This early evening, I went for shopping in a mall in Kuta. When I drove along sunset road, there was unusual quieter traffic. I was thinking, it must because of the final match of Euro Cup 2012, Spain against Italy. I guess most of people prepare for the match at 2.40 am Bali time. My imagination is clear that they usually sleep early and woke up on time of the match. Can we imagine those people put their alarm clock on time for the match and when the alarm ringing, woke up with sloppy eyes staggering to turn on their TV? I also sure they would make a cup of coffee to make their eyes wider. As soon as the game started, with enthusiastic feeling they would start yielding and murmuring to comment about their team favorite team effort.
Thinking about soccer, this kind of sport has worldwide fans without borders of age, race, national and status. There are many kind of sports but seems soccer is the most favorable sport with billions of viewers. It's seems this sport could compete with religion and ideology which gather human kind into the same view. From my point of view, the differences are, this sport brings joys and unity to feed the nature of human kind to compete in survival way to win. It's harmless compare to religion and ideology which mostly caused harm to individual or community.
I remember the motto of all sports in Latin "Men Sana in Cor-pore Sano" means in the healthy body contain the healthy mind. What does it means to us? Let's we look at a sport star in Spain soccer team for example Fernando Torres. When Spain team won the match, in front of the crowd, on TV we saw Torres took his two children to the mid field and let them running around. Some other team members also done the same. Isn't it very sweet to see the favorite star showing their love to his family? The news mentioned, most Spain soccer team take along their family into the tournament event to support them. Also mentioned by the reporter that the Spain motivation to play fiercely coming from their family support. The fans would be so contented to know the star has a healthy life style which match with the motto of all sport. Compare to Mario Balotelli with his comrade from Manchester City Rodney who recently have turbulent bad news involving prostitute? The fans would say "Oh no what is that?" even though their are stars of sport, but this bad news would not contented the fans. Do you know why? Because it is not match with the motto of all sport. They may healthy in body but not in their mind to break the heart of their love one. I surely believe, sport can be a role model for human kind to have a motto "Men Sana in Cor-pore Sano" I have an idea, to unity people in better way, sport can be the one way compare to any other way.
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