a month ago when Argentina continued to offer its worst economic data in decades, Kelly OlmosMinister of Labor, appeared on television and said that “the important thing, the most important thing, is that Argentina win the Qatar World Cup because, the truth is, by working, during that month, to improve inflation we are not going to advance anything, while winning the world Cup It will be a tremendous boost for the whole country.” a week ago, he Foreign Minister Santiago CafieroMinister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic, announced that he planned to reopen the embassy in bangladeshclosed since 1978. “Our selection arouses an incredible fury there,” he justified.
There is no doubt, then, that Olmos and Cafiero are fulfilling their plan and this Tuesday night they took, like the other 46 million Argentines who paralyzed the country to see the walk that the albiceleste took against Croatia in one of the worst World Cup semifinals of all time, another (almost) unprecedented joy. The truth is that this World Cup has been two games and a lot of penalty contests.
play for the people
“This is a team that plays for and for its people,” he said. lionel scaloni, the Argentine coach who lives in Mallorca. And, indeed, one only has to see the ardor with which Leo Messi and his boys, who are already in the dream final, play soccer. Well, Messi keeps (just) walking and printing his stamp every ten minutes, enough to cause the winning tsunamis.
And it is evident (for the moment) that this grit, that this strength, that this will and enthusiasm that the players put in is reflected in a country that, only three days ago (neither Olmos nor Cafiero nor the Government), informed, through the UCA Social Debt Observatory, that 43% of Argentines are poor, 8.5 million not only suffer from monetary poverty, that is, that they do not have enough “money” for a basic shopping basket, but also suffer from structural marginalization. Either they lack sewers, or health care, or good education, or they live overcrowded.
But all that is postponed until Monday. “The important thing,” insists the Minister of Labor, “is to win the World Cup.” And, for this, millions of Argentines have decided to repeat the same ritual in each game. Those who saw him in his pajamas see him again in his pajamas; those who saw him with the neighbor because they lost power at home, return to the address of 3rd 2nd; those who saw him on the subway with his mobile, buy the longest ticket to repeat the ritual. The question is not to fail the albiceleste.
“We are within the order of magical thinking,” he explains edward abadi, psychiatrist and essayist, to the newspaper ‘La Nación’. «Each match supposes an infinite number of variables that the human being cannot control. That creates a lot of anxiety. And magical thinking allows us to have the feeling that some of these variables can be modulated. These rituals arrogate to us a participation in the face of the anxiety caused by the uncertain. We resort to a fantasy of omnipotence: I am the one who meddles and intervenes in destiny. And they even try to change it.
Millions of Argentines follow the theory of ‘magical thinking’ and repeat the same ritual in every game to help their team
And in those is all of Argentina. You see, one step away from absolute glory. In magical thinking. But yes, don’t let Messi get injured, please. Because even those of us who don’t know about football know that, although 46 million Argentines watch the game in their pajamas, with their neighbor or on the subway, if Messi doesn’t play, there’s no aunt.
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That’s why last night the ‘kid’ was so euphoric, who has already surpassed Diego Armando Maradona in number of goals (11 against 8, for now) and assists (8 against 7) and has led an albiceleste who, as I told you the other day, has been left expensive by Spain-2010, the only team in the World Cup history capable of winning the title after losing the first game.
“This group,” Messi said last night, “is very intelligent, it has a very good coaching staff that leaves nothing to chance, because every detail of each game and rival lets you know and that’s a great help for us. , that at no time are we lost. The first defeat was tremendous because we came from 36 unbeaten games. It was hard to get up from that blow, but this group has proven to be strong. From that moment on, everything we have played, everything, has been finals and mentally it is a tremendous wear and tear, but we are in the final, which was what we were looking for and what we promised all Argentines, that they continue to trust us that we were not going to fail them& rdquor ;.