There is no other reason for this folder to exist than to bring sports to school
Anna Moser is a sure shot for the Sports Ministry and not just because she’s the first former female athlete to hold the position since Pele. Because he founded and headed an institute called Sports and Education.
There is no other reason for this volume to exist than to bring exercise into the school, to combine knowledge of the body with knowledge of the classroom.
The first to open this idea was my friend, master and neighbour, Juka Kfoury. He was the first man invited to be Minister of Sports by Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Juca says – and the FHC writes – that he responded negatively to the invitation on the grounds that there was only one man whom João Havelange respected, who would not overstep his bounds and would not go directly to the President of the Republic: Pele.
I remember the despair of Rita de Cascia Nevado, Retina, Juca’s secretary in the Playboy editorial office, not knowing what to say to the reporters, who asked why the FHC was at the Playboy and Placar director’s house, one morning in the spring of 1994.
Rita denied all information about the meeting, until Jukka told her to always tell the truth.
Pelé became a minister and passed the law that ended the enslavement of soccer players, which is erroneously attributed to the subordination of stars to businessmen. The player won his release.
It is a sin that football did not teach him what to do with his freedom, which caused the immediate change of master. The agent entered the club and left. Another reason why Anna Moser is the ideal maid. It combines sports and education.
An old skank song says, to abolish the Brazilian caboclo slavery, education is on the one hand and money on the other. For the football star, they only gave the second option. For an Olympic athlete, many times not even that.
Poor you if you think money is worth more than culture. There are reasons to have a Ministry of Sport in a country with 27 federations for each method. It will be up to Anna Moser to determine sports policy. It can help develop high-performance athletes, but the priority is to spread the practice across the country. You don’t make a sports intellectual by bringing up the biggest events, which is a misconception about Lola’s early years.
Evolution comes from daily exercise. If 207 million people had the sport in their daily lives, there would be thousands of champions. Even more so if they are not starving. This will be the task of Anna Moser’s bag. Football is also an Olympic sport. But in this case, there will be an important role for President Lula.
Like Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s right-wing prime minister, she was convinced that football could create jobs, wealth and taxes, and authorized an effort to end the international shame of hooligans and turn it into British pride in the Premier League. Brazil needs the same movement.
In this case, contrary to what Juca Kfoury told Fernando Enrique Cardoso, it is not João Havelange who needs to run over the minister in order to speak with the president. It is the president who, together with the minister, needs to tell the CBF that it no longer accepts a lethargic Brazil in such a strategic matter.
Sport and education will go hand in hand with Anna Moser.
Football, the president’s passion, needs to put an end to politics and can once again become a national pride.
Football country must be reborn.
The end of the year is always hopeful. Let it be from the Ministry, I am the Minister of Sports and Education.
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