...And, not to lose a habit...

Fuck FIFA!

FIFA is a monster, a curse in this beautiful planet we call Football (and aliens call soccer). It is a leech, a parasite, that sucks life dry and destroy its reason for being.

FIFA is an authoritarian juggernaut, a bureacratic, obese and extremely fiddle taskmaster, and we must dance to its rules. That change whenever FIFA wants it. So, if for 30 or 40 years the Toyota Cup was considered the World Cup for clubs, now Blatter says that only the World Cup of Clubs under his administration are valid. The FIFA is a dissonant plutocracy of inconsistent plutocrats. A machinery trapped in its own megalomania.

Fuck FIFA.

And that is that.

Fuck Zenit

This is one of the first things I wanted to talk about, and that is why the idea of the blog came around.

FUCK ZENIT!

Actually, fuck the whole bunch of them, all those Russian and Eastern European new fascists, from Zenit to the New Bolshevik party. Yes, y'all had something that called itself communism and it sucked. Now capitalism fucking sucks. Question is, what black and brown people had to do with it? That was your own shit, clean it up yourselves.

For those unfamiliar with Zenith and why I'm so angry with them, I little recap. During the UEFA cup earlier this year, Zenit was almost disqualified when, during a game against the Olypique de Marseille, their fans started shouting racist insults to the black player of the Marseille. Also, I'm pretty sure the asshole up in the picture was on that game too. Later on, Dick Advocaat, the dutch coach of Zenit, was quoted saying: "I would like to hire anybody, but the fans don't like black people." The repercussion was very bad on Advocaat, but he was only stating the facts.

With poverty running rampant in the Third World and Neo-liberalism making everything a commodity that can be purchased and sold, many countries have considerably heightened a new export: people. While the export and import of labor is not a new phenomenon under capitalism, the heights which it has grown it stupendous.

As far as soccer, about 8,000 people leave Brazil a year to became players in another countries. We hear about the Ronaldinhos and Patos but we don't hear about the mass of players that every year leave their home country, some of them as young as 12, 13 years old, to play in places like Greeland, Qatar and Russia. We barely hear about what these people go through, like the Brazilian player in Russia that had to endure people spitting on him in the street and being refused service in many restaurants (I'll tell that too, it wasn't because of bad performance).

Soccer is major business. But is also a major popular passion. We cannot stand as it becomes a vehicle for the Right to inflame racial hatred and conservatism.

Soccer and Politics

Soccer and radical politics have a long history together. You can read all about by doing some research. This blog is to talk about soccer and radical politics today.

There is a lot to talk about.