"do we mean when we talk about football," is the title of the first chapter of John Sasturain (Gonzales Chaves, Buenos Aires, 1945), called Wing of foosball. According Sasturain, fiction writer, journalist and professor of literature, "football is a sport among others. And it is assumed that, as activity and product of culture, sports, what they play and competition, are proposed and intended as a mock of life, sublimation of war, large or small metaphors de comportamiento social e individual…”. Desde luego lo que se vivió el viernes 22 de octubre de 2010 en el Auditorio de Oviedo durante la entrega de los Premios Príncipe de Asturias, y sobre todo su repercusión posterior en los medios, tiene mucho que ver con esto último.
“La misión de la cultura –dijo Amin Maalouf , escritor libanés galardonado con el Premio de las Letras- es formular las preguntas esenciales. ¿Quiénes somos? ¿A dónde vamos? ¿Qué pretendemos construir? ¿Qué sociedad?...”. Su discurso fue impecable, como también lo fue el de los sociólogos Alain Touraine o Zygmunt Bauman , aunque certainly nothing happened at the ceremony will remain in such an intense "among all those present," as the brief gesture of English soccer coach, Vicente del Bosque , the approach and "invite- Luis Aragones its predecessor the post-out on stage at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo and share with the rest of the group photo and moment. " (Of course, the rest of the group appeared in front of the audience incomplete, provided that the necessary part football Sasturain defined as "a permanent unstable equilibrium", but that is not part of this discussion).
Why does that impact? Probably because, with that gesture, and unwittingly, Del Bosque has actually finished his impeccable complete response to each of the questions were formulated Maalouf few minutes earlier. And not only know who our coach and where it goes, but above all it aims to build, and obviously what is your ideal type of society.
What do we mean when we talk about football? "Successive and simultaneous games and sports, entertainment, business and endemic disease, football resists (...) to any single definition that does not realize its fundamental complexity," writes Sasturain. Since last Friday 22 de octubre, quizá deberíamos incorporar a Vicente Del Bosque como uno de sus mejores –y menos complejos- embajadores. Tanto Sasturain, como Amin Maalouf y el resto de mortales deberíamos estar de acuerdo al menos en este punto.
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