2023-06-25 11:38:00
In times when everything is measurable, where it is measured who has more followers, more views, who earns more money, who is more famous; something strange happened in Rosario. Nobody wanted to measure. Perhaps because one more soul did not enter the Colossus, the ego was left outside. Perhaps because it was too big, too ostentatious, it did not fit in the leper stadium.
It was a strange afternoon-night, right from the start. Almost all of them arrived (except one, for obvious reasons) in a group: world champions, amateur soccer players, artists, influencers, TV hosts, people to whom statues were dedicated; all together. Nobody dared to think about himself and that there were people who I could have taken a sheet, put what I earned on the tableaccumulated, or whatever.
Not even the owner of the party had any qualms about invite the best player in the world, even at the risk of stealing the limelight. (I remember Lothar Matteus’s farewell day, in Germany. The party ended when a guest, Diego Maradona, was replaced). But this time not even the new world champion and 7-time Ballon d’Or and four-time Champions League winner felt that he could put himself in front of the honoree.
What’s more, the world champion coach, who was once again stepping on the grass of the stadium where he was trained, went almost unnoticed. neither the second top scorer in the history of the teamwho spent more than 30 years without returning to the Colossus, wanted to put the cart before the horse.
What’s more, there was a man on the bench who managed to be champion cas a player and coach, and whose last name gives name to one of the stands of that site. But there was no case.
Not even those on the opposite sidewalk were tempted to force a rivalry that could have generated another focus of attention. Nor did “the 40 thousand souls” need fight those who are supposed to be in the antipodes of their feelings. What’s more, they took the idol’s request to the letter and applauded one of them.
No one wanted to be more than anyone in times where if you are not more than the other, you pretend to be. Maybe it was an oasis, maybe it was the secret to breaking a curse that lasted 36 years, maybe we learned something. Hopefully it’s not just a wish.
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