Long live Portugal!
As for me, the essence of a football game resides in its playful character transposed to a cultural level that is indispensable in the formation of a society, appealing to the awakening of a collective intelligence in a demanding adaptation to the rules of understanding well for doing well.
When the ball rolls, a flare of emotions takes place in which a solidary relationship is required, where the player, the coach, the manager, the referee, the fan and their biological, social, political, cultural contribution appear and where science conscience are projected through the notions of the beautiful, the aesthetic and the ethical and establish agreements of an admirable existence.
In this World Cup, taking place at an unusual time, due to the need to adapt to changes in time zones that always lead to situations of desynchronization of biological rhythms and, consequently, inability to pay attention and make decisions, lead us to bear what would be, if it were performed at the end of the season.
In this sense, I note just two examples of the many that could be referred to, the balancing of the enormous offensive threat on the flanks and the intervention of a run game by the participation of the goalkeepers, the emergence of Asian and African heritages at a high competitive level and of teams that seeming potentially weaker are transformed into a change in behavior that gives it soul, and are fixed by the apotheotic glow, spilled by a contagious enthusiasm, converted by a demolishing collective identity.
In this context, I believe that the candidates who will be closest to success will be those who will be able to overcome the demands of the competition in a more emotionally balanced way, identified with a state of mind in converting actions, in the pleasure of performing and moved by a state of mind. of cohesion and belief where enthusiasm, confidence, joy, happiness and optimism prevail, betting on success thought for the success to be achieved.
… And how much emotion to see the flag of my beloved country go up over time, with the colors of the blood that gives it life and the hope that guarantees the future, on its way to the gates of heaven!…
VIVA PORTUGAL!…
*Doctorate in Sports Science