What if for a moment it were in our hands, in everyone's hands, to become professional football players? Let's imagine a society in which there are no innate abilities and we do not know luck. Everyone starting from the same starting point and each one choosing his or her more or less achievable goal. A …
What is the limit or the boundary where we stop seeing the footballer as a superhero and start considering him as an ordinary person? At the risk of being repetitive, please let's stop idealizing footballers. Let's stop praising them for the simple fact of entertaining us and end their label of untouchables. Differential treatment only …
We are so immersed in the inconsequentiality of our routines that they no longer have any meaning or reason. Gone are the whys, whens and wheres. And the curious, at the risk of being persecuted, are in danger of extinction. My goal today is to show that the important thing is to give meaning to …
How difficult it is to be rich. A truth as simple as it is materialistic. A truth that hides two dark realities: it is as complex to get to the top as it is to stay there. In this article I would like to exemplify both realities by giving them a name and surname: Serge …
Last Saturday Manchester dawned sunny, at least half of the city. No, the news is not the weather. In fact, I don't know whether it was the sun or the clouds that accompanied the busy English city on an entertaining morning of football. The war to defend the city's name was implicit. However, the outcome …
After the irruption of new and multiple competing options to football within the entertainment industry, I consider it attractive to bring up an unusual fact to date in the history of our beloved sport: the extinction of close scores and subsequent celebrations. Despite being somewhat related, a closed match is not the same as watching …
As children we are told that money does not bring happiness, but we are encouraged to associate it as a synonym of success in life. As if this were not a remedy for all ills but an alternative. Even if we resign ourselves to the fact that our sport is extraordinarily long-lived and traditional, the …
A new day is leaving and with it the agony of football fans who breathe a sigh of relief with the start of a new competition. It is not just any tournament since, beyond its international caliber, it will be the first to be played entirely with fans in the stands, an irreplaceable element for …
As if it were a fight, it has always been easier to criticize the loser than to surrender to the winner. The human being, insecure by nature and envious, is reluctant to praise the victories of others. Last night the emotion and the desire for the sky played a dirty trick on the sky-blue team. …
Agents. Representatives. Intermediaries. Several names define a profession that is as admired as it is gloomy. A priori, their objective is clear and lies in looking after the interests of those they represent. However, on countless occasions, these figures that over the last few seasons have acquired a totally undeserved power prioritize their own interests. …
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