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It's not strange, come on... among team sports, soccer and volleyball are among those where individual technique plays a significant role in the dynamics of the game and the outcome. I find them more enjoyable precisely because of this pronounced "individual" component.

NES I love football, but it's not my favorite sport. I wanted to emphasize a few other things that I have reiterated. If you read carefully, you would find out that I play badminton and have practiced volleyball and squash at high levels. Football is a team sport where individuality is highlighted and crucial for the outcomes of the match. In rugby, it's much less so. There's also much less individual technique and a lot more organization.

A hello to LAROCK. I'm already buzzing for Tuesday. Just imagine the joy of kicking that crap of Ibra out of the Champions.

The idiot is you, DREAMAX65, who didn't understand a damn thing of what I wrote. Who ever talked about soccer? I practice something completely different, you fool, re-read my posts... assuming you're capable of understanding.

hehehe ... thanks Carlo. What particularly astonishes me is the "irrational" response of the public, of the masses, to the dictates of the media. This is both an interesting and concerning aspect, and it's just one of the more innocuous examples of the conditioning power of the media and the high degree of receptivity of the Italian cattle. Not of those who truly love rugby. I hope I've been clear once and for all.

No NES, I criticize (but am I sure I've read it?) the pointless media mechanism that brought 80,000 to the stadium. Read my posts too. I don't know rugby well, but it's not like I ignore the basic rules, and I argue the reasons why I don't like it as a true lover of sport in general, as someone knowledgeable and practiced in sports quite different from football (which I love). I even hope that rugby takes hold on bases quite different from those that filled the Meazza stadium. In Italy, football is predominant, and that's not good. I know enough about rugby to say that it is a physical sport, where strength and organization are much more important than individual technique. And I don’t like this at all; of course, tastes vary. Can I say this without offending anyone? And I believe (it's the third time I'm saying this) that such characteristics (unity, organization) do not particularly suit our nature. We excel where flair, improvisation, individuality, cleverness, and talent are needed. With this, I hope that one day we can "introduce" those positive values that rugby brings with it into our society, although I strongly doubt that this will happen.

And then I can't help but respond to post 78 from STOOPID, whose nickname is clearly a case of "nomen omen."

You wrote something outrageous that offends common sense: "The most powerful transformations also happen based on a state of unconsciousness." The collective unconsciousness is at the root of the worst atrocities in human history. It is the essential condition for the existence of regimes and dictatorships, as history and the present should teach us. Lies, ignorance, and unconsciousness are the fertile ground upon which to build mass control. The less you know, the more I control you, and I wonder what powerful transformation could ever occur if the collective consciousness is altered or nonexistent.

Dictatorships have always been established thanks to the scientific creation of a state of collective unconsciousness, and Berlusconism (which is a bloodless dictatorship) is present today to prove it. So there is nothing to be happy about when a mass of people can be manipulated so easily, even when we’re talking about an innocent rugby match from which I take the opportunity to reflect on these dynamics.

To ISIDE in post 85, I respond that at least at the concert of Vasco, Pausini, and Zucchero, there are people who at least know them and (unfortunately for those who have never tried to look beyond their own noses) like them. It’s not pleasant, but the short circuit that brought the crowd to rugby is worse, in my opinion. To all the others, thank you, dissenters and non-dissenters alike.

In my opinion, and I'm responding to CARLOCIMMINO, it is rooted only in minor realities. I have nothing against rugby, even though I don't like it, despite the deliberately exaggerated tones. As I wrote in previous posts, it is a game that is in fact disconnected from the Italian nature. In fact, we've never had a decent national team (which should be an expression of the movement), and to put one together, we often had to rely on naturalized players and expatriates. I love sports and would be happy if people took an interest in it driven by very different motivations. In this case, it doesn't seem that way to me, and I am ready to bet (but I hope I'm wrong) that we will always have a crappy national team, a reflection of a niche movement. It was an "event" induced by the media and received by the usual Italian naïveté, but I repeat, I hope to be proven wrong one day.

Nice speech, stoopid. It seems to me that here with us this recklessness doesn't really lead to great results, as I pointed out in the review. It's quite the opposite; awareness generates change, and in Italy, we make a proper effort to ensure there's no deep consciousness of anything at all. I completely disagree with you; how can you say such things with a criminal prime minister who controls TV and newspapers??? There’s very little selective and virtuous in recklessness as I understand it.
See you tomorrow, now I'm off to play badminton (for real!)
Bye

What a stubborn obsession, mercy!!!