float by them. The older couple had lost everything. Their flooded neighborhood has been deemed a disaster. The home they believed they would die in together no longer existed. Earlier they had seen most of their clothes drift by. They kissed as the door reached them. On my way back a neighbor invited me inside for a drink. In the kitchen, she put some powder in a blender. She unscrewed the cap of a liquor bottle and poured it in the mixture and took a drink. Then the man came home from work. He took off his jacket and tie and unbuttoned his shirt, Underneath he was wearing a black bodysuit. It seemed like he feared to tell people his secret. His family would have disowned him and he could lose his job if any of his colleagues found out.
I saw him after the 1998 World Cup where he had called a controversial penalty kick against Brazil for Norway. This was a friendly at Foxboro on September 12, 1998 between the US and Mexico's women's team that the US won 9-0 although he wasn't the ref but rather was there for some kind of award. I shouted out to him as he walked by "اسی چاکریم!" but he either didn't hear me or chose not to respond. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/...-builder-award Esfandiar "Esse" Baharmast, a former referee, player, coach and current instructor who has been involved in more than a dozen World Cup tournaments and Olympic Games, has been named the 2020 winner of U.S. Soccer's prestigious Werner Fricker Builder Award. The Iranian who officiated the first MLS match and first MLS Cup, and won the inaugural MLS Referee of the Year award in 1997, is the second referee to receive U.S. Soccer's highest honor after Gerhard Mengel in 2005. The Wern...
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