column | Looking forward like a soccer player

Friday was another night of wasting time. Only at three o’clock will the quarter-finals be played, which the football-loving Netherlands is trying to replace. Don’t count on me for that yet. I projected the image from my laptop onto the big screen so my mother, armed with a bottle of wine, could watch as the algorithm blew into my internet bubble from the couch. Lynneth Berenstein spoke to a microphone for Team USA. When I heard they were outside, I thought: ‘Bye! “They had a really big mouth from the start of the tournament.” It seems that Berenstein did not see the bear in full size on the road in the form of Spain, which could easily leave the Netherlands “bye”. Like the team she was verbally berating, looking ahead was not a fully developed gift of hers.

After Berenstein, Bubblea delivered a cinematic spectacle that opened with a flood. It turned out to be mounting sneak preview that Climate Change is currently offering in preparation for the major programme. Hawaii burned to the ground, Spain in the oven, beaches covered in dead fish. The montage ended with the message that the media should only be talking about it. There wasn’t much to argue with that, but no one is going to stay up at night playing a game of climate change against humanity.

To kill time, my mom and I played an old game: mocking the sexism of language. And sports are a richly packed playing field for this. You can fill in every sharp note. If it’s too early for alcohol, you get a point. bee one today They were still talking about women playing soccer. As if a serious program will talk about gentlemen who play football. point for me. If a woman who plays sports is compared to a man because men are the frame of reference for everything, my mother sees that right away. Top up for it. By five o’clock, the Netherlands were out of the World Cup. My mother was asleep. The bottle was empty.

The next morning, Berensten’s satirical letter had already been delivered. Gold medalist and forward Sidney Leroux tweeted that he had learned not to talk too much until you were on the gold medal podium. “Now you too, goodbye.” Berenstein was probably still biting her pillow at the time because of all the opportunities she missed, with her words and her feet.

When Ajax played Heracles in the Eredivisie on Saturday and Brian Bruby turned missed chances into art, he was compared to Berenstein on social media. In any case, she managed to do this: to be a reference point as a soccer star.

Now it’s time to advance to the semi-finals. Climate change is running through the sports media and people are seeing big mouths celebrating their bodies. Frontiers of our species, from political leaders to corporate executives, look no further than our football players and miss out on many opportunities. A climate change tweet tweeted: “Don’t worry! The pillows the vanguard will bite into are already full.”

Caroline Trujillo writer.