not just any sport.
Football is a beautiful sport. Not only because it is the most viewed sport in the world. Not only because it generates a lot of money. Not only because it's entertaining and not only because in every little corner of the world we can encounter young boys and grown men and women in love with the idea of a football spinning in the air and falling on our feet. It has the power to join continents, countries and people from every culture and context, with a common passion. All of this makes football pretty, but not beautiful. Football is beautiful, at least in my experience, because being one of the most simple sports one can play, it achieves all of this at once. It is a pure expression of the human spirit. And as every pure expression of human spirit, it has generated wars, hatred, division, pain, and sadness. But it has also paved the way for miracles. I don't trust those people who say that football is a weapon to control the masses. A weapon to numb the society and make it ad...