The debate around the resumption of post-health crisis football is becoming more and more ubiquitous. Who thinks what in French football? Where is the unit, the will to come out head up from the crisis? Each passing day brings to light personal interests, divergent thoughts. Demagoguery, good feelings, moralism invades the debate. Where it should be concrete, effective, we read sandwiches of unnecessary lines. Verbal soup for a simple summary: health first. Thank you gentlemen. War is not good, peace is also better, right?
The interview with Rudi Garcia is further proof of the need for our football. He is the leader of a WhatsApp group of L1 coaches. And the group’s advisor is the worst coach in the history of our football. My God, all that was missing was that. But what did we do to deserve this?
So Rudi Garcia does not want to resume if it is to play every 3 days and if the truce is shortened. But after having served us his “health romanticism”, he ends by saying that we must still resume. So shit? How are we going to get out of it? So, we do not accept extraordinary conditions to respond to an exceptional situation but we must still resume. Is there another WhatsApp group for translation?
And then, these people really think that there is someone who wants to push for a return without an adequate sanitary prerequisite?
Curious this impression that behind Rudi Garcia, there is the thought of OL since the beginning of the crisis. Probably a coincidence.
Still a positive point, Garcia evokes the date of April 23 and the speaking of UEFA. We may then be able to stop brewing the wind in order to really respond to the challenges.
Behind certain coaches, more and more players show all their passion for football by declaring not necessarily want to resume. Curious, right? In all sectors of activity, we want to find work, give life a meaning, but among football players not. Receiving his salary, even a reduced one, and playing with his son in the villa’s garden is enough.
I must be very naive, but I would have liked a clear and simple statement by our football players. Des: “We are in a hurry to resume” … “As soon as we are sure that it is safe, we want to return to the field quickly.” “Even if we don’t like playing without an audience, getting close to him, offering a little fun despite everything, we really want to do it.” “We spoke with the medical staff, we know that we will have to do this and that and even if we are not in top form, we will give the maximum” …
No, we shouldn’t expect anything from our football. We think we are negative. Playing every three days is not good. We’re going to get hurt. Empty glass is our passion.
Recently in the After, Thibaud Leplat came to talk to us about his remarkable paper evoking the tracks of a post-crisis renewal. He spoke to us about the terrible economic crisis of 2008 that hit the Spanish economy and therefore the clubs. The reaction by reflection, the game not only saved Spanish football but also led it to the top of the world, in clubs and in selection. Gaming is passion. Thibaud said it could be a source of inspiration. I really like my colleague. He’s a football intellectual. But he must know that our football has stopped thinking for a very long time. He does not know that to count and still not well if we trust the management of our clubs.
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The spectacle offered by our football players is therefore every day more distressing. Managers, unions, players. It is hopeless. The LFP and its general manager have much merit in wanting to raise this cracked set everywhere. I would like all these little people to get out of the “sanitary correct” of which the philosopher André Comte-Sponville speaks. Nobody wants to take a risk and send anyone to face the danger. You need to go forward. To be responsible is to think afterwards and to stop lamenting or making whims about the schedule or playing conditions. Besides the health aspect, this crisis also has a societal aspect. It would be good to live up to those who fight every day to care for the sick. Everyone has their role. Medicine is not going to solve all of our problems and soccer players don’t have to play doctor and make the assistants stretcher bearers. Football is just a game, it’s a sport, it’s true. But it is important in the lives of millions of people. For those who do it, watch it, dream it, live it. A little concrete, pragmatism and less bazaar ideology. I would like someone to speak up and say: We will do everything to make it possible. Can we dream that this is possible without feeling guilty for being an accomplice of the virus? We wait for the green light from those who know and we stop nagging.
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