Credo che mai come oggi si possa considerare l'attività sportiva, svolta a livello agonistico e con rilevanza nazionale, a sort of "deformed and deforming mirror" of our society paradox of the false and glittering prosperity.
billion euro to buy this or that player, huge interest linked to sponsors and the sale of television rights, people who change in mood (to do or get hurt), depending on where the ball ends up, "supporters" who go to the stadium with banners and bars, package deals televisvi to enjoy 24 hours 24 matches, corporate balance sheets in red, black betting, match referees and "controlled" or "sold" dozens and dozens of television and radio broadcasts made on 'sudden and improvident gastritis that player or negative effect that the new bomb-leading scorer has had on the sexy ....
Taking into account the most popular sports, or those more practiced as (but not limited to) football, basketball and volleyball, I would like to draw attention not so much on the individual performance of that team or that player, as you might have guessed but on turnover that is hidden behind what should perhaps be defined differently in our vocabulary of Italian (sport = physical activity individually or in groups for fun or to improve the physical condition of the body) .
Thus, in reflecting on two recent cases of soccer Marches, which could be considered emblematic and illustrative of the reality sick of the national competitive sport: the Ancona, excluded from the series B (in "good company", as stated here: http://www.nuovasocieta.it/sport/6814-calcio-addio-ad-ancona-e- 20-club-of-league-pro.html) and Fossombrone, which will probably have to say goodbye to the series D also gained through the investment of Mr. Bikkembergs (come under fire from the Guardia di Finanza and ready to leave Italy , primarily Fossombrone Football: http://www.corriereadriatico.it/articolo.php?id=111114).
It is now a gangrenous leg that rests on (read donors) decidedly shaky: it sets up a competitive team thanks to the budget, and with a good dose of marketing and promotional and advertising hype will start the season and duped fans.
When the lender for any reason goes away, that society is likely to disappear overnight, and fans find themselves without a stadium or arena Sunday.
At a time of global economic crisis, mainly due to the dizzying growth of consumerism and self-destructive capitalistic economy, football and other sports that are all the rage can not be outdone: The salary increase from year to year, company accounts swell just to stay afloat, the owners of the mass media are competing to win this or that event with a kind of rod upward. A vicious cycle that grinds and crushes those who can not to keep pace with ever more dizzying and breathtaking. And even conivolge the indexes of stock markets around the world, being the main teams listed on stock lists. Lose the training of Tom Dick and I find myself with thousands of euro less in my investment funds ....
We realize that we have arrived at a paradox? Do not think it is appropriate to be heard to put a stop to all this and get back to the level of human decency?
Finally, let me tell you now, bowling (in fact, balls) still: despite all the sympathy I have for some "samples" of the Italian national football team, I could not watch even a second of the game world just ended. But not because I we have to the death with anyone in particular, nor because I do not have TV at home (just look in any bar, even in the most remote mountain village to find a television tuned to the world).
No, the reason for this is absurdity of the world balloon (same, with lower numbers of course, for other sports already mentioned), backed by millions of viewers who enjoy lemmings for a goal and get angry for the death penalty not given and, meanwhile, are fooled (just pass me the horticultural term) from sponsorship, advertising, and super-deals do nothing but short-circuit this vicious system.
Now, how can we rejoice and celebrate in watching a player - as good, good and beautiful - with annual salary millionaire, embarked on the cook's national massaged by the physiotherapist of the national training camp in the national sports center, revered and served in the hotel paid for by the National ... . when every day there are people who lose their jobs, people literally die of starvation before our eyes, people who have a life expectancy lower than that recorded in the Middle Ages ...
Me, I'm sorry, I can not watch these characters. But it's not their fault. The fault is ours, we continue to support this perverse mechanism that field on the trust of our viewers-consumers-lemmings. If you do not longer had our support, why not finally indignant against the nobility of the sport (we love), but to this shameful system that creates monsters and debt forever (or almost).
I am convinced that the sport at a competitive level must guarantee, to those who sacrificed time and with practice, a decent salary. As that of a worker or an employee.
And I come to tell you that watching your favorite sport on television, and maybe see their team win, it's like to dream. What dream? A future without a present, perhaps? Boycott
that this is no longer, for a long time, "sport". And if we do not want to do it for us, let's do for those who come after us .
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