FIFA World Cup 2014 !

[jens]

No really, I'm serious. Whenever they showed the Brazilian players they were sprouting this 'God help us' rubbish and bawled their eyes out. And seriously, if you can't take something as inconsequential as a lost football game without taking leave of your dignity, you shouldn't be in the stadium in the first place. What the heck is that all about? To me that looked a trifle unhealthy.

Well, we have to put emphatically ourselves into their positions. You have lived football all your life with your heart. This means football largely is life to you - and certainly way of making a living and earning a wage. Then you are playing for your home country at the biggest tournament. Which is not a random country, but one, which aims to win. It is not, say, Tahiti-Germany 1:7, it is Brazil-Germany. You are playing in front of your home crowd in one of the most important matches a sportsman can ever imagine.

So much training, so much preparation, so much effort put into it. It is not just playing and "oh it's only football". Maybe for amateurs, who like to kick around for fun at the weekends it would be like that. But to be a top sportsman you have had full dedication to succeed and made many sacrifices in life to reach your goals. Only for all the effort to go out of the window. I'd cry as well to be honest. You really tried hard, have put so much life and heart into it and you failed badly. This will create an emotion.

Would you watch all of your life work (including reputation) go down the drain without any emotion? Think about any job or education or anything you have gone through in your life. Something you really tried hard to be good at and succeed in. And then in a crucial moment you realized that you were a complete embarrassment. And for these guys it was in front of the whole world audience.

For these guys it was not just a game. Their lives will never be the same again. When they walk on streets, whatever, people (particularly their compatriors, Brazilians) will view them differently. At least many will do. They will be looked at as losers. It will be a different kind of feeling to live with. But I think only truly famous people, who get attention everywhere, can undestand, what this means.