SOCCER. The Venezuelan team fell apart / EFE
Faith is everything that you want to be resolved in your favor without being able to influence it. It is that present when you hope that everything will go well in the operation of a loved one. It’s that yes you want to hear from the person you like when you ask them out for the first time.
Faith is trying to pass that exam for which you did not study and also having the approval of your parents when you want to go out for the first time only with your friends.
Faith is going to sleep in a country that is not yours, waiting for that call in which they tell you that you got the job. Hopefully the xenophobic surge doesn’t hit you.
Faith is expecting to beat Roger Federer in the first round of Wimbledon when you’re a player from qualifying. It is knowing that that night it was your turn to mark Michael Jordan. Fe is the center that Sergi Roberto takes to score the goal of Barcelona’s comeback against PSG.
But if your faith is to wait for your team to win an inconsequential soccer game, then you know – even if you don’t admit it – that that group is lost.
In Venezuela the hashtag is here to stay #ManoTengoFe, become a brother, I have faith. It all started in the recent Copa América in Brazil, where bad news was a common pattern in the Vinotinto environment. Injuries and infections of COVID-19 condemned a selection already depleted by a bad start of the World Cup.
Despite having to juggle to form a healthy squad, Vinotinto reached the last day of the group stage with options to qualify (four out of five passed).
But it finally fell by the wayside.
The message is still shared on the eve of every crash that involves her, almost always with the same result.
Although with a distant performance that took her out of the pit and gradually erased the nickname of Cinderella in Conmebol, Vinotinto is today a small obstacle.
When an activity becomes a habit, then there is no faith. Imagine that Brazil, where more than 90% of its population is believers, shared every two tweets that they have faith in their selection. Impossible. His habit is to win, above all else.
Practice generates routines. Remember that first coffee you made and that you would not serve it even to your worst enemy. Now try the one you drank this morning and compare it. Maybe that first time you had faith not to drown yourself with that rare water, but not now.
This will have to happen with the Vinotinto. Of course, win on your own merits and work, not for other people’s mistakes. Add, add and add. When that happens, more than faith there will be trust.
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