Summer time, time to choose new footballers. In the media one reads everything in relation to the qualities of those one would like to have on the team. Personally, I do not understand anything about the technical-tactical characteristics of those being talked about. However, it amazes me that their human qualities are rarely talked about in depth.
On the contrary, the success that the memory of our national soccer team’s 1982 World Cup victory in Spain and the continued emphasis on the ethical value and the sharing of a common idea brought forward by Bearzot are proof of how necessary the concept of cohesion and unity of purpose is these very days.
Today, however, capital gains, the role played by prosecutors and, in any case, economic interests seem to dominate as a priority. Important aspects, but if then the players do not cooperate, one has built on sand. Utopia, I don’t think, we have to recognize that we are what we are because of others. It is such a necessary idea that was applied in South Africa by Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela in the struggle against apartheid. So many times Nelson Mandela himself spoke of Ubuntu philosophy as a fundamental cornerstone for the realization of human rights. It means to take the best of a person and bring it into me while at the same time that person can take from me what he or she considers useful and important and bring it into himself or herself.
It is called Ubuntu and expresses the philosophy of sharing what one has so that together we can become better. Applied to soccer it means that everyone is who they are because of the contributions of others. Unknowingly, the Spain ’82 World Cup national soccer team lived by the Ubuntu philosophy.
