In Latina, Flai Cgil plays solidarity and anti-exploitation football. “Diritti in campo” has become a doc brand, you put on the shirt and then you play, leaving behind you for ninety minutes (and also after the match) the worries of working in the fields. On the pitch, life experiences and unions mix. It happens in Latina as well as in Brescia and in many other cities on the peninsula. Let’s kick gangmasters, exploitation, poor work. The spotlight is once again on the football pitch of the Tecariba Sports Centre in Latina. A special team, with symbolic salaries but a lot of added civil, social and cultural value.
It may not be the Orobic coach Gasperini but Antonio del Brocco, regional secretary of Flai Cgil, is doing his best to make the boys run. Tonight the match is played with a fearsome opponent, a group of workers from the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali. Red shirt and white writing for one team, white shirt and red writing for the other, game uniforms destined to be kept, as a reminder of a football that in these cases is truly on a human scale, and that tries to counteract in this way the exploitation to which many migrant workers are subjected, who have arrived in our country in search of a better life. Yet without their work in the fields we would not have top quality fruit, vegetables and greens on our tables. Edoardo Galeano and Osvaldo Soriano teach that football is life, and as happens in life, meetings are made, friendships are made, barriers are broken down. If the game tactic is that of solidarity, there are no losers but only winners. And after the match everyone goes to dinner.
“Days like these demonstrate the normality of being together, the desire to participate, even having fun, feeling like a group. Inclusion also takes shape in these moments – explains the general secretary of Flai Cgil, Giovanni Mininni – occasions that are combined with the daily union action of collective and individual protection. We have been on the streets for two weeks in the Agro Pontino and will remain there for a long time. Symbolically we say that from this field we kick injustice and discrimination, even chasing a ball. In what is the most popular sport in the world, the game of soccer”
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2024-07-05 11:18:38
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