Between the current debate on the defeat from Brazil in France, to follow it was of a national state of the agitation, while leaning to be important to write something on the topic.
In an article writes soon after the Cup of 1970 for Him Giorno (2/1/1971), Paolo Pasolini distinguished among the" prose" whose
soccer practiced then by the Europeans and the" soccer of poetry" of the Brazilians.
But, to come back to soccer, the" prose" soccer would have gone exclusively rear to the results and would have governed by the observation to the rules of the system, while “poetry soccer” would turn all above for the capacity of every player's invention, while resulting the goal of a subversion happy of the code, and not of the optimization of the" podemas", to use the concept invented by Pasolini and nothing since repeated and that, therefore, it asks for the explanation.
For Pasolini, as well as the words that they are formed for joint of the" phonems", that are the
minimum units of the writing-spoken language. The minimum unit of soccer would be" a man who uses the feet to give a kick a bullet." There it is the minimum unit. The Brazilian
selection of 2006 didn't articulate the podemas well and it has been expired (in the convenient terms, them the possibility of the joint among the podemas is equal to the passages of the bullet among the players). The biggest symptom of this bad joint was the absence proven of kicks to goal.
Pasolini considered it in the end of 1970 was not not alone in field two teams with styles different to play, the prosaic and the poetic, but also two models different from society: the European, plastered by the rules of the system (capitalist, is understood), and the Latino-american or third-mundism, supposedly more immunized to the system and capable to affirm for the subversion of the rules.
And the one what happened in the Cup of 2006? The Brazilian selection, with basis in its tradition of previous victories and in the transformation of the Brazilian soccer in the barn of players for export in Europe, arrived in Germany with a lot of pump and converted to “prose soccer”, symbolized by technician Carlos Alberto Parreira, technician that it brought the selection to the
victory in 1994, to dedicate one soccer, forces in the place of the soccer spectacle (to use terminology used to this time to define the soccer with that made that the selection won in 94 and in a certain path it is equal to the one of Pasolini).
What would symbolize, then, the defeat of Brazil in France in the current context? Brazil of years 2000, converted to a neoliberal consensus, adapted finally to the" system" (international financy) and with a team of soccer composed better individualities and a " phenomen" that don't compose a team collectively efficient. Passively it was returned and received the goal fatal of Thierry Henry. In court, Lula is interested in the selection, once the climate created by the victory can encourage his reelection, what gives the this victory a retrograde aspect.
Different it is the debate in France where the victory of the selection is eminently progressive. In first place, we can say that multiracial France played a mixed of soccer of the prose with soccer of poetry, of soccer spectacle with soccer forces, probably in the maximal degree in that the Europeans are capable. It is precisely so this caracterize of the selection to have an expert (Zinedine Zidane) it is the son of Moslem and Algerian
immigrants, to have a black of the origin in the island of Guadeloupe, is not a soccer as European that third-mundism, now in association to the European technique. To symbolize a multiracial France, capable to integrate the immigrants, the victories of the selection assume a progressive sense and anti-racist in France, a felt makes some very applicable, mainly if we have in mind a politician's hostility as Jean Marie Le Pen to the selection on this moment. The proposition of Jean Marie Le Pen expelthe immigrants, because it takes the French works, they are dirty, they are the persons responsible for the terrorist threat. Is it now appears, therefore, the question: would it be possible champion of the world to be for without the immigrants?
Contrary to the Brazilian effort in to integrate to the system, to the individualistic attitude of the trainer and athletes, worried in to break individual and rich enough records not to have engagement, the French selection didn't have any favorable internal waitings initially. Finally, exist the engagement of Zidane in his career to conclude with a conclusion (a Large Final). This incentive is not ignoble: in end of the career, with 34 years, Zidane is motivated to make a spectacle and to let the life of sport to enter for history.