In 1975 John Huston led one of the most memorable movies in film history, The Man Who Would Be King ( The Man Who Would Be King ). Sean Connery and Michael Caine interprentan to Dravot Danny and Peachy Carnehan , two adventurers, former soldiers of the British army, traveling to India in 1880 and survive by smuggling weapons and other goods. His career as a savvy criminals change when they decide to direct its course towards the remote kingdom of Kafiristan , after crossing the Himalayas so agonizing, where Connery will be high to the category of God.
Under-21 team after winning against players combined Palestinians in Bethlehem.
Adventure Under-21 team of Students began less than a year traveling to Palestine , to open there a basketball pavilion in the city of Hebron . Since then he has had several routes, roads, and collective constructions. Next Sunday at 13h in Tres Cantos may be the end of the line in the series we're playing playoff quarterfinal lost yesterday's first game at home (47-57 ) can also be the victory that gives us back the possibility of resolving the tie in a new party in Magariños .
Anyway, yesterday in the Ramiro lost because they were all fine in the shot. We returned to the dismal percentage from the free throw line ( 8 / 31 ), and failed baskets in good positions. No objection, beyond some details, the style of play, rotations, the defense , the urge ...
If we fall off the bridge to be like Danny Dravot , singing Minstrel Boy to say that about "know how to fight to the end" But fortunately we never thought gods. difficult challenges are worth living .
PD1: "The most beautiful adventure film of all time", Maruja Torres, El País .
In film there are two versions of the film The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 , one of 1974 and one of 2009 . Both have the same argument, the hijacking of a New York subway train by a gang that threatens to kill the passengers. As often happens in these cases, the remake was not the original height, as well as having the first with actors like Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo and which improved to Denzel Washington and, especially, John Travolta . Few films reflect the chaos that can turn an ordinary day in a big city like New York .
Pelham Parkway is in the eastern Bronx and, like the movie, there are many differences between the reality of the '70s and today. Only the metro keeps the same look of yesteryear, but the flood of graffiti of other times. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York , and is populated by more than a million people, where different communities live. It said that the Bronx born Hip Hop, and its cemetery are buried, among others, distinguished as Duke Ellington or Miles Davis .
Lehman College is a university located in the Bronx near the end of the line 4 passes in his tour of one of the great icons of the city and the area, baseball Yankee Stadium. The Latin influence around Lehman College is notable, and according to coach Wolfgang Lucena "70% of its students are Hispanic."
Coach at Lehman College Lucena
Wolfgang Lucena is a Venezuelan coach has 17 years in the U.S.. He won the NBA Championship men's basketball in 2004 the conference City University of New York , and 2008 champion Volleyball women of the same conference ( Bronx Community College). Lucena Coach Award holder is also Ship Salvestrini for their valuable assistance to the Athletic Department Lehman College, also received the award U.S. Unsung Heroes of the Hispanic community in New York , granted by companies NBC, McDonald's and Telemundo 47 chain. Lucena
helps students in obtaining athletic scholarships. "There are many scholarship opportunities here in the U.S., regardless of source. At the academic level if you are a great student Becan you, even if you're a good athlete, because universities need great athletes to stay competitive, because here the university level is marked by academic and athletic skills. If you are a good athlete and great student is very good for the institutions because you have an additional scholarship, "but added," this system has flaws, and the NCAA much research the origin of international athletes, because they have been professionals can not joining the NCAA . In the U.S. is careful to education and sport be of the same hand, but that does not happen in other countries. "
Lehman College has impressive facility, with a university in a mid-level sports structures in the center are light years ahead of any team ACB, and have all kinds of envelopes.
"After the departure of LeBron James, the NBA and NCAA decided to establish rules of coexistence. They realized that no one can step on other business. He has recovered the level of college basketball. There are 3000 universities in the NCAA in distitos divisions, and all of them are the best resources to train an athlete. That is unlike any other country. So I think today the formation of many players from countries like Venezuela or Colombia could be the NCAA to have a good training as well as students, and then go back to their countries of origin, to play as professionals. "
New York Gauchos is a basketball school located in the Bronx, one of the most famous of the city. Opened in 1967, is a training center for boys and girls from 5 to 18 years. The objective of the Gauchos "is to encourage children to stay in school, providing the incentive of competition basketball, and provide each student the opportunity to do something with his life, "explains on its website.
"The strongest argument we can do for continued success and growth of the basketball program New York Gauchos is that this is not an idea, a theory or an experiment. It is simply a program that works. It is a program to make a difference, every day, every hour, to help thousands of young people into college and have a better quality of life . The need can not be ignored and we do not. We strive to grow our program every year, and we hope that our success is a model for future programs around the country, "says Rocky Bucan, the General Manager the project.
De the Gauchos went Kemba Walker and NBA players John Salley as , Kenny Anderson, Mark Jackson , Chris Mullin, Pearl Washington , J amal Mashburn, Rod Strickland , Felipe Lopez or Stephon Marbury . But there is also recognition for those who were members of the school, and are now teachers, architects, carpenters or cooks.
Unlike the film, the current version of the Bronx much improved, it's not like in the '70s, where poverty heroin and destroyed a cornered by a marginalized community in much the product of racial inequalities. Today the Bronx builds on projects based on the recognition of the different communities that live beyond the difficult situations that are still living in a precarious daily. In The Bronx Times , the newspaper of the district, four pages are dedicated to the basketball area. Although, in those days, the Knicks play the playoff the pride of the Bronx is in these boys and girls who turn their energies into sports, and playgrounds are full of kids in his spare time dreaming of heaven.
Under-21 team after winning against players combined Palestinians in Bethlehem. 
