“Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.” — Eduardo Galeano

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.