What if we watch the World Cup at school?

The abhorrent honesty.

How will the patio be for acts of sporting honesty to cause a stir in Argentina.

Boca and Racing played for the championship in the last league game.

Boca started with a point advantage and it was enough to beat Independiente, Racing's historic rival, to consecrate himself.

Racing had to win and wait for news, nothing less than playing against River, Boca's fierce rival.

Against all odds, Boca equalized and Racing had it in their hands when, two minutes from the end, the referee awarded a penalty.

Scoring him was worth a championship, but River's goalkeeper stopped him producing an apotheosis… on Boca's pitch.

So much ethical greatness felt bad for an important part of River's fans.

In the end Gallardo, River's legendary coach, put context: "In a country where everything is suspected and seems empty of values,

we had dignity and respect for the profession”.

That is worth more than a championship, but football has always had a hard time understanding it.

Wednesdays in the sun.

Barça fell out of the Champions League and I know Madridistas who celebrated it.

Even the subtitle of this article has something disrespectful.

Badly done.

I never understood joy without honor.

It would be another thing if the cause of the elimination had been Real Madrid, but I don't see the point in winning by an interposed team.

I always believed that a great Barça makes Madrid greater and vice versa, but the footballing instinct is of a wild nature and is not for subtleties.

That is why Gallardo's statements will have seemed naive to many and this article, to them, an inopportune and even unpleasant act of football puritanism.

As we accept that football awakens the animal that we were, we relate it more to misery than to greatness.

The World Cup as a problem.

Sports pages are not opened to receive ethical lessons, because that is an area in which we all feel champions.

Including me, who was the first to hug Maradona when he, with God's help, scored that goal against the English with his hand.

But I will continue in my efforts to sanctify football, taking it further: proposing it as an educational exercise.

The World Cup is coming in the middle of the school period and there are two ways to see it.

One as interference, if we take into account its power of distraction, which in the best of cases will provoke an inopportune curiosity during the matches and, in the worst, an inadmissible school dropout.

The other possibility is to use it as a motivating factor, and here I am going to get into unexplored territory but which, since the day intellectuals embraced football, no longer seems aberrant.

The World Cup as a solution.

Why not a television in the classroom before an important game?

They will not tell me that this would not produce a new and extraordinary expectation.

And here comes the part that would give value to the experiment.

Thirty-two selections give a lot to talk about geography and history;

a World Cup in Qatar could open an interesting debate on human rights;

football itself could be the best excuse to search for the borders between reason and passion, between country and national team, between mischief and cheating.

If this article shows anything, it is that there is room for misery and greatness in football.

What better than a classroom to illuminate his noble side and turn him into an ally in the struggle to capture the attention of young people, who seem to be more dispersed every day?

Between goal and goal there is a world,

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