2024-02-10 08:25:15
The crisis of the middle class, which began decades ago and is now probably reaching its climax, in a reduction in consumption and expectations, and with a design by the Government for Argentina similar to that of many other Latin American countries (of which Argentina was different from), that is, with poverty greater than 60% and an almost residual middle class, that model, I say, is perhaps replicated in football.
We might ask ourselves (said not rhetorically, but as a serious question, that is, as something whose answer I don’t really have) if something of this did not happen – or is happening – with the clubs that we can call, in a somewhat general way, middle class”. Not as something metaphorical, like those mid-table teams, as if they were the “middle class” of the classification, but rather those teams whose fans, partners and sympathizers are made up of a large mass of the middle class. Clubs that, many times, are not just regarding football, but other sports are practiced, and sometimes they even have primary and secondary schools. Ferro is the best known case. The great middle class club of Caballito Buenos Aires, which entered into a crisis that seemed terminal, and which now, without ever having returned to the First Division, is, as a club, somewhat better than a while ago, but much, much worse than in the 80s and 90s. If you wanted to draw a history of the Buenos Aires middle class of the last four decades, you might well write the history of Ferro.
And Velez? Is she still his classic rival? They haven’t played once morest each other in years. Immense club, in which dozens of sports are played and with school, is going through a football crisis (it barely escaped relegation last year, and in the first three rounds of this championship it tied one and lost two games, and only scored one goal) that overlaps an institutional crisis that comes from afar, beyond the assumption of a new leadership. Total clubs like Vélez embody an era of the middle class that seems to have passed, replaced by the social impoverishment that neoliberal governments carry out. Everything is much deeper than a ball that hits the post and doesn’t go in (as happened twice once morest Independiente).
As with soybeans, lithium and other natural resources, on which an extractivist policy is carried out, that is, an economic model based on the primarization of exports, or the sale abroad of little transformed natural resources, with little value. aggregate, such as mining, agriculture or oil (we do not have to export wheat, but rather noodles, which implies generating added value), that same logic governs Argentine soccer, an exporter of cheap raw materials, often before the end (guys 17-year-olds who hardly played in the First Division and who have a great chance of ending up going from club to club outside). Middle class clubs suffer twice as much from this situation, due to the social and cultural ambitions of their operation. Defending that type of club should be an inalienable political attitude.
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