against the heroes

It was almost the end of the match and the Arsenal he suffered martyrdom in his own stadium. He played with one player less due to an expulsion and the draw that eased the scoreboard was a classic ‘yes, but no’. The value of the point depended on the nuance of each. The result has distanced the local team from higher aspirations, but losing is always worse, what can I tell you, we are already bordering on insulting the obvious here again. The fact is that it was almost the end of the game and Arsenal managed with great difficulty to first get the ball to the opposite field and scrape it out with pain and with his tongue, then a very valuable corner in favor .

The stands stirred in response: fists in the air, guttural noises and hearty applause. The cameras focused on the fans who were overwhelmed with anxiety, restlessness and anticipation, in a plan ‘now the goal is coming’, while a soccer player approached the corner with the ball. Between the shouts, the smiles and the nervous leaps, I observed an older man, right in the middle of the action. That man caught my attention by drawing the ultimate maneuver of good sense. That man culminated in the celebration of the required angle with an unequivocal gesture of calmness to the player, saying he should calm down, please, do not be in a hurry, that he should not get too high either, not to go through the naive not to be confused. euphoria of the children who surrounded him, that the wisdom of life was in the experience he represented and that yes, the corner was celebrated, for that is how football folklore prescribes it, but he should not be frightened at all. That man taught him a lesson, not to believe all those colorful actions, that the tie simply accepts reality, nothing more, and without a doubt the most solid option.

a just person

That he did not pay attention to the barbaric crowd, to that primitive youthful enthusiasm, to the risk of excessive ambition. Something like that was trying to tell that guy to his player. I thought some kind of vital moral was emerging from the scene. I also thought how and when I moved away from those who dream of an unlikely but greedy winning goal on the verge of discount, and without any remorse approach the attitude of that older man who fears losing at the last minute what he already has almost have, whether it is much or little, after so much sweating. I was amused by that guy, enough to remember him when Arsenal conceded a deadly goal two or three minutes after that corner and lost. The outcome emphasized the self-confidence that inspired the gentleman’s cautious attitude towards me. A just and decent person. I will let you as a manager manage my savings.

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It may be inevitable, but in football we overestimate passion. The epic, the daring, the grandiose. We do not understand that much of this merit would be unnecessary to limit the error. We demand heroic deeds wholesale, and in football it does not matter a little, because it is still almost a fiction, but we absorb it all and transfer it to our routine. What should be normal becomes an exception. I hate cups with victorious messages. I hate the ‘no surrender’ because sometimes it’s right to give up. We do not need heroes. Not to see or be them. We need to make it easier than that.

I do not know anyone who is not tired. It would be convenient to draw a tie, I think. At least until my team wins a game with no logic on the last play, and then I go back to believing in nothing.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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