A
sophisticated Roman  aphorism
says, “reason belongs to the fool “.
Imagine how must feel during this media-sporting winter, beat by doping
scandals, 'settled' matches and mainly for the Olympic nomenclature's
corruption who has invested so many years of his own life in all that
as I did. Being a little attacked and then expulsed from the “sporting
world” “. I was thinking about this delayed reason due to the front pages
of newspapers a morning at the end of January. I quote that of Repubblica,
closer to me since I've passed round ten years working there and, since
'a new way of watching at and talking about sport' of mine, even being
removed from office due to an impressive 'sporting', that is political
and economic, censorship: the 1982 football world championship. So I quote:
“Suspicions about Venezia-Bari. Tuta, the goal man: they've told me not
to make goals“. The Federcalcio set up an enquiry: a fight for an unsuccessful
fraud? ”. Beside the editorial, signed by a prestigious collaborator,
Andrea Manzella, there is : “Sport is subjugated to market. The scandal
of the bribed Olympiads“. With the above mentioned spirits of the fool,
I begun to read the leading article, first with attention then with perplexity,
finally getting angry . The heart of the matter was the emulsion of the
concept expressed by the title in some not equivocal columns. Ending that
the whole zoo cannot self-reform but it must regard to more general political
and social-economic controls and rules. A good article, even if quite
expected, not to say banal. And so where my perplexity and following anger
rose from? While I was going on reading and I nodded even not bowing my
head but with thought, I started asking me if I knew the text's writer.Yes
of course, Andrea Manzella, learned constitutionalist, scholar of right,
since ever near to power and maybe if I don't have a too bad memory he
holds a relevant institutional office. Well then, a contemporaneous “sage”.
But surely a sage who in the last fifteen years, while with self-punishment
haughtiness I picked nits in sport and X rayed its (awfully bad) management,
many times held professionally just that office: he has been a “sage”
for the  Federcalcio
when on  alternate
seasons it foreshadowed whichever refunding of the Body, he has been “sage”
as a consultant of the Coni and federations, more or less formally, many
times it has been mentioned his name as eventual 'commissioner' for one
of these organisms in crisis. So to stigmatize “sport subjected to market
“ is it the distinguished Mr. Manzella, who has crossed this sea many
time for business? Here it is the reason of my dejection. Here we are
at the usual “double morals “, at the 'not to practise what one preaches',
etc. The same Manzella who can - or who could - commit himself to change
things, not only has not committed himself but makes morals, and all remains
at a media recitation level, where truth, or its investigation, nobody
takes care, quite the opposite, it's better to keep out of its way. An
oligarch circle that, in the sport as well as in the rest, plays the lord
and master, does not want controls, in an educated way celebrates “democracy”,
provided that the democracy concept does not affect materially power and
wallet. Signature: a fool. |
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