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Those who dance, those who dribble

2022-09-19T11:44:54.701Z


Like so many debates that affect players who give audience, this one will not die until the last reader stops being interested in a news created in an incubator


The great debate of the #vinibaila, the movement that has mobilized the world of football in defense of the Real Madrid striker, is not, of course, whether Vini can dance or not (profoundly stupid cause), but what does this matter do in a column, on the news and in the head of Pelé, who will have nothing else to do.

In other words, it is a debate that is as grateful to the media (newspapers, television, radio, social networks) as it is artificial: it does not exist, it was born here morbidly inflated, all the players have danced after a goal, no one has ever believed as provocation that someone celebrates a goal.

And like so many debates that affect players who give an audience, this one will not die until the last interested party stops clicking on the news.

modern laws.

And so, little by little, game by game, we have been placing ourselves in a new debate about Vinicius.

Let's remember the previous one, because it's interesting and only two years have passed: 40 million is ridiculous for a player like that, he tries to dribble clumsily, he doesn't score a goal, he is mocked by all the rivals from the opposing players to the leaders of those clubs, the umpteenth proof that Madrid buys for disproportionate money children who make fools of themselves on the pitch and are only worth jokes for the antis of the Chiringuito: "Vinicius pa kuando": well for PSG, Chelsea and the final of Champions, for example.

And once Vinicius is known for when, we had to look at something else to reaffirm faith: did he dance when he missed a sung goal? Did the pipe bother when he had finished off two balls into the stands?

Everything sucks when it works.

But also, everything fucks up twice as much when you predicted a future of parody, ridicule and jokes for the one that works.

The only problem with happiness is that it is considered offensive because someone cannot digest it, the only problem with happiness is that it is at the expense of others, as if happiness in sports were not a slope.

And what worse moment than celebrating a goal when another has conceded it.

The joy of the people is the best nickname for a soccer player (and for anything else): a Brazilian guy named Garrincha who danced without a ball, who danced with the ball and broke the opponent, who danced with the ball and without the ball because he understood the game as it was understood by the spectator who paid the ticket: something that was about an expensive show.

The difference between the dignity of dancing or not is the difference between a rival surrendered or still in battle;

between the lambretta used to get rid of an opponent or the one used to laugh at him.

So a player, to become great on the field and in life, has to react to kicks, threats, racist insults from the stands and even the silence and booing of his fans.

It is no coincidence that Vinicius points to the Madrid shield and it is no coincidence that he rebounds, fed up, with those who want to destabilize him in the middle of the game.

The question is, if we all take it for granted that opponents have the right to stop him in any way, why shouldn't he have the right to stop it, from the insistent and ostensible protest, and unlike kicks and verbal provocations, without physically harming the opponent?

Is denunciation more socially sanctioned than persecution?

Is the way of playing, if it goes to the show, mitigating a foul?

Let him play something else.

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