It is a time of selectivity, or what is called now. I assume that there will be thousands of kids overwhelmed with exams, longing for childhood or wishing to be somewhat older. But I would tell them that they are very lucky. It is worth these days, they will have been distressed, but once they have ended up a heavenly landscape will be opened on the horizon. It is the last summer before university and FIFA has prepared for them a tremendous gift.
I have been asking the reasons for the creation of the FIFA Club World Cup, and I have already found the main one. Money does not matter: what matters is happiness. And those kids who have overcome the selectivity exam will shortly achieve the zenith of happiness. Because, with a little vital luck, they will not be with their colleagues, at someone's house, taking out pizzas from the oven and seeing a fluminense-bland Hyundai, a Pachuca-Salzburg or a Mamelodi Sundowns-Borussia Dortmund, one day after another, early morning after dawn.
And they will not know, but they will be so happy that in the future, remembering it, it will hurt.
In addition, in case the award was not enough, within half a century, those kids can tell their grandchildren that they saw the first club world world worldwide Gladiator.
They can boast historical event and seem wise just for being old. It is something very sport: talking with hand glasses gives you authority and respect.
Sport also pushes you to the balcony of history live and live. Sometimes it is not easy to realize, with the tension of the moment. I remember one of those finals between Spain and the United States, at the Olympic Games and in basketball. When he finished, the announcer shouted that we had seen the best game of all time, or almost, or something, and we seemed super exaggerated, but after a while we thought and said, host, because perhaps it has foundation.
The final of the champions
Something similar happened to me last Saturday, while I saw the Champions League final. He was not entirely aware of the transcendence of PSG's triumph to Inter until Mayulu scored the fifth goal and then I understood. So, yes. Then I said 'this is being Mayulúsculo.
Mayulúsculo And, in a sense, unexpected. Who was going to tell us that we would see this Dembelé that has molded Luis Enrique. I would like to know what they have done with him, because I intuit that there will be something that will not come out in the documentaries. To the old man Dembelé You would not let him choose the entrants at any dinner, but the new Dembelé He has learned to make the right decisions. I also sensed that at some point in our life many would have needed a Luis Enrique In this matter.
Knowing how to choose is almost always more important than knowing how to do. Know the why and not only what is the nuance that differentiates the players from those who (alone) play. It should also be known, when you finish selectivity and choose career.