Happiness is…
Hard work paying off.
Celebrating with your best friends.
Furthering the future of your sport for the next generation.
A bronze medal.
Source: Marco Oneto, Chilean team captain aka the guy on the left
Congratulations to Rodolfo and the entire 2011 Pan American bronze medal-winning Chilean handball team!
Felicitaciones! Great to hear the wonderful news, thanks, Gringuita.
Thanks, Terry!
How cool! Congratulations to Rodolfo and his teammates!
I’m excited to see my husband tomorrow, but really I just want to see the medal in person. I think it’s very cool
Congrats to Rodolfo and co.! That’s really impressive!
I agree – they’ve worked so hard, and they deserve their big win!
So so so cool! Gosh, the boys on the handball team are re lindo!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, they’re quite attractive, it’s true. Plus they’re of course all tall and athletic!
Yaaay!!!! How exciting – they look happy =) Congrats!!!!!
Thanks! I’ve loved seeing all the pictures of after the game and the medal ceremony – pure joy.
Congratulations to Rodolfo and his team! I also saw a video of them on terra.cl last night… it was called “asi se celebra” or something like that. When I saw it, I told my boyfriend “I know his wife! Or at least I´ve emailed her before!” Hehehe
Oh gosh, that video is so amazing. They didn’t all know it was going on the internet though, hence some of the nudity. I was laughing at Rodolfo not having pants on, but then I saw he wasn’t the least dressed and decided I was actually lucky it wasn’t worse.
Huge congratulations!! I’m so happy for Rodolfo! Marco Oneto and company are smokin hot
I’m getting the impression I should start an official team fan club – clearly they have lots of online admirers!
YAY! I am so so SO happy. This is why I love national sports, because victories at things like Olympics, and World Cups and PanAmerican games feel like victories for the whole country rather than just one select group of fans. And the fact that Rodolfo is your husband and you’ve kept me up to date on how hard he and the team is working just makes it even more exciting!
It’s been really fun feeling like people at work or neighbors or other people who barely even know Rodolfo were really rooting for him and the team – I agree, the magic of these massive events. I hope this will inspire some more Chileans to try out a sport that isn’t soccer for a change!
I have no idea what handball is but congratulations!
Haha, no one in the US knows what it is either. Canada has a team, but they’re not great – they came 5th out of 8 teams though, so they’re not awful either!