Hopelesness

I´m really surprised by last week football results. I mean in the Colombian League three teams, including my favorite, Atlético Nacional, lost. But, not only in this "chibchonbiana" league, also in the "most important football country after Brazil, Argentina. Where one of the most famous and important teams lost with one that is going to descend soon. Exactly, Boca Juniors lost by a score of 1 to 6 against San Lorenzo. Never the less, my entry today will have just a distant relations with this. As the last entry affirmed, you can analyze anything based on football and today will not be the exception.

Boca Juniors lost 1 to 6 , Atlético Nacional lost 0 to 4 and Venezuelans "lost" by 1.27%. Well, it is important to clear something out, not all Venezuela lost, as many of Colombians and foreigners may think, just the high class in Venezuela lost again. This time, it was just a 1.27%, pretty close if we have in mind that just 3 months ago they had lost for 11% against Chávez. Any ways, I believe it is fair, as it is for Boca and for Nacional, because it was the result of their moves, of their own actions in the field. If you watch both matches, you can easily conclude that Boca Juniors and Nacional are just playing as if their fans were phantoms; they don´t care what we feel or think, they just play as if they were at school, where winning or loosing is not important, just have fun. And that ignorant way of thinking is what fucks us as country and society. Yes, just have fun in your life, so do anything you like: kill, get high, drink, drive, rape because that´s what makes me happy and that´s my goal. Well, Venezuela showed once again, their intention to be part of the "XXIth century socialism" although many of its premises are illogical or hypocritical. The people in Venezuela, assuring Democracy did work on Sunday, won the match, a match that was won since Hugo Chávez was in charge 13 years ago, and it was won because they did what a government must do, or at least, what they think it should do.

Nacional had the opportunity to win but, its moves were only individual, they were not collective, and when you do something just thinking in one person, the rest turn into an obstacle. Juan Pablo Angel and Jefferson Duque, both forwards, started to be an obstacle to each other instead of helping themselves achieve a goal. Chávez and now Maduro, did the opposite. They played collectively, and lets remember which groups is bigger, the elite or the poor class? They played with the bigger group, with the poor, to win the match and, what the results have shown is that they are playing a good match. I just hope Maduro will maintain that playing idea Chávez had, or, at least, renew it for a better purpose, because what Venezuela needs is integration and not a polarization bade on the class struggle Marx talked about.

I do hope that match was won legitimately, and that Venezuela is the real winner of the match.

S.T.