Clubism in times of polarization – 10/02/2024 – Juca Kfouri

Exaggerated clubism has existed since two teams entered the field to play the first football game.

When it was mixed with nationalism it got even worse, because rivalries in other fields turned into enmities in the fields where the ball was played.

This is how Planeta Bola has always lived, and new forms of intolerance have emerged over time, stimulated by the emergence of organized fans, for the good of the beauty of the shows and for the bad in the violent confrontations between opponents who have become enemies.

The new communication platforms have exacerbated hostilities by releasing the idiocy that was ashamed to appear and that today manifests itself without shame, protected by the cloak, if not of anonymity, of the difficulty in being legally controlled.

What we see in politics with preaching of the worst kind, by groups that hate democracy and use it to try to extinguish it, also happens in the sports environment.

Rivals would love to see the death of their opponents, blind to the fact that one feeds off the other.

Biceps fans who are much more active than their neurons exude stupidity through antisocial networks with the satisfaction of happy donkeys.

Well-researched reports that reveal a club’s ills are attributed to the bias of those who published them.

Even sensitive characters, exemplary in their jobs, slip on the banana skin of clubism and commit injustices that don’t make them look good in the photo.

Dear Marcelo Adnet slipped.

He who, in February 2020, gave a courageous interview to Ivan Finotti, in this Sheetand said that “the press was not made to put a hand on the head”, ridiculed and exposed the reporter Rodrigo Mattos, from UOL, because the journalist asked the coach of the Brazilian team if the allegations involving striker Luiz Henrique with manipulation of results didn’t bother him.

Luiz Henrique is a player for Botafogo, the team of journalist and exceptional comedian Adnet.

He who, in the same interview with Sheethit the nail on the head when he said that “to act and criticize anyone, you need to have courage. The journalist too, he left a place of comfort and is taking a lot of beating. He is suffering disproportionate, undemocratic and often criminal pressure” , handed over for free, without a shred of reason, Mattos’s face to Botafogo fanatics on anti-social networks.

And he also said that UOL was a club supporter, as if a vehicle of such size would be concerned with pursuing a football club. Well, dear Adnet!

If he was capable of such a slip, and he will certainly have regretted it when he saw the consequences, imagine what those who don’t have the slightest commitment to their own biographies do.

For such Boeotians, those who reveal wrongdoing or criticize a, b or c are anti a, b or c, by definition.

Red-black journalists are prohibited from criticizing black and white people, much less the red-black people themselves, because, obviously, influencers and fanatics understand journalism bullshit.

But what is the importance of all this when the world finds itself grappling with religious fanaticism, thirsty for money and power, and the terror imposed on the Middle East by Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and Israel?

Cults are uncontrollable.

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