Since you can’t watch ten minutes of football without FIFA boss Gianni Infantino patronizingly smiling at you like a feudal lord from his camel-haired buffalo leather chair, you might lose the joy in between. “This circus has clowns in the stands,” commented one TV commentator.
Welcoming and inviting accommodating adherents and embellishments of world football (“ambassadors”) to Qatar for millions is part of the DNA of world football’s governing body. And the painted bellies of the ex-national players are well-bred tapestries. And make the generous boss feel popular.
masters without words
FIFA is not the big house of football. But housekeeping. And, as with any apartment building, you can change them at will. “Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow, they only reap,” says Matthew (6:26). Gianni Infantino must have been born under the Raven zodiac sign.
Looking for answers, one can find further analogies to this world championship in religious scriptures. And football for many remains a kind of religion.
The host Qatari flew out without any problems. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God,” says Matthew (not Lothair). “Kingdom of God” is replaced by the word “Round 16”.
Iranians with the most daring appearance
Germans are no longer allowed to participate. Which, as in most cases, set themselves nothing more than winning the title. – Do it or don’t do it. But stop trying,” says Buddhism. Now German football is about to undergo a revolution. “Too beautiful, too bad, too stupid,” sums up the Bild newspaper. After all, Bild is the Bible of the soul of the German people.
The Iranians put on their most courageous performance by refusing to sing the national anthem out of solidarity with women protesting at home. At present, there is much suffering and many tears in their homeland. “Allah tests the strong with severe trials,” the Quran says.
But the World Cup with the desert fox Murat Yakin at stake for Switzerland will be a game without borders. Through their consistency, they entered the circle of the big ones. Now they have to leaf through the Bible. “All things are possible to him who believes,” it says.
“Learn to let go”
Christian Eriksen writes the most beautiful history of this World Cup. A year and a half ago, a Danish father cheated death in front of the world community. Although he is not with the Danes right now, he led the team to the field as captain for three games. “Every life has its own measure of pain. Sometimes that’s what causes us to wake up,” says the Bible.
The end belongs again to Gianni Infantino, who, God willing, will not be re-elected for another term. Buddhism advises him: “Learn to let go. This is the key to happiness.”
If there is a turning point after this World Cup and some major football powers riot against the governing body of world football (which is not to be expected), then it should be peaceful. “Only when a mosquito lands on your testicles do you learn to solve problems without violence.” Confucius speaks.
Not only in football it would be nice, mosquitoes would also look for a landing place in the shorts of some heads of government and despots of this world.