Mexico 1986. Unfortunately I was not there, but I was to come. On 22 June there
Argentina-England: Falklands War has been over for a bit ', was, by Argentina, a stupid war, a defeat Safe and tragic, commissioned by a short-sighted military dictatorship in crisis to relaunch itself under the pressure of national sentiment. It was the end of the dictatorship. The national feeling - instead - would have found, four years later, an outlet (the only allowable) far more sensible, artistic, human. Sport. Football.
England-Argentina quarter-final of a world left in history for many reasons, but above all for that. The Argentina will win it, this world, and will be a revenge for all. Emir Kusturica, in his documentary on Maradona , obsessively this time has taken the life of the Pibe de Or, has made it the emblem the career of Diego, the trait d'union of his two reasons for living. Football and the social and political redemption of Argentina. A mini-animated sequence of a few seconds (Maradona's playing against kings and prime ministers and American English) is there to remind us what it can mean for many people at once, a football game.
Something like that, I think, will be the challenge of tomorrow, Milan-Naples. -Challenge championship, they all say. I care little, or rather I care any less about the rest. This is not at stake.
said about Maradona's infamous 'hand of god ', which secured the victory to his team: "Who steals from a thief has a hundred years of forgiveness."
This is not a political blog (but 'what is today the real difference - quite rightly calls Oliviero Beha - between a football fan and a supporter of a party or a policy area? ') and f bears the comparison is a bit' inappropriate. Players and fans of AC Milan did not have faults. Some will say that perhaps it have, because in some way be paid for or support such a chair is to be complicit. But this is a matter of conscience, not of justice. Similarly, the players will play for Napoli, of course, to win and to win a place higher and higher in the standings. Many of them are Italian, and in any case everyone is right and normal and do not play for Napoli in Italy for good.
Many will watch the match for Napoli, some hoping for a victory difficult (away and without the imagination of the few in the field), to stay there.
I I can not help but look at it as a challenge against the first in the standings, but against those who in the last twenty years and perhaps longer occupied my land and usurped my future.
Maybe the players of Naples will not have the motivation to live well. Yet these Italian football time is more a reflection of Italian society, where as wrote Gianni Mura, there are 'rich getting richer and the poor get poorer'. For this, I think, too, even the blues, can and perhaps should play this game as a challenge (at least) between football for good and for evil one. Between football arrives, proudly, in second place with his own powers, with the beautiful game and the strength of will, and the football stays there at the top, as untouchable in Italy all the untouchables of divine Providence, or, more prosaically, the arbitral tribunal.
For this reason, and for many others, I hope that Napoli win tomorrow. And I hope do it with a game properly and openly. And I also think, however, that if to achieve it we will need someone to put it in with a punch, when the referee does not see, we are equally justified. 'Who steals from a thief, has a century of forgiveness'.
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