Watching Brazil lose to the Netherlands
today (by 3 to 0) and to Germany a few days ago (by 7 to 1) in the semi finals
of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, I reminded myself of the key point in soccer: Which
is not to win or lose a game but to play the latter very well with
determination and tenderness. Questions such as the following abound: How could
this ever occur? What did the coach (Luiz Felipe Scolari) not do to prevent the
catastrophe? How can Brazil get over the humiliation? What next? In all these
questions, we forget that the lessons in Brazil's loss in the World Cup are
also ours. There are clear moral lessons in the fact that Brazil, the greatest
soccer team of the world, lost two major games consecutively without being able
to repair the damage on the playground. We must always remember that no one has
the monopoly of victory. Empires rise and empires fall. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you lose. So, Brazil's failure is a parable to everyone because
it also shows that this great nation's football can and shall rise again with
hard work.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
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