Martín Caparrós wrote that a soccer commentary is capable of filling any annoying silence to establish a complicity even with strangers, while the recently deceased Javier Marías assured that soccer allows vacations to rest even from ourselves.
In a World Cup that makes us stick stamps as if we were all still in primary school
Juan Villoro, since 1995, in The eleven of the tribe established his literary commitment to the world of kicks. Eduardo Galeano, Eduardo Sacheri, Roberto Fontanarrosa and Oswaldo Soriano are some famous names that make soccer fans proud: muscle and intellect have finally managed to become friends, as Jorge Valdano wrote. We are from the same lodge. Soccer makes us commune with the one next door. In a tribune, in a tragedy that does not hurt so much because the following Sunday there is revengein a World Cup that makes us stick stamps as if we were all still in primary school and in a dialogue in which we can contrast our opinions with those of a famous writer because, in effect, we all feel similar things even if we express them differently way.
When my children were born I didn’t come out of the waiting room screaming wildly, celebrating the big event
When my children were born I didn’t come out of the waiting room screaming wildly, celebrating the big event. Not even when they have increased my salary, I have passed my professional exam or I have given a great birthday present. The emotional springs that a goal from your team activates are sensitive and mysterious. They change the habitual behavior, they make those who did not explode explode and tear tears of joy in sublime moments.
Also, it is healing. In a scream it makes the demons inside us come out and with those small exorcisms it alleviates the evils of the soul that we cannot release in the same way at home, at the office or at school: they would have already expelled us from any of them. Soccer is a way of life. Whoever invented it would be scared of its scope. Or he would be proud to know that, in an unequal world, he makes us all the same size from time to time.
About the author:
Francisco Javier González (Mexico City, 1959) has been a sports commentator for the press, radio and television since he was 14 years old. He is also a driver and part of the steering committee of TUDN, a commentator on W Radio and a columnist for the newspaper Reform. he wrote the book The 86edited by Planet.