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Six Degrees: Soros to Maradona
It’s time for “Six Degrees” — our weekly challenge for Connect the World viewers and Web users. [cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SPORT/football/10/07/football.argentina.maradona.worldcup/art.maradona.jpg caption="Maradona's Argentina side have a had a tough campaign."]
Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.
The week we’ve chosen billionaire investor, philanthropist and political activist George Soros – who has announced plans to invest up to $1 billion in clean energy technologies to combat climate change – and Diego Maradona, whose Argentina squad finally qualified for the World Cup finals Wednesday after a difficult campaign.
You need to come up with five other people between those two for a total of six links.
Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we’ll announce the winner on Friday’s show.
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MARADONA scored two goals against england in 1986 world cup and on the same game GARY LINEKER scored the only goal for engalnd but won the tournament's top scorer who is married to super model DANIELLE LINEKER who cooked during her participation in Hell's Kitchen to PAULINE PRESCOTT who is married to British Politician JOHN PRESCOT who defeated NORMAN LAMONT in the 1970 general elections for Hull East who in 1992 was forced to allow sterling to 'float' making GEORGE SOROS a fortune.
1- obama
2- lula da silva
3- manuel zelaya
4-hugo chaves
5-fidel castro
Carlos Menem
1) Maradona played a soccer match with argentinean former president Carlos Menem (in 1989).
2) Carlos Menem launched Daniel Scioli political career ( in the House of Representatives).
3) Daniel Scioli was Nestor Kirchner's vice president (2003-2007)
4) President Kirchner's Federal Planification Minister was Julio de Vido (2003-2007).
5) Johnathan Soros had a meeting on October 16 with Julio de Vido about the goup investments in Argentina (Bioethanol and farms)
6) Jonathan Soros is George Soros son and the President and Deputy Chairman of Soros Fund Management .
MARADONA made an important goal with the help of GODS finger. GOD has his finger in everything going on at EARTH. EARTH is supporting all LIVE here. LIVE went into a SPERM. That sperm travelled into an EGG of a WOMAN, which was the wife of a Mr. Soros. That WOMAN gave birth to little SOROS who became a billionaire, investing in green energy to pay back mother Earth for her gift.
parecera una estupidez pero no se me ocurre ninguna conexion, entre estas dos personas. gracias.
Mr. Soros reportedly had intentions to buy the football club AS Roma. AS Roma is in Serie A in Italy. Maradona played in Napoli in the Serie A.
Nicolas rocks!!!!!
Dios quiera que estos dos esten bien desconectados...imaginen el desastre si Maradona pudiera ejercer influencia sobre Soros!!
1. Obama
2. John Travolta
3. Salva Kiir (President of the Government of Southern Sudan)
4. Jon Huntsman (U.S. Ambassador to China)
5. Nelson Mandela
– Diego Maradona used to be a Carlos Menen (Argentina's former president) follower and admirer.
– During the Menem's Goverment George Soros opened several shopping malls in Buenos Aires that became one of the symbols of the 90's.
So.. Maradona > Menem > Soros
In 2004, Mr. SOROS said that removing President GEORGE W. BUSH from office was one of his main priorities, he donated significant funds to various groups dedicated to defeating the president.
In that year the former US. President delivered a eulogy to RONALD REAGAN at his memorial ceremony in November 2004.
Reagan administration declared US support for Britain and economic sanctions against Argentina in 1982. At the time MARGARET TATCHER was Britain Prime Minister.
The "Iron Lady" was elected in 1979 and resigned in 1990 communicating that decision to QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
The Queen has 4 children and her successor to the throne is PRINCE CHARLES, MARADONA says that we will never shake ends with Charles.
1- George Soros is/was partner of Eduardo Elsztain in several real state companies in Argentina.
2- As everyone who has accumulated so much wealth during the 90's Elsztain met several times former president Menem.
3- Diego Maradona was considered a close friend by president Menem and visited regularly the president's residency.
Voila!
George Sorros has avoided "LIQUIDATION" numerous times in "CURRENCY SPECULATION. Diego Maradona has returned from the dead , both physically as well as comercially numerous times.Argentina qualifying for 2010 "World cup Finals" is as spectacular as his infamous "HAND OF GOD GOAL" against England. George Sorros surviving "Economic apocalypse 2008/09" is as miraculous as his dynamic rise as the World's greatest "Currency speculator".
GEORGE SOROS (b. 1930, Budapest, Hungary) is the most famous of the approximately1000 native speakers of Esperanto in the world.
WILLIAM SHATNER (b. 1931, Montreal, Canada) learned Esperanto to star in the 1965 cult horror film "Incubus" filmed entirely with Esperanto dialogue.
SYLVESTER STALLONE (b. 1946, NYC) shares the distinction with Shatner of having won Razzies for both worst actor & director in the same film – Sly for both Rambo II & Rocky IV in 1985 & Shatner for Star Drek V in 1989.
PELE (b. 1940, Tres Coracoes, Brazil) starred with Stallone in the 1981 film "Escape to Victory" (filmed in Budapest btw). Pele scored a famous bicycle kick goal & Sly saved a penalty kick for the Allied POW team against the Nazis.
BILL CLINTON (b, 1946, Hope, Arkansas) was photographed kicking a soccer ball with Pele during a 1997 visit to Rio, when Pele was serving as Brazil's extraordinary Minister of Sport.
EVO MORALES (b. 1959, Orinoca, Bolivia) indigenous President of Bolivia, met with Bill Clinton during UN summit in 2006.
DIEGO MARADONA (b. 1960, Buenos Aires, Argentina) played in a charity friendly football match (Argentina vs Bolivia) against Evo Morales, an avid player and fan, in 2008 in La Paz to protest FIFA's ban on matches in over 2750 meters above sea level. Morales scored one goal, Maradona three, and they sent the signed ball to Fidel Castro.
P.S. The world is way more connected than six degrees. The challenge is to stretch it out from an easy 3-4 to 6...
P.P.S. I think extra points should be awarded for NOT using reporters/interviewers/talk show hosts/etc or Scientologists.
1. Maradona – Hugo Chavez
The Argentine has appeared on Chavez's, denouncing George W. Bush and calling himself a "Chavizta" in 2007.
2. Hugo Chavez – Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos "the Jackal"
Carlos "the Jackal" is known to have sporadic correspondence with Chavez. The Venezuelan President has referred to him
as "a distinguished compatriot" and a "good friend."
3. Carlos "the Jackal" – Ernest Gellner
Prof. Gellner taught at LSE Sociology Department while "the Jackal" was taking classes there.
4. Ernest Gellner – George Soros
Gellner became chair of CEU's Centre for the Study of Nationalism, a programme funded by Soros.
George Sorros (the antechrist as described by Heather Cottin, British journalist) sponsored–moveon.org– for desinformation and diversion as he was working with the Bush administration thru the N.E.D. (national endowment for destruction of democracy) and financed and organized contest and opposition movements in Ukraine, Georgia, Russia and Yugoslavia to prepare war and/or the installation of USA puppet leaders in these countries, succeeded in all except Russsia which ousted him out of the country