<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d9866427\x26blogName\x3dSCOTWISE\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLUE\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://scotwise.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_US\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://scotwise.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d9048560822994539802', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe", messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, messageHandlers: { 'blogger-ping': function() {} } }); } }); </script>

Saturday, April 09, 2005

A NAME BY ANY OTHER NAME IS NOT SAVED!

Name-change fan 'no DIM-wit'
A COLOMBIAN football fan has won the right to change his name to his favourite club, but only after a tortuous seven-year legal battle.

A ruling handed down today by the country's constitutional court allows the 55-year-old supporter to call himself Deportivo Independiente Medellin Giraldo Zuluaga.

Giraldo is Medellin's No.1 fan - he never misses a game and takes along the club's mascot, his dog, who wears the club's red and blue colours and barks to celebrate a goal.

"I've been waiting for my dream to be realised for seven years. I'm so happy," said Giraldo, who has also decked his house out in Medellin colours.

"Medellin is the team I support with pride in my soul and in my heart," he added. "I've made sacrifices to get to this point. Everyone said I was mad, but finally I won. Now you can call me Deportivo Independiente Medellin or DIM."

Medellin put an end to a 45-year trophy famine in 2002 when lifting the Colombian league title.

Somehow I feel "DIM - wit" suits you better... And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. --Rev 20:15 (ESV)

Link Link

posted by John @ 11:30 AM  

Site Meter