The footballers plant 'la roja'

Women's football has taken a giant step: it already has the same uproar as the men's, the same sauce - what would this sport be without bar controversies? - and that ability to talk about their miseries as if they were ours.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
25 September 2022 Sunday 17:53
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The footballers plant 'la roja'

Women's football has taken a giant step: it already has the same uproar as the men's, the same sauce - what would this sport be without bar controversies? - and that ability to talk about their miseries as if they were ours. Four days ago, fifteen players refused to be called up by Spain and not even Marca published the news...

The rebellion is meritorious because Mariano Rajoy and half the public would have died happy if she had been called to the national team, even if it was due to an administrative error.

– Patxi Ibarrena Goimendi?

-Myself.

-Galician? I inform you that you have been summoned to play with la roja. Bring the number.

People were called to the ranks – like Putin in Russia – to the polio vaccination and to the altar on a Sunday in May but rarely to play in the Spanish national team, in which, unlike the other calls mentioned, they would have lost all soul, heart and life, like the great Poli Rincón.

We have the sideral assembled and now you are going to find out who is right, without the need, we hope, to litigate the mess, because for that we are all judges or prosecutors.

To me, what catches my attention are the arguments invoked to exercise their right not to sweat the colors of Spain, these that every year we defend the taxpayers, the number 12 player in Spain, for whose coffers we give everything The players do not allege disagreements with the coach, the methods of the Real Federation or the sweat of Camacho, but that playing in these conditions affects their "emotional state and therefore my health".

We already know that in the 21st century you don't play with anyone's health and even less with their emotional state. Are we facing a paradigm shift – what a gem of an expression! – in sports and even labor relations, fifth essence of hierarchy? I wouldn't be surprised.

As the 21st century progresses, I regret not having enjoyed earlier the incipient right to the emotional state, which is above everything, even emotions. Where there is an emotion you can already forget about the Spanish fury, the Spanish national team and the red.