Soccer – World Cup

 

Brazil is known as the soccer country. Many awesome players from the past started off their careers in Brazil, however, the really good ones move on to European teams so as to increase their income. While some of them increase their income, others also increase their egos and then when they come to play a World Cup match, they forget that they're playing for the sake of playing and not just for the money that they're making. I do not have to state names because everybody knows what I think about one of our players that the only thing he does is fall down or get hurt.

It's World Cup season out of season, end of the year, Christmas is approaching, the school year also ending - so much to do so much to do - and the World Cup is underway. Funny how people get together to cheer for a nation and it is so important to win the game. The traditional shirt is yellow and green or green and yellow, whichever way you prefer to say it, however, for four years this shirt has been attached to the horrible government that we are under. I myself do not have the courage hitherto to wear my yellow and green soccer shirt to watch a match. There are blue and white ones, too. I just wear an army green T-shirt and blue and yellow accessories to represent the Brazilian flag.

Although the elections were fair and democratic, the people who follow the government or better yet the president who's on his way out, praise him as if he were a myth. I've been thinking about this recently and I can't understand how people believe his lies and I'm not just saying that to say it out of spite. You just have to look around. There are more homeless people everywhere; prices at the supermarket have skyrocketed and I'm not talking about special products that are always expensive, I'm talking about the everyday rice and beans that people need to eat. It's hard for me to accept the fact that the people who believe in this president, who's on his way out, do you not see what's happening around in their own cities, in their own neighborhoods.

These blind followers blame everything on the government that was or shall I say, the president who will start his government as of January 1^st, 2023. Hopefully this situation in the country will start to get better, I do realize that it's going to take a lot of work and the president who is on his way out of office is not going to go so easily; he has disappeared from his social medias and even from the cameras. In addition to not even taking place in the transition phase from one government to the other.

Nonetheless, it is the World Cup and everybody is just happy to cheer for our country. It's as if there is no problem going on; as if there's no COVID and who cares if the numbers are rising large groups of people are getting together to cheer on the soccer team; close together and hugging each other with no masks on and just helping the numbers rise. But, of course, what is important is that Brazil wins the World Cup. The rest does not matter.

 Written: December 8, 2023

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