Although Spain lost this Sunday World Cup final against England (12:00, La 1), Spain will have won. And although this may seem so in the first sentence, there is no paradox or contradiction, because the ambiguous subject defines two different realities. On the one hand, it turns out that Spanish football team in Sydney; on the other hand, the return this country has received from the handful of mornings with the television on in the last month.
Because beyond the goals, who scores more and eats little, what Jorge Vilda actors represents, the truest example of this the best spain we aspire to be one day. We are far from being a perfect country, just as they are far from being a perfect community of people, but they are potentially ourselves.
With our envy, our jealousy, our differences, our arguments, our big and small orders. With all our great flaws as a society. But also with the virtues of disappearing in the social and political mass we have to live with: the ability to forgive each other, listen to each other, work together for the common good, overcome differences and look ahead without reproach.
“A model to follow”
“They’re a role model, a mirror in which you can look at yourself,” he said with tremendous reason. Luis Rubiales inside report Awarded to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA and the other newspapers of Prensa Ibérica. And that’s for much more than his ability on the ball, which ultimately depends on a number of small details: a ball that I could and didn’t get in, an interception that could have been red, and it didn’t. ‘t is a penalty that can and cannot be whistled.
But beyond football, this group of people taught us that it is possible (and even successful) to set aside differences to build a better future together; as in many other areas of our tense society.
that rebellion (or what is known as rebellion or vindication each one who chooses the name) ’15’ It could have been a point of no return, but the parties involved tried to listen to each other and do their best so the result turned out to be an agreement. positive catharsis. Meanwhile, opportunities for new players who are key parts of this team today.
Nobody wants you to be perfect
Yes, along the way they stay, of their own free will, Players like Mapi León or Patri Guijarroworld stars. And they have the right to do so, but a handful of respectable personal decisions do not impair the collective’s proven ability to be united. A partnership that in most cases can be instrumental rather than emotional, more relevant than sincere. But no one asks them to be perfect, just like anyone who doesn’t want this country to be perfect. Just more tolerant, more just, more united. Better.
This group of players is a sign that it is possible to reconcile family life with private life, there they are. Irene Paredes and Ivana AndresAccompanied by children in Australia and New Zealand as an example. Being a mother can never stand in the way of developing a full professional career.. The natural coexistence of different sexual orientations in a sports group without anyone asking inside or outside.
Of course, this is Spain too an expression of power feminism There will be more transcendent, more lasting and more relevant things for the present and future of women, and by extension our entire society, as if nothing else, but perhaps none of them echo and media power who have this choice. They can go as far as them, and the sad thing is that in the middle of 2023, it’s still appropriate to devote a paragraph to this, because there are still people who don’t believe it.
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And then, of course, there’s the sporting success in Australia and New Zealand that will undoubtedly get more girls interested in football, win or lose this Sunday. Aitana Bonmatí, Cata Coll, Jenni Hermoso, Salma Paralluelo and of course Alexia Putellas, references to look for. Get ready to read reports on the exponential increase in girls registered and federated in football clubs all over Spain in September. They will be kicked.
This Spain is developing our Spain and we should aim for it when we label the national teams of different sports as representatives of our country, ourselves. Social benefit remains an unavoidable responsibility of high-level sportas dictatorships Saudi Arabia they want to protect. And this selection does its job more than necessary.
And maybe they’ll win the World Cup. Let’s hope so. However Not forgetting that Spain has already won.