The Coach In Hollywood Movies

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Tim and Gwen Walz with kids Hope and Gus.
"It's the honour of my life to accept the nomination for vice president of the United States." 22 August 2024.

Tim Walz, is a full circle guy who is a leader in more ways than one. Great jubilation in Minnesota in July when Kamala Harris named their governor, her running mate for the 2024 presidential election.

Tim Walz was a high school football coach and that is interesting for people born in the other parts of the world. Firstly, why do Americans call football (dribbling the ball with your feet and heading for the goal post) football? Ha! Ha! Now I know, because I spent some time in the U.S. as a student. To avoid confusion, I no longer call the game played by Lionel Messi  of Argentina, ‘football.’ It’s soccer. I’ll call it football when I’m in Birmingham, U.K.

This brings us back to Tim Walz. He was a football coach and the DNC in Chicago had COACH purple banners. Shout-out to event planners of that convention. People born outside the U.S. are happy that finally, the coach is given his flowers. How? We grew up seeing movies about the football and basketball coach. The coach seemed to be more important than the mayor or pastor. He was always blowing the whistle and was basically, a mean looking guy.  He had spoilt daughters who tried to lord over everybody because their dad was such an important man. We couldn’t understand why, because anybody born in a soccer-loving country knows the top goal-scorers, not the name of the soccer coach.

Not in America. Coaches are a big thing over there. Tim Walz is the icing on the cake, because everybody knows the name of the future Vice President the U.S.A. I guess Hollywood is going to make new movies where the coach goes to Washington to uphold democracy.

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