Wind and ringing: World football is at its best, and penalties are handed out in Israel
This is the most beautiful time of the year.
All over the world, sports fans enjoy every minute and go from summary to summary, it is a pity that only in Israel are the headlines about penalties and fines, radii and protests.
How much can you love a game that is flooded with negative energies?
Paz Hasdai
07/05/2022
Saturday, 07 May 2022, 09:00
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Summary: Liverpool - Manchester United 0: 4 (Sport 1)
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Once you start talking about the "spirit of the club", you can be satisfied.
Once you feel there is something here that is beyond football, the whole story takes on a different garnet.
Real Madrid, a multi-billion dollar luxury team, manages to win a football game - and the viewer feels it's not just a victory.
That there was something else here.
Some wind.
Special energy.
demons.
It's not just Rodrigo who pushes close or strikes with perfect timing.
Not just expatriates, mistakes in defense, standard things of players and ball.
Even the most knowledgeable football fan, the one who is well aware of matters of tactics, formations and professional preparations, recognizes that there was something here that is difficult to explain in dry data.
A sequence of events makes him forget about everything and believe that things have happened that are far beyond material and tangible.
"The Spirit of the Club."
How dare older and rational people still use this vague and clichéd term?
Real Madrid left us no choice.
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A group of billions wins a football game, and the world is amazed.
Real (Photo: Reuters)
2
On the eve of Independence Day, the commotion is all around you.
Sounds of beeps and bass, movement in the stairwell, neighbors getting ready to leave, parties on all sides.
And only you, buried in the house, glued to the screen, do not give up, know that something special is about to happen here.
89 minutes, City dominate the game, Real looks helpless, but the spectator is not impressed.
Do not turn off, wait.
He lives with the feeling that anything else can happen.
So many years with this game have made you realize that you should wait for the end, for the final whistle, before you turn off the screen, eulogize this team, this game.
Then a goal and immediately another goal, there is an extension.
The party continues on the roof of a nearby building.
Is anyone of those celebrating around as excited and enthusiastic right now as I am?
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One of the highlights of the week, and who cares that it ends in a loss.
Villarreal (Photo: Reuters)
3
Why we love football: Because of Villarreal.
Because it hosts Liverpool 2-0 behind, and believes it has a chance of a turnaround.
A team in seventh place in Spain, below Sociedad and Betis, feels they are about to beat one of the best teams in the world.
It ignores budget differences and level gaps.
She hosts the great Liverpool in her small home "The Madrigal", in the heart of a residential neighborhood, in a city of 50,000 people, and storms, with pride and courage.
Knowing that with all due respect to history, the balance of power, the "spirit of the club" - there are now 22 players in a bubble, in a closed arena, where anything is possible.
The bottom line, the end result, is less significant.
It does not matter that in the end Liverpool turned and won.
This half, this 0-2, the brief moments in which Villarreal beat Liverpool and all of us, were all worth it.
And at the end of a loss, the team is eliminated, the players stand for long minutes and thank the crowd, and the crowd cheers.
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Industries where the game itself is also interesting.
American Basketball (Photo: GettyImages, Justin Ford)
4
This is truly the most beautiful time of the year.
The NBA playoffs are energetic and fine, the lucky ones watch the action live, the rest get up in the morning for delightful minutes of dramas and highlights.
European leagues ahead of a decision, Liverpool and Manchester City are battling a brutal battle, and suddenly it seems that the battle for the best footballer in the world is at all between Bernardo Silva and Luis Diaz.
In Italy a fickle championship battle.
Tennis, Euroleague, snooker, endless summaries and quality sports moments.
There is only one industry in the world where important things happen off the field.
Only one branch in which the game itself, the exiles, the moves - are a marginal matter, negligible events that are forgotten.
Only one branch whose headlines pertain to tribunal, punishments, filth and accusations.
The Israeli Football League, one of a kind.
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Haifa fans (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
5
It seems that every morning of the week some sort of judgment report is published, followed immediately by a court hearing.
Every minute some sort of punishment is published, a rejected appeal, a request for further hearing.
And the fan has long had a hard time following, does not know what he is being punished for, what offense it is, what game, just feels the bad energies.
Whole days where the headlines in the sports sections are about the cruel, arbitrary and vicious punishments, as if someone is trying to hurt him, keep him out of the game, shut him off the podium, send him 50 miles from home, as far as possible, damn it.
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In the fan's head, everyone's dumb.
disconnected.
Towering.
Do not understand anything.
He imagines the judges as a bunch of boks in suits, faceless people who roll out their name at the end of the hearing to make sure his spelling is correct.
Most of the time he is angry, disgusted, resentful.
Lives in a sense of alienation and neglect, feels pushed out, shaken with contempt.
In his spare time he watches sports from other places, and remembers that this is the most beautiful time of the year.
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