Four out of four
.
Best coach, best goalkeeper, best player and
the "best fan" yapa
, were consecrated at the FIFA gala.
Argentina to the stick.
Scaloni, Dibu Martínez, Messi and that group that includes the lucky ones who traveled to Qatar and, above all, the millions and millions (there are so many
that not even INDEC can corroborate
the figure with certainty) who still upload videos of that overflowing passion that they let flow in their family rituals or in camps with friends.
Sublime tribunes: a habit to analyze as a collective psychoanalysis to understand
how we really are
.
The award-winning fans were also those three or four million who, in the reception tribute to the heroes of the Qatari desert,
made the streets of Buenos Aires an incessantly boiling anthill
, brotherly feelings, a unique case in a society in which
they have always been more profitable. the discords
and the crumbs of resentment that have given birth to us as what we are: a country that only
soccer glory can unify
.
And
up to a certain point
.
It was also an acknowledgment to those who even today, more than two months after the feat, do not tire of evoking in family circles the days of happiness that life denied - and will continue to deny - in their daily chores of work
,
study , the search for “that faith that is stubborn”, a benevolent and festive truce in the routine of
breaking the soul every day to make ends meet
.
With the prizes received, all of them raised the Cup again with Messi, so many times frustrated object of desire that finally, as in children's stories, a little prince ("A little boy
of Rosario, Santa Fe..."
, as he called it in
consecrating praise
the British journalist Peter Drury) broke the curse and took us by the hand to that
immortal galaxy of champion soccer fans
.
Lionel Messi, The Best for FIFA and the world.
AP Photo/Michel Euler
However, the best symbolism from The Best to the consecrated ones of 2022 may have to be traced in
dimensions that are not only soccer
.
With Messi as their banner, the world champions, awarded or not, knew how
to dribble the temptations of power
, the calls and pressures to get that
ephemeral photo that never changed the result of any historical process
or any political conjuncture.
The elites of the last decades (governing or on the plain) seem more concerned with
sneaking into some list
or holding on to some stipend from politics than understanding and honoring the passion of popular causes, such as those experienced on the days of the World Cup.
Messi, Scaloni and Dibu, on the other hand, knew how to interpret the explosion of happiness in the stadiums and in the country.
They elegantly dribbled
at the time the "seduction operation" to mix in the deck with the cards of politics.
And
they did not show rage
at the FIFA ceremony either, although they had a microphone in hand and screens at their disposal, to shout to the world the reality of a country with negative indices in the social standards that they want to seek: education, health, employment, salary, retirement , inflation.
Perhaps because
they know that their sporting merits helped happiness to go
where it had to go and not where the leaders with crouching ambitions who had to resign themselves to shouting the goals at home, like common mortals, were looking for it.
In that sense, Messi's gang
forced them to watch the party
with
“la ñata against the glass”
.
Two more looks at the soccer gala in Paris.
Carlos Pascual,
Tula, historical Peronist hype
, surely
he has not been the best identity ambassador
of the genuine soccer fan.
The mere fact of having been in the World Cups since 1974 and having reached the age of 82 with various ailments may not warrant the symbolism, although it fits perfectly with the FIFA
marketing show off
and the canons of media appeal.
He went to encourage the National Team in the last thirteen World Cups, it is true.
It is not clear who financed those expeditions.
Something can be conjectured: he was with all the triumphant Peronisms and contributed his folklore and his feeling to the festive aid of all.
He is not the best exponent of the "racial fan", but neither, by far, is he the worst that Argentine politics offers today to exhibit to the world.
Surely they used him more
than he used all the Peronist leaders since the return of democracy.
Finally, the
tribute to Pelé
, officially recognized as a giant of the temples of football.
indisputable
.
He died a few days after the World Cup ended, as if he had wanted to leave but not before pointing out and
congratulating his Argentine successor
, as one of his daughters testified.
As Maradona had already done at the time, whom a sick look from politics had wanted to oppose to the virtues of Messi.
As a social behavior,
Kirchnerism, the intellectual author of that historical blunder
, is more like Diego's outbursts than Lionel's low profile.
Something set them apart.
Maradona agreed to get on the bandwagon of political power.
Messi did not let him enter the welcome microphone.
Something brought them together, soccer greatness has them on the same team.
And he put them on the podium together with Pelé.
With a difference, also in favor of Messi.
In his consecratory speech, as a good Rosario, Leo honored the speech that swallows the "ese" without pause.
The writer Hernán Casciari defined this idiom as Messi's "
cultural rebellion
" that accompanied Argentine immigrants in Spain, who were fleeing the 2001 outbreak. Leo never adhered to Hispanic sayings.
Pelé closed his campaign in the New York Cosmos in 1977, when the United States was just promoting “soccer” and took it to “O Rei”, as the great diffuser.
Pelé would end his career with a brief message, closed with a “love, love, love”.
He preferred to omit how to say "love" in Portuguese, the official language of his Brazilian land.
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