Footballers move in a world of Spirituality
ByFootball and the Garden of Eden? What do they have to do with each other?
Each delineates a sacred sphere of freedom and order, innocence, spirituality and justice from our everyday world of chaos, bondage, injustice and guilt.
According to Elemer Hankiss in his article
Football and Philosophy
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Yes, players move in a world of spirituality. They act according to clear, sacred rules. While in play, they are supposed to act as pure rational beings who leave behind their everyday passions and emotions, personal wishes or fears. They move in the world of pure morality and justice. The player’s world is one of justice and total impartiality; of a perfect equality of opportunity, which is never achieved in our everyday lives. Even advantages deriving from the direction of the wind are balanced. The two teams change sides at the half. When and where do we, the privileged and the underprivileged, change sides in the real world?
Elemer Hankiss is a Professor at the Institute of Sociology, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest
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Football is tight connected to fate, because no one knows wich team will win.
Maybe that’s one reason, why so many people pray to the “football god”.
Please tell me what ‘fate’ is. My view is that it is an area of human thinking where people just give up thinking and leave things to chance. This as a solution to problems has satistically as much chance of being sucessfull as any other strategy so can be thought of as wise in certain circumstances.
Football results are as much a part of ‘the great unknown’ as the direction any molecule in the universe will move in the next second. It does not deserve to be called a religion becasuse of the unknown element to it.