I do not know what African people are passionate about football, but has brought the rule of the game a slight modification: when a player from Team A scores a goal against Team B, it will soon play in the Team B in exchange of a member thereof. The interest of the spectacle is so extended.
(Albert Jacquard. Primer ambiguity.
Paris, Seuil, 1989, p. 41)
So we have to still undergo the dictatorship of football for a month. More way to open his radio or his TV without being assailed by green lawns, trumpets, masked supporters, etc..
Few remarks or analysis in the press about the real situation of the host country, on the terms of street vendors around stadiums, forced to move on the cities of plates created a rush to cover up the slums. Everything in the seem and showy. Of suites (no rooms, see ...) to 500 euros a night for members of the France team. And all this against a majority of the population survives with two euros a day when everything goes well.
Billions spent to construct the stadiums and roads leading to it. From all this, there will certainly stadiums and roads but will they be maintained? The high mass
warming is underway. It has already caused at least one drama: the great-grand-daughter of Nelson Mandela (13 years) died in a car accident at the end of one of those games where the excitement is at its peak.
Upstream, multinationals have already landed South Africa on the lookout for potential benefits.
And in my neighborhood, crowds clustered around the entire flat panel cafes, cans and waste even more than usual on the square. Kids and kids who watch less than twenty disguised millionaires fighting over a ball and dream is to do the same, either to earn the same wages. Flags hanging in windows or harnessing cars. Nationalism at all costs.
Well, like Voltaire, I will cultivate my garden ...
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