Argentine Jonathan Calleri lost his mind when he saw a young man, with the Palmeiras shirt and cell phone in hand, at the exit of the alviverde stadium after São Paulo had been thrashed in the Paulistinha decision. And he threw the boy’s gear, with a senseless slap, on the floor.
Yes, he was hot headed, although he is a seasoned professional at 28.
Then, dignifiedly, he apologized and offered to repair the damage.
A few days later, the world idol Cristiano Ronaldo, 37, with important social work, repeated the attitude of São Paulo after another Manchester United defeat.
Like Calleri, the Portuguese apologized.
Worse than both did the coach of Desportiva Ferroviária Espírito Santo when he headbutted the linesman because he was angry with the referee, who did not give the extras he wanted.
Rafael Soriano, that’s the name of the poltrão, was summarily fired, should be banned from football and even threatened to sue the victim of aggression, who would be simulating what everyone saw.
Three deplorable episodes in one week!
To what extent is the climate of hostility around the world responsible for such a state of affairs?
Cheap sociology will tell you that with warlike leadership on all continents, contamination even in nurseries is inevitable.
Attacking children or women shocks more than wars?
Black children, women and men have lived with this state of affairs since forever.
Roberto Rivellino, the best player in Corinthians history, kicked the linesman in the shin in 1974, in a game at Parque São Jorge, against Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto.
Against the same Botinha, in 1977, Serginho Chulapa, for São Paulo, imitated Rivellino and received a one-year suspension.
Neto would go further: in 1991, he spat in the face of black referee José Aparecido and does not live to regret the infamous act — and, if regret could kill, he would have been dead for decades.
Even Nilton Santos, Enciclopédia do Futebol, once as a Botafogo player, once as a Glorioso manager, punched referee Armando Marques, an open homosexual, and on both occasions he was knocked out.
If it were these terrible days, Neto would be called a racist, and Nilton Santos, a homophobe.
Soriano is understandably labeled a misogynist as well as a coward. Would you attack, for example, Anderson Daronco and his mountain of muscles? In fact, he didn’t even have the courage to attack the man who caused his revolt, but the only woman around, Marcielly Santos.
The truth is that humanity has always lived in a time of war, in a world without sun, as Edu Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri composed, in the music immortalized by Maria Bethânia.
If yesterday it was simple to attribute violence to the dictatorship in Brazil, and today it is necropolitics that saddens us, and antisocial networks, how can we explain the billionaire Cristiano Ronaldo, who was born in democratic Terrinha and works in the even more traditionally free England, cradle, also , of hooliganism?
Everything indicates that the reason is in the words, and that is the root sociology of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): “Man is the wolf of man”.
As always, finally, we need conciliators, those who pacify.
The solution is not in Russia or Ukraine. Not in Venezuela or Hungary.
In Brazil it is in October.
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