On 2022-02-21, Real Mardin <real_mardin@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> So not to put too fine a point on it, but you lot have all been
> meeting up and not inviting me? Lol

Where were you in 1995? :-)

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On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 7:43:41 PM UTC, Real Mardin wrote:
> On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 4:41:28 PM UTC, jesus...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Em segunda-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2022 às 10:29:15 UTC-3, Lléo escreveu:
> > > Real Mardin escreveu:
> > > > On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 12:41:46 AM UTC, milivella wrote:
> > > > > I'll be in Los Angeles (February 20 to 25) and Vancouver (February 26 to
> > > > > March 4). If any of you will be there then, it would be nice to meet!
> > > > > You can contact me at mili...@gmail.com
> > > > This begs the question: how many documented meetings between rss'ers have there been?
> > > I met Jesus Petry twice in Rio de Janeiro. The first of these meetings is documented here:
> > >
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.soccer/c/GT6Zv3C4O58/m/zhONbu-YdFIJ
> > I've also met Clément (Luiz) in Porto Alegre a little earlier.
> >
> > Tchau!
> > Jesus Petry
> So not to put too fine a point on it, but you lot have all been meeting up and not inviting me? Lol
>
> RM

Nobody invited me either. :-(

Real Mardin:

> On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 12:41:46 AM UTC, milivella wrote:
>> I'll be in Los Angeles (February 20 to 25) and Vancouver (February 26 to
>> March 4). If any of you will be there then, it would be nice to meet!
>> You can contact me at mili...@gmail.com
>
>
> This begs the question: how many documented meetings between rss'ers have there been?

I met:

1. Tom in Catania. We played a match (Vella & Friends vs. Rest of the
World) and watched a match (Catania vs. Milan).

2. Daniele in New York. He refused my table football challenge (no doubt
because he was scared to a great degree).

3. Jackson in New York. We kicked the ball in Central Park.

4. Werner in Salzburg. He showed me where the villa of the Red Bull guy is.

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Futbolmetrix:

> On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:19:30 PM UTC-5, Real Mardin wrote:
>> This begs the question: how many documented meetings between rss'ers have there been?
>
> I think I have met 6 RSSers in real life in my almost 30 years here:
> - Massa and Irineu in the 1990s, when we were all students in the Boston area and would sometimes get together to watch Serie A matches in the North End.
> - milivella in NYC a couple of years ago (with significant others!)
> - Jackson in NYC on that same weekend, but it was just a fleeting hello, we didn't really hang out together

Are you SURE you met Jackson?! Or is this a memory failure---typical
sign of getting SENILE?

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Real Mardin:

> Heartwarming to hear how many rss'er meetings there have been, although most of them seem to be USA based. Even allowing for that there seem to be more meetings than I would have thought.
>
> So how many UEFA based rss'ers are left (currently active)?
>
> I'd wager a guess:

> Maybes:
>
> Millivella

UEFA-based: 100%.
Currently active: you decide.

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milivella

On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 2:06:38 AM UTC-5, milivella wrote:
> Real Mardin:
> > On Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 12:41:46 AM UTC, milivella wrote:
> >> I'll be in Los Angeles (February 20 to 25) and Vancouver (February 26 to
> >> March 4). If any of you will be there then, it would be nice to meet!
> >> You can contact me at mili...@gmail.com
> >
> >
> > This begs the question: how many documented meetings between rss'ers have there been?
> I met:
>
> 1. Tom in Catania. We played a match (Vella & Friends vs. Rest of the
> World) and watched a match (Catania vs. Milan).
>
> 2. Daniele in New York. He refused my table football challenge (no doubt
> because he was scared to a great degree).
>
> 3. Jackson in New York. We kicked the ball in Central Park.
>
> 4. Werner in Salzburg. He showed me where the villa of the Red Bull guy is.

Nothing to do with Salzburg, but definitely an Austrian angle to my anecdote here.

Christian Fuchs and Mrs. Fuchs have owned a condo in upper Manhattan for many years. It turns out that it's in the same building that a lady friend of mine lives in, and that lady friend has become good friends with Mrs. Fuchs. I have asked my friend a few times if she will broker a cocktail between Mr. Fuchs and me, and she keeps declining me on the grounds that Mr. Fuchs was mostly away playing in the EPL for many years so she never really got to know him. I think it's her polite way so saying that she's not really interested in being a middlewoman here. But I will keep trying.