Vol. 23 No. 241 (2018)

It's time for the World Cup. It's just about winning, against all, with goals or without them, screaming and suffering, at penalties or however, with the VAR or with "Fair Play", even if it is holding the ball several minutes so no one plays.

While I eat my nails and see the game, Vincent Lombardi comes to mind, an NFL "winner", a visionary who, several decades ago and with enormous convictions, expressed one of his most remembered phrases: Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Thus the tribalism of these weeks smashes everything we have learned from teachers: rationality, reflection, equanimity, critical point of view, solidarity, empathy, the search for truth, the sense of the aesthetic. The epic overrides the ethical, in only 90 minutes.

Tulio Guterman, Manager - June 2018