In spite of major advances in life and the appearance of dozens of
children oriented cable channels, the traditional and class
A
forerunner of today's football was played during the Mayan
civilization
[2000 BC - 250 AD]. Back then, the winners were
sacrificially
killed after the match.
Al-Arab Al-Yawm, Jordan
The Political
Overtones of World Cup Football
"The latest World Cup reduces the entire global political stage to falling, rising and shaken powers ... The rising powers are in
South America and Asia, the falling powers are those of Old Europe as they say,
and the shaken powers are the remnants of Eastern Europe, Africa and the Anglo-Saxons
(the United States in particular)."
Football was never merely a
sport and didn't become popular just because people liked it. Closely tied to
pagan and solar rituals going back to the Mayan civilization - even before
there was a "Latin America" - it was from the beginning a phenomenon
of ideological and political programming. Football was later adopted by the
English and Spanish, and then various dictatorships, where it developed and
fulfilled a range of psychological functions.
Football helps defuse social
tension on the field rather than the streets, it diverts attention from the
major issues, and unites tyrants with the poor through national identities and
feelings against "the other." It's no coincidence that the main
reason for the development of football in Latin American countries, Germany,
Italy, Spain and Portugal goes back to times of dictatorship.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
But that is about football in
general, which I deeply love like many sons of the lower classes.
In any
case, it must be said that the World Cup reduces the entire global
political stage to falling, rising and shaken powers.
The rising powers are in
South America and Asia, the falling powers are those of Old Europe as they say,
and the shaken powers are the remnants of Eastern Europe, Africa and the
Anglo-Saxons (the United States in particular). The indicators of this include:
1) All South American teams
as well as Asian teams from Japan and South Korea have qualified for the
second round.
2) Except for the Iberians (Spain and Portugal),
the fall of the great European teams, such as Italy, France and Denmark - and
the ouster of the USA from the second round with just one win in four matches.
3) Also note the fall of the
Francaphones, the Anglo-Saxon crisis, and the rise of the Iberians, who share the
culture, language and interests of South America.
4) Also, the crisis facing
the euro and dollar and the rise of gold reminds us of the tradition of holding
gold among Iberians and South Americans.
5)Among the
observations and indicators for Arabs, the Algerian team wasn't bad, despite
its disqualification. But most important of all, is that South Africa organized
the event and the Zionist enemy never qualified in the first place; because
before South Africa was liberated from Apartheid, it was a mirror image of the
Zionist entity, who is as afraid of Gaza and Hezbullah as it is of going the
way as South Africa.
