sliced bread #2: World Cup 2006 Finals

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A powerful symbol, a great mystery: No one knows why (though theories abound), but in today’s world many people find football the only area of identity in which they recognize themselves and in which they really believe. Whatever the reasons may be, collective dignity has a lot to do with the passage of a ball flying through the air. I do not mean only the communion the fan experiences with his team each Sunday from the stands of the stadium, but also, above all, the game played in the paddocks, in the little fields, on the beaches, the few public spaces still not devoured by urbanization run amok. This sport is a shared endeavour, played in teams; it contains an energy that can greatly help the scorned to love themselves and can save them from the solitude they feel condemns them to being perpetually incommunicado. Sport, especially football, is one of the few places that can provide shelter to those who have no place in the world.

— Eduardo Galeano, Ode Magazine (Issue 29)

sliced bread #2

Saturday, December 10, 2005

World Cup 2006 Finals

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