I came home yesterday already drained, my mood got no uplifting favours from the newspaper sports section. It did has something to do with football dubbed the "beautiful game", (let me stress that) it had nothing to do with Chelsea losing the Carling Cup to Spurs or finding out that there's a rumoured bust-up between Chelsea skipper John Terry and Coach Henk Ten Cate.
Just for your information, those were the BIG headlines in yesterday's papers. What caught my attention that really gripped my heart was a small column to the right that wrote "Fan losses hand after bomb explodes". The first impression I had was that it was those usual happenings in mostly Latin based countries who always throw tear-gas and flares during matches both inside and outside the stadium, except this time it was a BOMB. This fella perhaps was just an unlucky man, who did nothing and just got blasted.
This dawn upon me, that once dubbed the beautiful game for its atmosphere with families attending to watch the game, little children watching their idols play for their clubs. All those days are long gone into thin air. Not just that, even the days where players would play for the sake of pride of their club and country are gone to. That is because football has become a multi-million dollar spinning industry, there's so much money at stake. That's how corruption entered and brought the Italian League nearly to its knees.
Back about the BOMB. This happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This man, Ivo Costa aged 62 had his right arm amputated by doctors. WHY? at what cost? He basically tried to toss away a home-made bomb thrown by rival supporters, unfortunately for him. It was an unsucessful attempt and one that will haunt him for the rest of his life. The bomb exploded in his arm, perhaps some would say that he should consider himself lucky that he's alive. Well, if a terrorist had his arm chopped off, people will would say he deserved it, cause those hands probably had innocent blood all over it.
In my opinion, the reason why he picked up the bomb is a very unselfish deed (not to mention a high risked one). He could have easily just ran to somewhere else and let it blow, which probably would have blown up in the face of bystanders who did not realized about it. He can count himself as a very unlucky man, and probably that's the last football match he'll ever be attending (I think). Those rivals fans should really be ashamed of themselves, what is it that's so much at stake that people have to go injuring other people just because of a difference over the club they support. It's ridiculous come to think about it.
Sports regardless what game, has been seen as a way of uniting countries and people together. Somewhat how, I think that purpose has disappeared from the face of this earth. Don't even get me started on the racial abuse some players get. That's equally bad as violence.
For further info about this man : check it at Sao Paulo bomb incident
I send this man my best regards, and hope all football fans around take notice of this.
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