2024-09-18 14:01:49
October 15th is the day of Saint Teresa’s day and she is remembered with an unprecedented event: she died between October 4th and 15th, 1582. You read that right. Pope Gregory XIII decided to adjust the calendar and the next day was the 15th. In other words, there are 11 days in our history that never existed. Curious. Sometimes time disappears, something we have all dreamed of at some point. That eternal desire to hide for a moment that immense excess of reality. One might wonder whether Pope Francis could not adjust the calendar again and make this piece of recent history disappear, where all traces of piety are extinguished and the human figure ceases to move. This official machinery of the faithful, converts and traitors who are devouring an entire country without batting an eyelid.
It is curious how in our country the language of economics and sports is fused. Months ago, Riquelme became a relevant interlocutor. He dropped a simple and revolutionary phrase: “The club belongs to the members, it is not for sale,” he said. It didn’t sit well with the market prophets. It’s as if he had said that the State belongs to the citizens, and it is not for sale either. An obvious statement that is not so obvious in these times. He added something else: “Boca will not be privatized.” Which is the same thing, but it sounds even worse. The little word immediately aligned him, unwittingly, with the so-called “cultural Marxism” (often mentioned by the extreme right), enemy of the values of Western society and the free market, where everything is susceptible to being privatized down to the core. Trump already said it: “Cultural Marxism permeates everything.” He repeated it again before the debate with Kamala Harris, where he stated, without blushing, that immigrants eat American dogs. It’s true. In our country, with the hunger that exists, even the nationals are about to eat Murray, Milton, Robert and Lucas.
They consider “Marxist culture” to be everything that feeds the progressive current of domination of ideas, beliefs, morals, the arts, education, sports. Yes, even sports. That is why a simple election in Boca became a formidable battlefield where to confront the enemy. They went after Riquelme without realizing that, at that point, he had already become an unexpected symbol of popular resistance. The current president of Boca understood that they were not only after his head but also the very core of the club. And he stood up to them. In the end, he took down Macri and Milei and slapped the model in the face, something that takes on a relevant value today when a large part of the State is being privatized.
The inclusion of Juan Román Riquelme in “Chiqui” Tapia’s list for his third term in the AFA draws a background of hope. Together they will take on the great battle that will take place for the control of Argentine football. This is no small feat. The united list seeks to resist the onslaught of the national government to institutionalize the Sports Corporations. Both of them, without knowing it, have become the new “Marxist” enemies of Argentine football for the government.
We know how the powerful manipulate and attack. They do it well. It is clear that they are people who know. They do not do it alone. They are accompanied by the judiciary, the banks, the dominant media, the markets, the companies and the sewage of politics.The truth matters little in this deep present that no longer comforts or shelters, it only scrapes and hurts.
Journalist, former player of Vélez, clubs in Spain and world champion 1979