2023-08-25 10:00:32
As I am not very patriotic, I have not been happy with the triumph of the Spanish soccer players in the Women’s Soccer World Cup that has been played between New Zealand and Australia these days; I want to say that I have not been happier than if the English, the Swedish or the Americans had won. What’s more, I confess that sometimes I have wished that our rivals would win in the face of the jingoism with which the people of this country usually accompany the development of any competition, starting with the journalists in charge of broadcasting them.
He sports patriotism It is perhaps one of the most absurd manifestations of that strange feeling that makes the nationals of a country identify with it even at the cost of excluding others. The fact that some athletes are considered to be the holders of their representation is something so childish that it should make a society that believes that if its athletes succeed, the entire country does, and vice versa, if they fail, this country fails as well. Let alone when in the effort for their athletes to show the world their superiority they dope them, as some nations did for decades. When an athlete outruns his competitors, the only thing he shows is that he outruns his competitors, not that he is superior, and the same happens with those who jump, throw the discus or javelin, or play soccer. That their family and friends rejoice at their victories seems normal to me, but why do I have to rejoice if I don’t know them? Why am I carrying a passport from the same country as theirs?
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Show you sporty statelesshowever, it is reason enough for them to consider you a weirdo, even an unpatriot, which is a very serious crime for depending on which people. The fact that you are not happy that a compatriot wins in his athletic specialty or that you are not saddened that another loses a Formula 1 test or a tennis match makes you suspect of not loving your country and therefore anti-Spanish. It doesn’t matter if you pay your taxes, contribute to their progress with your work and effort, participate in their public life and respect their laws, nothing will free you from being considered an unpatriotic if you don’t get excited to see a girl from Huelva play better badminton that their Chinese competitor or a Cuban nationalized Spanish run faster than their adversaries. Even the Catalans and the Basques who celebrate collective victories waving their flags instead of the national one deserve better consideration for some people than the stateless sports people, those anti-Spanish people who not only do not celebrate the successes of our compatriots but are ashamed to see our neighbors, including those who are unaware of the most basic rules of the game, bellow and jump wrapped in flags because some soccer players have won a competition, proof of our superiority.
But, in case I had any doubt about what I should be happy or sad about so as not to be a bad Spaniard, the celebration of the women’s soccer championship by the President of the Spanish Federation, a guy who looks like a bodyguard, has cleared them all for me. What was a sporting success and -for many- a further step in the fight for equality between men and women has been reduced to the cause of controversy due to the kiss that he gave on the lips to one of the players during the celebration of the triumph before the surprise of the soccer player. Nobody talks about football anymore and about the normalization of its practice (like that of other sports) among women and what this means less. So that?
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