di Mauro Valeri
Sono diversi i mass media che hanno evidenziato come alle proteste che stanno interessando diversi paesi del nord Africa abbiano partecipato o partecipino anche calciatori, allenatori e tifosi. In Tunisia, ad esempio, già nei primi gironi della protesta contro Ben Alì, c’era stata una decisa presa di posizioni da parte dei calciatori. Tra i primi a protestare sono stati i giocatori dell’Esperance Sportive de Tunis, the most important team in the country.
front of the zany disparity between the poverty of millions of people and the salary of 70 thousand dollars a month guaranteed by the team president, Hamdi Meddeb, the new coach, Nabil Maaloula, the players have agreed on a curious but effective form of sabotage : In the game their differences Etoile du Sahel, there has been scoring five networks without resistance.
Then they decided to stop the championship, also to allow many fans (and many of the same players) to participate in protests. Solidarity with the people and the demonstrators also the coach, Rabah Saadane (former coach Algerian national), who declined to sit on the bench of Yemen with this comment: "I am grateful for the generous offer, but at this time is an insult to earn extra money while my people are starving in the streets."
An interesting North African version of the salary cap! Equally curious autoesonero of the national coach of Tunisia, Fouzi Benzi after the fall of Ben Ali. After confessing that he had agreed to coach only because forced by the dictator, benzoates leaving office, declaring: "Now that is gone, I feel free as my people." Available also no longer be used for food and circuses that panem (more and more "circus" and less bread, one might say), to which many dictators would relegate football. Appeal of the square there were the fans, especially those of the two teams in Tunis, Esperance and Club African, generally very likely to collide, but in the days of protest that have found common watchwords: as well as bread and work, have demonstrated for the "'freedom for ultras arrested, the abolition of local DASPO and preventing the introduction of (and use) smoke in the stadium" (Il Manifesto, January 26, 2011).
In Cairo, however, among the millions of protesters, were noted many red shirts of Al-Ahly, the team of the capital, which is also the most noble of the country and the entire continent. To highlight it is mainly Ultrà Ahlawy, the first group organized ultras in Egypt (it was founded in 2007), which officially joined the protests. Alessandra Cardinale, Done at The Daily of February 9, shows Assad's words, twenty, presented as "head of Al-Ahly Ultras": "The ultras are the people protesting in the streets and often we are the ones to guide our brothers and sisters (...). Who better than us knows the methods of the police? (...) The Government ha avuto sempre paura di noi perché è difficile inquadrarci ideologicamente, per questo diamo fastidio”. Accanto ai tifosi, in piazza al Cairo, come ha ricordato Stefano Boldrini su La Gazzetta dello Spot dell’8 febbraio, è sceso anche Wael Gomaa, simbolo dell’Al-Ahly e della Nazionale (e per molti considerato l’attuale miglior difensore di tutta l’Africa): “Io sono al fianco del mio popolo. In Egitto ci sono troppe ingiustizie sociali, troppa disparità tra ricchi e poveri. Bisogna intervenire e pensare anche al futuro. I nostri giovani non hanno speranze nell’Egitto attuale: dobbiamo aiutarli… Mubarak ha fatto il suo tempo: l’Egitto non può più aspettare”. "
hard to imagine similar situations in Italy, especially to see a participation of players and coaches to the problems of the country (it's actually conceivable that a Del Piero, in negotiations for his new employer - past due was € 7.5 million net in two years, ie € 312,500 per month - face a gesture of solidarity with the workers or casual Fiat of Turin!). That the future is in the hands of the ultras?
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