FOOTBALL CAN DO IT ALL


So many spectators are at the stands and millions of viewers in their favorite seats, sharing opinions about football in the heat of the moment, where the players make uncontrolled actions, which may seem to be an infraction, done towards the public, and the audience feeling affected, responding with their opinions and detachment against whom, between the heat and the passion of the game, committed an aggression towards his adversary. We also see the fans with their jackets and their colors, or those who have real personalities, trying to raise the flag of reason, added to the group that is patting the back of the player that has been battered or of the provoker, feeding in this way the typical discord among the teams.

How many misunderstandings without any reason have given an opportunity to men, to act in wars and confrontations? They have been unchained by resentments and hatred, sad seeds which have been scattered by the ignorance through the history of humanity.

Football is different; it always gives a new opportunity to gentlemen, whom are jugglers of the football, allowing them to apologize with their adversary at different moments and in diverse ways, also doing so towards the audience which took part in the event, maybe indirectly, the public stayed hurt deep in their feelings. This is greatness on the part of the football players, whom with dignity and manhood; demonstrate football in all its capacity, showing it is a sport of gentlemen. It is a great satisfaction seeing the football players whom are actually playing and those who are already retired of their profession, showing their vocation of serving humanity and at the same time giving examples with their actions and public image. Walking down with humility the high steps of fame, to offer them to the world where they belong, like one more volunteer, involved in humanitarian actions; against hunger, war, cataclysms or contributing in favor of Peace and the encounter of towns. It is there where we discover an idol to his fullness, the star, whom is not only a brilliant football player, but is a man of clear principles, who feels and believes in human dignity, understanding how much he can do to relieve or to brighten up many people in different latitudes.

IT IS THAT FOOTBALL, IS SYNONYM OF PEACE


Carlos Peralta, President of WOFP-OMPP, Berlin July 9th, 2006


 

   
 
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