domingo, 19 de maio de 2019

A VITÓRIA MAIOR DO FUTEBOL PORTUGUÊS!

                                                       

Portugal está transformado na “Babilónia dos Gentios”, de onde emerge uma descomunal  “Torre de Babel” batida e perfurada por vozearias sem nexo, furacões quase tribais e munições de artilharia pesada. É o espectáculo puro e duro, desde as medicinas nucleares, até às tragicomédias alarves da corrupção na alta finança e aos pregões embandeirados das eleições europeias.
 Mais avassalador, porém, é o ‘tsunami’ de tinta  que irrompe dos tapetes verdes dos estádios. Tinta, gritos, espasmos, neuroses, foguetes e lágrimas, enfim, trovões e truões que põem este país em pânico, mais que em sentido. O rei-futebol arrasa tudo, ultrapassa a léguas todos os debates sobre a Europa, a Economia, a Saúde, o Ambiente.
Talvez nem valesse a pena prestar ouvidos à barafunda irracional que, sobretudo fora das quatro linhas, o futebol provoca. Só o faço para destacar neste momento a amplitude das declarações condensadas nos últimos parágrafos deste texto.
Quem se debruça, mesmo que por instantes, sobre o fenómeno “futebol” bem depressa se dá conta de que estamos perante um sério “caso de estudo”, em virtude das emoções, cargas explosivas, desvios, “rugidos”, ameaças, esgares - tudo manifestações exteriores de uma esquizofrenia colectiva que não conhece fronteiras. Os olhos não mentem porque é de todos os dias o frenesim paranóico com que se apresenta o futebol. E o mais sintomático é a enorme bola de fogo que se forma em redor da bola de futebol. Primeiro, são os “homens de preto”, enxovalhados, despidos e assados na praça pública. São os comentadores sem freio, “doutorados” em bola que discutem até aos dentes o milímetro mais adiantado ou mais atrasado do jogador – um milímetro maior e mais palmar que as línguas eriçadas dos quatro ou cinco analistas. O mais ‘divertido’ é quando são os políticos profissionais que, em vez de tratarem dos problemas do país, se assentam nos cadeirais das tertúlias televisivas… Há também os “ódios velhos” entre nortistas e sulistas, fisgas estrábicas entre as cores deste contra aquele. Juntam-se as tribunas e os tribunais das federações e conselhos disciplinares, os juízes de Direito mais apedrejados que os juízes do rectângulo. E no meio deste 'manicómio' a céu aberto, pergunta-se: Onde é que anda a bola, o desporto, alguém os viu?... Mas falta ainda o “deus supremo” que incendeia a paisagem galáctica do futebol: o dinheiro, as luvas, as golpadas -  os milhões (neste banco não há milhares) e os biliões dos campeonatos, dos artistas (há quem lhes chame os novos gladiadores do Império) as tentativas de branqueamento e fuga ao fisco. E lá vem a mesma toada batida: Onde é que anda bola no meio de tudo isto, onde é está o desporto?...
Está patente no mercado nacional a inflação saturante do futebol, a violência dos canais televisivos que, em certos dias, massacram o espectador sem que este tenha o mínimo hipótese  de opção. Foi muito clara e assertiva a opinião, revelada num recente programa, de quatro jornalistas estrangeiros, correspondentes em Portugal, criticando a obesidade do futebol na nossa comunicação social, em contraste com a sóbria programação nos ‘media’ dos respectivos países.
No entanto – e é esta a nota dominante do texto de hoje – hão-de ficar em letras de ouro nos futuros anais do futebol português as eloquentes palavras do técnico vencedor da Taça da Liga quando, no auge celebrativo do grande feito, assim falou aos seus gloriosos atletas:
“Esta vitória da reconquista é importante. Mas nas nossas vidas e na  nossa sociedade há coisas mais importantes que o futebol, a nível político, económico e a nível da saúde. Se nós pusermos a mesma ambição e a mesma determinação na solução destes problemas teremos de certeza um país melhor”.
Nunca ninguém falou assim neste país. Talvez seja esta a maior vitória de todo o campeonato. Oxalá que a sua mensagem seja a “Laje” e o alicerce de um novo projecto para o Desporto em Portugal. Bem haja!

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Martins Júnior 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