Armando Nogueira, Soccer, and Me (Poor Thing)

Armando said, "I would gladly trade the victory of my team in an important game for a column . . . ," and at that point comes the surprise: he completes his sentence by saying he would trade all that for a column of mine about soccer. [...] when I ask questions, probably very silly questions, being the layperson I am, he responds with a mixture of pious impatience, which later becomes barely controlled patience, and a little tenderness for the mom who, if she knows some other things, needs to depend on her son for those lessons.