Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Spanish football as a reality show

Big Brother

Like a house set in the mountains far from the madding crowd, with a watchful eye attentive to detail and be as trivial debate. Two teams elected to enter the house and the rest were allowed to enter the weekend as an excuse to call our league championship and kept the ball in the trunk to give it some kick a couple of times a week for press gossip and more. The football we played.

Spain is different, see if it is. The vast majority of the country has a choice: white or Barca. Like football, but like most positioned on either side and go into battle armed with his own arguments to defend and defeat the opponent, the ball is not important. Gradually, the football is losing prominence and every gesture, every word, every issue becomes a dimension-sporting unlikely for which, at last, after all, no longer a sport. Like the sickness and everything is a matter of analysis and debate for something are the only country where Belén Esteban would be the queen of television, because we are different.

And if we were few, Mourinho arrived. The famous Portuguese coach arrived in Spain with the band proved to be one of the best coaches in the world, but that matters little in favor of studying him, because this is football, and gossip is what matters. Mourinho is not winning friends, and behaviors such as the list of thirteen happy refereeing errors not only damages their image, but the club he represents, but who cares what party just a few minutes before was played at the Bernabeu, it matters little he has been labeled as a technical endlessly ultra-defensive and the Madrid to Sevilla to play with one less the entire second half, with three defenders, without being overwhelmed and searching for the goal. It matters little, the list of thirteen errors is essential.

Yesterday, Miguel Angel Portugal reaches out after the match against Hercules a list of refereeing errors would still be wrong, but who the hell would care? Not sell, you would not need to remind ourselves to Portugal wrong for doing so. It would be important because it would not give it. In Porto Seguro, London and Milan Mourinho reminded by his press conferences and faux pas, certainly there are only talked about it after the game. Or not, because only here we realize how insignificant that is Jose Mourinho.

The Madrid-Barça debate is carried forward everything that comes your way. The beautiful game is the conflict and the shaft the old rivalry between the two sets. We'd love to see an equitable distribution of television rights, which they had their small piece of cake, not everything was a table reserved for the big league and show fair, but neither swallow a Tato-Mallorca Real Sociedad on TV and if they had some more money to sign a couple of good players in history would be no different.

If broadcasters do not get an audience with these parties, how will they pay? Where would they get the money? The Real Madrid and Barcelona are hearing, give money, generate, and therefore they are paid. What happens why not elsewhere? Because in England the whole country is the Manchester or Liverpool, and because a Sunderland-Everton and is being followed closely. Because in Italy the country is not AC Milan or Juventus, because in Rome following the Rome and Lazio, and because in Naples continues to Naples. In other countries it boils down to two teams and although the sickness band, football remains the undisputed star.

Sports journalism is another focus of criticism and debate. Many are those who criticize the media, who know themselves what was said in Ball Point or those who know by heart each holder of a mark. We are what we demand. A newspaper does not live in the air and good intentions, live sales and what sells is what is demanded. Football and not morbid demand, conflict and perhaps obtain benefits. But for now, the Spanish football will remain in full progress, a house away in the mountains with the permission of all.

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