They say that it happened aboard a yacht, in the heat of a party crowned by all the luxury that usually accompanies the film industry in some of its celebrations.
The night was young even for those who already comb gray hair and the host, a well-known Spanish producer, approached one of his guests with a lobster in his hand to make a kind of confession with a certain philosophical charge: “There are two types of life ”, it started.
"One is this and the other is not life."
Christophe Galtier, coach of Paris Saint-Germain, was asked this week about the possibility of using the train, instead of the plane, for some team trips.
And they did it in the presence of the great star of the team, Kylian Mbappé, who could not contain his laughter after exchanging a look of complicity with his new boss.
That is the only possible argument to excuse him minimally.
That Mbappé was aware of the type of response that Galtier was going to offer and that he reacted as Louie
the Legs
usually reacts when another character from The Simpsons faces the double meanings of Tony
the Fat
: with the typical initiate giggle.
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The PSG coach and Mbappé make fun of the possibility of traveling by train instead of by plane
The first swords of world football, overwhelmingly, live in a bubble that does not break no matter how hard a hurricane hits it.
They enjoy —consciously or not— that life that is life, that of the yacht and the lobster, not that other which, in many cases, they abandoned based on talent and effort so as never to have to live it.
The great problems of today's society are not his own, with few exceptions, and his ideal of activism is reduced to a few advertising campaigns in which the idol gives up his image, or his voice, to try to raise awareness among his millions of followers. with a small mouth
How could they, universal generators of happiness and wealth, be part of any problem?
The only thing missing, they will think, is that now they are required to be part of the solution.
The climatic emergency, for a soccer player who uses the private plane more frequently than a can opener, is nothing more than the refrain of some popular song, perhaps a graffiti on the walls surrounding the airport.
It is a privilege that has been earned without any favor and for which he pays religiously, without skimping on tips, which is why he does not even consider dispensing with everything that others interpret as an excess, almost as a threat: individualism has become too great for us now to try to add them to any kind of common cause, especially when said cause is not altogether common.
In France, as in Spain and in almost any developed country in the world, the so-called climate emergency is discussed —or fought— with other easily digestible concepts, among which the so-called climate fanaticism stands out lately.
The scientific evidence is equated with the denialist joke and the political debate takes care of the rest, inviting the footballer, the athlete, to stay away from any controversy that is not limited to the arbitration decision on duty or the number of zeros in his new contract.
"Republicans also buy sneakers," Michael Jordan himself said to explain his refusal when the Democratic candidate, Harvey Gantt, requested his support to become the first black senator from South Carolina.
"To be honest," Galtier responded to the journalist's question amid laughter from Mbappé himself and many of those present at the press conference, "this morning we spoke with the company that organizes our trips to see if we can get on the boat sailing”.
He failed to take a lobster out of his hat and suck on his head to stage, as God intended, that one thing is his life and another, very different, ours, which is not even life.
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