2011-07-29

Oh, Football!

There is that something that seems to hover between absolute stillness and exploding action as far as football is concerned. You would have seen images on National Geographic of a cheetah just before it launches into a blurred attack on an unsuspecting prey.

Well, Football is all these and more! Where else, other than in boxing, can a man see such explosive action as the ball is teased, cajoled and shot past opponents with military precision? And if you are watching it at home, you have an uninterrupted view from ‘right behind the camera’. As long as the referee doesn’t catch you, tripping the opponents, pulling them back, kicking them on their shins is all fair game. It’s certainly not for people who are looking for special needs teaching jobs or want to sip a martini and follow rules. The ball needs to get past the goalkeeper into the goalpost. And anything goes. Period.

You have to see a Messi or a Ronaldinho weave their magic to appreciate the sheer magic of this game. Heck, it’s almost a religion in Brazil. You almost feel that anyone caught not participating in the fervor, is at grave risk of being imprisoned for crimes against humanity!

Others might root for wrestling, tennis or cricket. But that seems terribly tame when you consider the explosive energy on display as the ball is passed to team members with a clinical precision.

A penalty kicks can have 40,000 fans sit in pin drop silence as they wait with bated breath for the outcome of one blinding kick. Half the spectators rise up as one a split second later screaming their lungs out as the ball blurs past the goalkeeper. And if it misses, the others do the same!

There is passion, strategy, planning, scheming and big money at play here.

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