It was extremely thrilling when Egypt won the African cup of nations 2010 and I felt good to have such a fit national team but a lot of questions popped into my head; are we as a society engaging in a act of displacement? Are we directing all our emotions of love, pride, hate and anger towards football because we can’t do anything about the fact that we‘ve had the same president for almost 30 years?
It’s such a good feeling to sense superiority over the rest of the continent in that field, football, but with high unemployment rates, a declining economy, a corrupted political party ruling the country and tons of other major Egyptian problems; how come a football team gets all that attention?
Is this an unconscious defense mechanism put to work whenever our team gets into a big tournament because we can’t provide good education in our schools?
It sure takes a whole lot of work and involves major risks to try to change a corrupted political system, or improve the quality of education or even clean our streets, all acts that would display true patriotism and love for this country; however all you need is a flag and a satellite connected TV set, if even that to cheer for the Egyptian national team. There is a fine line between patriotism and total stupidity and in this case, it is really showing.
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