Brazil’s Loss is also ours

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.