2023-10-15 06:18:22
To say that it was the most exciting game of our lives is an exaggeration, but we say it because it is a way of expressing everything. And sometimes there is nothing like a lie to tell the truth.
Like Borges when he talked regarding that map of a territory, so perfect that it would have the extension of the territory itself, I don’t know how we would narrate Los Pumas-Gales in less than eighty minutes. It was like watching a horror movie, but with a happy ending. And not because the Argentines did not do the right thing: quite the opposite. In a horror film the protagonists do not necessarily make mistakes, they are not necessarily deserving of the horrible things that happen to them.
We say a horror movie because we, viewers, saw him on the verge of terror, uttering terrifying screams, biting our fingers, closing our eyes and trembling. But the protagonists of this film besieged the monsters, bent, twisted, pressed, expelled the opponent. In that film, Matías Moroni is the one who manages to close the door before the ghost manages to get inside the house. And a few minutes later, Nico Sánchez is the one who finishes expelling them, like the character who finds a flamethrower in the attic and decides to use it.
Some time ago, Luis Tonis exemplified the eternal Argentine dealing with death with the end of the national anthem. The stanzas say: “Crowned with glory let us live, or let us swear with glory to die.” But the Argentines seem to have been wrong, and they sing: “Crowned with glory let us live. Oh, let us swear to die with glory! In this way our short history and our danger of extinction can be explained. And above all our disastrous present. We are dead on vacation, Lenin would say. And all for having misinterpreted the meaning of a verse. The Pumas materialize this misunderstanding in a positive sense: they swear with glory to die and carry out the feat of giving their all. It is something they always do, with more or less mistakes, but sometimes it pays off. Yesterday he gave up.
The technique is simple and might be extended to any area of life. We don’t know if the members of Los Pumas play thinking regarding their country or their family, God, their friends or their dogs. We would like to believe that they play for themselves, which is the most authentic and generous way of making homeland. We don’t know what they will say in front of a microphone and we don’t care. People usually say what is expected of them. It is likely that not even the players themselves have reflected on it, they probably do not even know it, but if yesterday’s game ended in victory it is thanks to each one pushing forward and protecting the one next to them. In other words: you have to become obsessed and maintain your obsession. And pass sideways in front of the open windows. And not be afraid of anyone. Although a horror movie is happening on this side. In any case, our terror must have been nothing compared to the terror that the Welsh must have experienced. Maybe it wasn’t the most exciting game of our lives, but it was very similar.
Now the All Blacks are playing. No matter what we do, they are the ones who will swear to die with glory.
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