Maradona also did good things.

I am reading, days later, about Maradona's death. I honestly believed it was done to distract, or to please Neapolitans, or to console them for being led by a pathological narcissist during a pandemic. But the thing is going on for a long time, and so since dogs and pigs write about Maradona, I can too.

For one thing, Maradona was not a great sportsman. He was a great footballer, they tell me, but the word "sportsman" doesn't just mean those who practice a lot of sport. The word sport also indicates a series of values, so much so that expressions such as "taking it sportily" and others are used. Did Maradona embody this kind of values ​​in your personal life?

No.

I could mention her frequentations as Camorra fans, her addiction to cocaine, her attitude towards a real Harem of women (feminists, where are you when you need anything? Ah, right. You don't need a shit anymore) and others, first of all his contempt for the rules.

All attitudes that are completely incompatible with the values ​​of sport, especially since we give sport an educational value , which requires athletes to be an example in some way.

The fact that this person is a model explains very well why thousands and thousands of Neapolitans took to the streets without masks, during a pandemic, in complete disregard of laws and rules, and without the sheriff of the poor doing anything. They are perfectly in line with the example of their champion.

But if I say this, everyone comes to tell me "look you're wrong, Maradona did this and that". Oh sure. And Hitler did the highways, and Mussolini did good things too.

Okay, I recognize it: Maradona has also done good things.

And since this is also said of Mussolini, it is not surprising that the sports press think the same way. Sure, you are a proud friend of underworld scum that dissolves children in acid, but you won the championship. Mussolini also did good things, didn't he?

There is a particular reason why the world of football is so fascist. After the war, the party system divided everything. Schools, universities, trade unions, RAI, IRI, and all that. Those of the MSI said they were out of these games because they were small and marginalized, but it was not true. They too had received their piece of status: a school called ISEF, plus CONI.

They were small prey, which no one smoked even, (at the time football did not pay much and the ISEF was the school of the "not too awake") because in the first decades after the war Italy was busy with other matters.

But this allowed the fascists to militarily occupy the entire management of sport, bringing it closer to the military world, and many other trifles. Then sport ends up in the spotlight, and clearly pleasures come like "but they are four lesbians" [referring to soccer players ( https://www.google.com/search?ei=g-7CX6vzEbmSwPAPyoG3cA&q=calcio+femminile+basta+ are ++ four + lesbians + statements ) and more.

Everything happens because, essentially, the institutions of Italian sport are still a fascist fiefdom, they have been for 80 years now, and therefore that is the air you breathe. And it is the air that permeates sports journalism, where if you are "black" you are favored. And this also explains why no sportsman in Italy does any coming out: when you live in a completely fascist environment, you lose the desire to do so.

It should not be surprising, therefore, if in saying that Maradona was not an exemplary sportsman (because he was the first to betray the values ​​of sport), one hears the answer "Maradona also did good things": it is part of the apologetic dialectic of fascists. They say it about Mussolini, and by instinct, as a reflection, they say the same thing about any of their idols who are criticized.

And since football, like the rest of sport, has no use other than to propagate certain values, one wonders what sense does it have that Italian sport has always been in the hands of a clique of fascists.

Then I will be told that Maradona and Che Guevara, that Maradona and Fidel Castro, and therefore Maradona could not have been a fascist. In reality, almost all the fascists will calmly tell you that Mussolini was "more left than the left", and all the joke that accompanies his apologetics. But I would like to point out that the values ​​of sport are also Olympic values. That is, values ​​of peace. How to exalt a guerrilla fits with Olympic values ​​only the fascists know, but let's say it's a good fig leaf. One wonders what Che Guevara would have thought of a billionaire who associates with gangsters, but considering the fact that Che Guevara overthrew an entire regime of billionaires who associated with gangsters, the answer in my opinion is obvious. And you wouldn't like it.

You can also tell me what you want about how good he was at playing football, but honestly, my answer remains the same. We speak of the same reasoning as those who say “Mussolini also did good things”, only that you changed the name of the execrable character.

“Maradona also did good things”.

And that tells you a lot about who he was.