JOHN CARLIN
01/05/2011 - "Oh, do not let me go crazy! Loco, no, good heavens!".
-King Lear, Shakespeare.
The famous footballing Albert Camus, also known as a novelist and philosopher, proposes that the only really serious question is whether one should or should not commit suicide. If he were alive today, would recognize that other fundamental has emerged, also linked to suicide: Does the dome of the criteria for Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho? Or, to put it another way: Have you all fallen into madness or at the Bernabeu is a ray of light?
We do not refer to the philosophy of team play. Opting for a strategy of destruction rather than creation, pitch instead of possession, and consider that a 0-0 at home in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final is worth celebrating a goal is nothing new in the football nor irrational if one starts from the premise, the admirably humble premise-that the rival is too big and the only way to oppose it is playing as a small team.
No. We talk about Mourinho's statements after his plans for a goalless draw against Barça were twisted and his team lost 0-2. The context was a press conference, but otherwise the Torrente sector of the Madrid fans, any observer would have understood it fairly clear that this was not the name given to describe such a conference. It was an intense psychotherapy session that should have remained private, between patient and doctor, but was broadcast live to millions of people around the world.
That itself was a magnificent spectacle, scary, worth a play of Sophocles or Shakespeare or a novel by Dostoyevsky in which the hero, in an ecstasy of existential agony, crying against the universe. The "why?" will mourinhiano legend next to the helpless cries of Oedipus, King Lear and Ivan Karamazov blind to the injustice of heaven.
The particular difficulty that we face Mourinho's monologue, the mental aspect of the matter lies in the disproportion between cause and effect. Not just discovered that he had killed his father, his daughters had usurped the power that God did not exist or that, though there could not praise him because it allowed the death of children. No, no. What opened his eyes to the horror of the human condition was the red card he saw a young man named Pepe, punished by a United Nations agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the children that God has abandoned them.
face of such calamity, Mourinho had a revelation. Suddenly, he understood that life is meaningless, everything is a joke, that the world is "disgusting." But disturbed by the absolute power, was spectacularly wrong scenario. Invaded by a toxic mix of paranoia and egomania, I thought he was acting in a tragedy of epic proportions when it was a comedy with a star, again, called Pepe.
What remains to be seen now is whether the leaders of Madrid have become aware of this bizarre Actually, if you say an entity whose global image has been to football what the Rolls Royce is to automobiles or the British royal family to the aristocracy can stay with him in charge. Seniority has been passed to the farce, and if anyone believes that we are expressing an opinion or even idiosyncratic original, Take a look at British newspapers, until this week almost unconditional admirers Portuguese coach. Simon Barnes of the Times, by choosing an example, wrote that Mourinho had been revealed for what it is, "the crazy meter" that any day is in the platform and says he is Napoleon. "Madrid has fallen into the ridiculous," says Barnes, laureate and veteran sports journalist, "and the image conveyed by the club is much dumber than we saw when he failed with his previous coaches."
Is recognized in the mirror the other masters of Madrid, which Mourinho has moved? Will they do something about it? Or, contaminated caligulesca disease of the poor man with powers that have no limit, fall into unconsciousness allowing a great club to collapse toward suicide?
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