Politics and football are almost identical public phenomena, even if statesmen consider football to be a circus. to distract society or as a vehicle for its propaganda, and football considers its passion to be love without the corruption of all governments.
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The rhetoric of both, the public participation of both, are identical: they serve as a topic of conversation, to make people participate in public affairs without having any actual influence on it.
Their rhetoric is identical: denial of the rival, blind fanaticism, slander and insult as a weapon to annihilate the other in the debate. That is why violent verbal aggression is legitimized, because the fans of a team and the sympathizers of a party need to see themselves reflected in the mirror of their identical opposite in order to exhibit themselves before it, attack it and compete with it; to divide and radicalize between us and them, friends and enemies, allies and traitors, to achieve victory, to justify defeat.
Football and politics have the same social behaviors: the fans are militants, and the supporters, fanatics.
James, the key
Politics is not ‘smeared’ with football to, for example, explain the last 1-1 draw between Colombia and Peru in Lima: The team got stuck in the first half because neither Arias nor Ríos took on the weight in the center and the leaders were left like the country: some stuck on the far right and others well planted on the far left.
Until James came on and changed the game: in the middle and with his passing skills he linked midfielders with forwards and distributed the play to the right and left. To top it off he took the corner which, after catapulting, Lucho Diaz returned goal and tie.
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And Lucho and James, who saved the point – sometimes draws are celebrated, they are better than mourning a defeat – were torn apart on social media by their intimate enemies.as do the propagandist wine merchants of political extremes who insult, defame and blame the governments in power or the opposition for all the evils.
Lucho is the best player we have today in the world elite, and James is the great star of another level that we have. Period. But their professional haters attack, discredit, denigrate and insult them automatically to deny, destroy and delegitimize them as happens in the radical political arena.
Politics and sport. By the way: in the long-awaited Colombian participation in the Paralympic Games – 7 golds, 7 silvers and 14 bronzes – nobody is talking about “state abandonment” today.of the so-called “non-existent sports policy”, which has existed for almost 20 years and which they ignored and denied out of ignorance and demagogy a month ago when some stars failed at the Olympics and two medals were missing…
Gabriel Meluk
Sports editor at EL TIEMPO
@MelukLeCuenta
Football, sport, politics: of course they mix, and much more than you think!
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