we are proud
The silver medal is an honor. Although the emotion is too strong and the defeat is difficult for the soccer player to digest, this July 19 will remain in the memory. There it is Messishedding his manly tears, after a long silence after the announcement of the end of the final, his last in a World Cup. That’s how it was Maradona at the Italy 1990 awards ceremony, that other Sunday in July, when the National Team was on the verge of a two-time championship.
Those tears of Leo are those of all of us who love the most wonderful sport. Beyond virtues and defects, we are runners-up in the world, with several days full of suspense and relief. Climates that were good for us socially, because of the ball, because of its charm. This emotional world cup (atypical, in three countries, with times divided into four quarters, with technology on the ball) has just ended, and left us heroesthat title of sporting dignity that is repeated in the light blue and white. And in a process like Scaloni’s, there is no possible defeat, just as there was none in the Bilardo cycle.
Just like in life, it doesn’t matter how many times you fall, but how you get up. Leo got up, like so many other times when the ball was not so friendly for 90 minutes of a brave competition.
The sad faces will soon change. The spirit will once again find the harmony with which they worked to be what they are.
Anyone who has ever gone out on a playing field knows that defeats are always painful. Just like in the life of every human being, at one point we die and then we are resurrected. And this Selected One will be eternally resurrected in the memory of children and adults.
Today with Leoas yesterday was with Diegothe same tickling goes through us again. Yes, we cried, there was pain, but we are grateful.
It happened in lost finals, within a World Cup in which we all agreed that we had gone too far. And the best won us.
36 years ago, the gold went to Germany, in the Olympic stadium in Rome, as this time a Spanish team (which has accumulated 39 games without losing) did so in the MetLife Stadium in New York.
Go rest in complete peace of mind, guys. The example of each one in their individuality, like that of the collective of this national team, will last forever in the heart. We are proud.
