What if a female player had cried? Let’s say thatand Alexia Putellas misses a penalty in the round of 16 of a European Championship and bursts into tears, Would anyone have dared to say that it was regrettable or that it was ridiculous? Can you imagine? Maybe someone would have thought it, but would they have said it? Would they have dared to go so far? I sincerely do not believe that tears have a gender, but isn’t it deeply discriminatory to classify as regrettable a reaction that arises spontaneously from the feeling because the person experiencing it has a penis and not a vagina? Or is it that men cannot cry? Is that it? Can women do it and we can’t? How does it work? Isn’t it against equality that men have to cry in private? I cry a lot and I don’t consider myself less of a man for it, in fact I probably cry more than many women. You cry to keep your eyes healthy and to balance your health. The human being cries, not the man or the woman. We all cry. And if you don’t cry, then you have a problem.
Or is the issue not the uncontrollable crying but who is doing it? That would be worse, wouldn’t it? That would be even sadder than the above because whoever describes Cristiano’s tears as regrettable would be suggesting that everyone can cry except him. And why can’t he do it? Today I read Miguel Cebreiro in ABC and he was referring to ““that fine line between ambition and selfishness” which “brought a player who has won everything to the most inconsolable tears.” Let me see if I understand: Cristiano cried because he is selfish and not because he missed a penalty? Look, we’re sports journalists, not psychiatrists, right? Was Schweinsteiger being selfish when he cried when Germany won the World Cup? Was he thinking of himself when Neymar burst into tears after the seven goals conceded? When David Villa burst into tears after Spain’s elimination in 2014, was he not really sorry, was he pretending? I haven’t read or heard anyone say that it was regrettable that Villa burst into tears after Spain’s elimination, much less refer to the titles won by David, who by the way won a lot when he was a professional. Why is Cristiano’s actions regrettable and Schweinsteiger’s, Neymar’s or Villa’s actions weren’t? I don’t understand. Could it be that the problem is with those who criticise someone for crying?
It’s like the dance of Yamal and Williams against Georgia, so applaudedI am in favour of everyone crying when they feel like it, not just Neymar or Villa. If Cristiano cries, that’s fine with me too. The same thing happens to me with dancing. Nico and Lamine are not 38 years old, it’s normal for them to dance. What doesn’t seem normal to me is that a kid like Vinicius is being targeted for doing exactly the same thing as Williams and Yamal. Vinicius was called everything for dancing, but now it seems that dancing in front of Georgians is something praiseworthy, but doing it at the Bernabéu is wrong. Why? And there is no racism here because Vinicius, Yamal and Williams are all black. Racism no, but xenophobia yes, right? I mean, our players can dance, but if someone from outside does it, then they are a monkey. That’s what they called Vinicius when he started dancing, a monkey and a son of a bitch.
I think that, deep down, what bothers is the shirt that Cristiano wore and the one that Vinicius wears.If Cristiano cries it’s not because missing a penalty breaks his heart and he suffers for Portugal, no, not at all. If Cristiano cries it is because he wants to become the oldest footballer to score a goal in a European Championship. The tears of other footballers, whether men or women, are sincere, but Cristiano’s cannot be. And if not, there is the College of Psychoanalysis to prove it. What was it like?… Ah yes, that fine line between ambition and selfishness that leads a footballer to cry after having won everything. And that is another thing: Would the tears of a player who, unlike Cristiano, had not won anything throughout his entire sporting career, be justified? So it’s success that’s penalized? That’s a bit communist, isn’t it? Well no, my dear, no. The rich can cry too.
2024-07-02 16:17:21
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