Daniel Lagares
08/23/2020 - 17:57
- Clarín.com
- sports
Now we are going to see what football fans are made of, when in addition to quarantine, isolation and fear, abstinence from football begins . The Champions League final was the last thing and there will be no game until mid-September. The Ligue 1 French already started, but no one gives ball. 20 days left blank. No tiki-tiki , no goal, "Look what a donkey!" . Nothing. It will be twenty days without hearing the noise of balls.
On Monday, March 16, the last matches were played in Argentina. On the 20th, Alberto Fernández announced the closed doors. In Lisbon, PSG and Bayern Munich gave the last minutes this Sunday and there was a German consecration. And now?
On September 12, the Premier League and the Spanish League will start. God will tell where Lionel Messi will be in those days. On the 15th, the green flag is scheduled for the Copa Libertadores with five Argentine teams - Boca, River, Racing, Defensa y Justicia and Tigre - playing the third date of the group stage. On Friday 18 the Bundesliga will start and on Saturday 19, the Italian Serie A.
First they took out the visitors, but since we are not visiting visitors, it didn't matter. Later they played behind closed doors, but the TV was left and it didn't matter. You know what good old Brecht thought, but, as Berthold said, it's too late .
You have to make a difference. One thing is the fan and another thing is the footballer. The fan looks at his team and that's it. He suffers and from time to time he enjoys his club. The others are random. The football fan looks at everything. And in an optimistic condescension, let's say that what you like is the game.
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Then it does not matter to him a Federal B game than the London classic. The issue is to see those 22 behind the ball, as Borges said. And the rest is "flour from another side", as Muñoz once missed. "Life is not the same without football," as the song indicates. No. And it also marks, without doing sociology in passing, the degree of alienation of each one. But who is going to be missed, is going to be missed ...
How to fill those empty hours without blunders, goals, memorable saves or ghastly bloopers ? Let's discard television, with panelists drinking mate by Zoom. Let's discard the newspapers, the websites with more spectacular than other things. Let's discard our own football, now that there is permission to go out to the squares. If we cannot see what is not there, is the physicist there to play it, after 150 days locked up? What a fright.
The books remain, the football literature. Is what is in the home library sold out? Did we read everything we had? It will be difficult to go looking for bookstores. The e-book remains . Something is something, which is not the same. The payment platforms remain to see "fobal" stories. Did you see them all? And bué ...
Passion is numbed, the adrenaline of uncertainty about the game quiets down. There is no fixture to see who will be the next enemy. The only current table is the frightening list of infected-dead-recovered. A horror. A daily stab, bullets that sting near friends and family, and prayers that the bug does not enter the house. If we stay home ...
If we run out of football, on top of that, for an eternity.
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