It will also be true that football, since salaries and salaries circulating stratospheric and out of this world, is no longer the mirror of reality, but when extraordinary events happen like what happened yesterday in Bundesliga, then you have to take off your hat.
One can only applaud what happened during the meeting Monchengladbach-Union Berlin, won by the former 4-1, and in Paderborn vs Borussia Dortmund, won by the seconds 6-1.
After one of his two goals that gave Monchenglad victory and third place in the standings, the young striker Marcus Thuram, son of the legendary Lilian, former world champion with France and flag of Juve, he knelt down and dedicated the net to George Floyd, the African American citizen killed by the police in Minneapolis. Borussia Dortmund players did the same, Sancho e Hakimi after their goals against Paderborn. “Justice for George Floyd,” read one of their banners.
"Dear Thuram junior, you have your father's civic sense," wrote former Argentine champion Hernan Crespo who played for Parma with Thuram his father on social media.
Thanks Thuram and thanks Sancho and Hakimi, champions on the field but above all champions of civilization. In due proportion, their gestures remind us a bit of the fists raised to the sky on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics by the sprinters Tommie Smith e John Carlos who, after winning the medals on the 200 floors, wanted to praise Black Power and the inalienable rights of black citizens. This is how sport becomes a teacher of life.
