2024-04-11 14:35:25
At a certain level of success and political power it seems inevitable to have a massacre, a bombing or a coup d’état on your resume, or everything together, like Henry Kissinger. Once you go beyond a hundred deaths, you no longer care about a thousand or a million to enter the category of great “statesman.” Having awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the late American leader is so paradoxical, it is as if you were fired from the Gestapo for excessive sadism.
In this new soulless modernity, being an expert in “denialism” also makes you a great statesman. Javier Milei knows it. He learned quickly. “If there are things to do, you must do them quickly,” the former North American Secretary of State told Vice Admiral César Guzzetti, auditor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine military dictatorship, on June 10, 1976. And they were done. Kissinger denied it his entire life, despite the declassified papers. Milei continues to deny it. She must be looking for the Nobel.
There are so many urgent things in this runaway reality that no one has time left to take care of the important things. Like the famous meeting of “Kun” Agüero and Javier Milei. “I have had the joy of being able to speak with ‘Kun’ Agüero, a person with an intelligence that is not at all conventional, a truly surprising analytical depth and who understands the nature of the approach we make of Sports Joint Stock Companies”, declared the president. For his part, the former Argentine forward stated: “They are people of good faith.” One reads the phrase and your whole body shakes. People of good faith? Milei has allowed us to meet characters that we never imagined existed. People who even now it had not manifested itself, in every sense, even in the paranormal. Because if something defines this Government, above all things, it is bad faith, not to mention bad temper.
Great athletes generally understand the world in accordance with their specific and private interests. There have been many years of believing that the best is the one who wins the most, without understanding that sport was created, fundamentally, to integrate society, to defend its values, to collectively enrich the heart of a community.
“Kun” Agüero and Javier Milei have liked each other. Was feeling to face their future “negotiations” in Argentine soccer. Maybe the purchase of Independiente by Manchester City. Maybe. Clubs-companies, aseptic of all community poisoning, without social conscience, with the sole responsibility of generating profits.
There is something that has to do with what we breathe in the air, with something that escapes our control. That feeling that others will decide for us and, faced with such a perspective, we need to defend what we feel is ours. It is not about unhealthy nostalgia for the past, quite the contrary, it is awareness so that in the future we do not have to regret what we lost. Football is part of the roots of our personal memory, and not of our conscious memory, so limited and so unfaithful, but the other, the deepest, the one that responds to the smells, flavors and experiences that voluntary memory cannot invoke.
Journalist. Former player for Vélez, Spanish clubs, and Tokyo 79 World Champion.