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Like father, similar to child 

Football has constantly possessed a vital spot in the Miranda family unit. "We're continually discussing the amusement," said Jose Miranda, a 61-year-old physical training educator, ex-midfielder and previous chief of football at Deportes Concepcion, the last spell happening amid the Chilean club's most magnificent time. Situated close by is his child Mauricio, 36, who additionally played the amusement – as a striker – yet was compelled to resign early in view of harm and now acts as a columnist for the same club. Two lives connected to football and which have followed comparative ways. 

"We've driven fundamentally the same lives," remarked Mauricio, as a component of their talk with FIFA.com, "first as players, then in working at the same club, and now in light of the fact that we've both worked at World Cups."

Pretty much as his dad did at the FIFA World Youth Championship Chile 1987, so Mauricio is doing at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015, arranging the opposition, though possessing an alternate position. 

"I'm the correspondences officer for the Local Organizing Committee here in Concepcion, while my dad likewise worked here, however in the ticketing office," clarified Miranda Jr. 

Leader of the crew 

At the point when talk swings to their capacities on the pitch, there is most likely in respect to who was the better player. "I was a striker and I had some great recreations and some not all that great amusements," said a laughing Mauricio.

"Very few objectives," contributed Jose, with a flash in his eye. "I was a contender, however," answered Mauricio. "That was my principle quality."

The more youthful of the Mirandas had no faltering in perceiving his dad as the family's star demonstration, in any case: "My father was the better player. There's undoubtedly about that. My expert vocation was a considerable measure shorter, while he played at the top level for quite a while, with diverse groups and accomplishing a ton."

Pondering their work with Deportes Concepcion, Jose's just lament is that the college club's radiance days in the mid 1990s, when they rubbed shoulders with South America's finest in the Copa Libertadores, are presently however a memory and that Mauricio is despising the same highs that he once did.

"It was a magnificent ordeal," he reviewed. "The group doesn't should be the place it is right now (in the Chilean second division) and we trust they can discover their way back to the top soon.

"I recollect those days as a fan," said Mauricio. "My sibling and I used to go to the stadium truly early, and on account of my father we had the capacity meet the players and go down to the changing area. Shockingly, times are harder for the club at this time, however I trust they can get once more into the first division and give the fans something to cheer about."

The World Cup encounters appreciated by father and child nearly 28 years separated are likewise distinctive, as Jose clarified: "You can't contrast one World Cup with another. Take a gander at the stadium for a begin. It's the same one, yet it's been totally renovated.

"And after that there's the entire improvement in correspondences. Everything's finished with PCs nowadays and you've additionally got the informal organizations. It's entirely unexpected, however I was welcome to watch the recreations and I need to say that it brought back a considerable measure of recollections and feelings from the World Cup in '87."

Communicating his pride at seeing Mauricio taking after the way he took, Jose said: "It fulfills me extremely to see a child satisfy his fantasies, as he has, in joining in a World Cup. It's an inestimable ordeal."

Talking it over

Voicing his understanding, Mauricio remarked: "On an individual level, the thing I esteem most is the opportunity to join in such a major occasion and, for instance, meet individuals working for other worldwide media outlets, all which helps me with my expert advancement."

Have their parallel ways ever crossed? "Yes," uncovered Mauricio. "We cooperated for a long time sorting out school rivalries. It was great, however we had the odd distinction of sentiment, what with being at home together and at work.

"We generally worked things out, however," clarified Jose with a grin. "We simply think in distinctive ways, there's nothing more to it. He's more advanced, while I'm old fashioned."

With all the hurrying around of a World Cup, father and child have yet to take a seat and share their competition encounters, however they both mean to have that visit soon. "When we get more time, I'm certain we'll speak finally about both World Cups and look at the two," said Miranda Sr.