Biting to win: learning from Suarez

The Suarez bite to  Chiellini is the reaction of those who is frustrated to satisfy his needs as a player and as the only reaction is the physical injury to the opponent. Suarez is in good company, along with Zidane and Cantona in football and Tyson in boxing, belongs to that small number of sport champions who cannot manage their emotions during times of increased competitive pressure. Their response is primordial, archaic, they have not made a simple foul of retaliation, such as the one that claimed the expulsion of Marchisio. They accomplished a rather primitive foul; bite the shoulder, or with the head knock down the opponent without the ball or kick during the game … one fan. The way to overcome these situations is to not live other moments of high tension, but if you’re a player you cannot. For them it’s easy to understand, because we are talking about champions but to control the behaviors, stopping the impulsive reactions is not easy. For them, it’s usual to cope with the obstacles in the satisfaction of their own needs and be able to deal with. But what does the mind say in those moments? It tells him sadly “go and shoot because otherwise you’ll be to succumb and only if you are hard, others will respect you.” They have been hildren whose parents were absents or authoritarians but knowing it does not help, you need instead to recognize that now you are an adult responsible for your reactions, and that whatever the education received is now time to take responsibility for these actions. Suarez has been banned for 10 days for a bite to an opponent and he even went to a psychologist but it was not enough. It does not help to change the being overpaid and being accepted because in any case you scored a lot of goals, but you forget the person to favor the player. How many goals worth a bite, a behavior that is anti sport behavior? Is this the champion style we want to educate our child?

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