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Audio PlayerAnd Eusebio scores a beautiful goal for Benfica. A beautiful goal from Eusebio.
Catenaccio. Catenaccio. Break the catenaccio in the Stadium of Light.
All the beauty. You’re too late. The price paid. All the beauty. You’re too late.
1942. HMS Alouette sailing south, for the Straits of Gibraltar, then Malta. With his sailor son. But seven miles off the coast of Sesimbra, within sight of the night lights of Lisbon, the boat sank, and my uncle with it.
Does the sea turn over in its belly the memory of the moment it takes men from the land? Does the sea stretch out its sea arm to take a life by the limb, to stop its performance, to stop its engagement with suffering?
So – Kapitan Popp fires a torpedo from the front of his submarine. He circles around the stricken Alouette, and 29 minutes later, he delivers the coup de grace from his ‘hin end.