Indulging in my favorite past time: Sizing up my surroundings...amidst full sunshine, blue skies, and gorgeous greens...and thinking about that ball...
>>>:::://///^^^Planet Earth |||||>>>????
I became a futbolista as a result of being a vertically challenged 12 year old, and not making basketball tryouts. Kickabouts with my cousins.prior, but otherwise there were no girls' soccer teams of any age at my public school so it meant reluctantly joining a boys' team. Thankfully there were 3 of us girls. Adolescent angst et al, it was a very different time, and just as awkward being a kid. But suffice to say... if it weren't for futbol, I probably would NOT have survived...
#BECAUSE
Futbol is that COAT of MANY COLORS ... THAT beautiful game- a patch-worked technicolor fabric
that welcomes the masses.
IT's many moving pieces with a blessed ball - & otherwise an intricate pattern of potential (t)angles, it resembling THE OBVIOUS in the Jamaican motto:
#OUTOFMANYONEPEOPLE
When people come together for even ONE GOAL anywhere from 45 minutes to 90+ at a time... it's prose especially
when countries and some teams can't even handle basic communications.
BUT when strangers come together like instruments to orchestrate a magnum opus
dancing to the beat of their own drums
#MAKINGBEAUTIFULMUSIC
...
a crunch factor
a
fever fueled dance fever amidst sunshine and shadows?
#POETRY
In the remotest of the Amazon to the beaches of Brazil with those who don't consider themselves soccer players they have skillz. Amongst the poorest of Haiti, with a questionable site of their next meal, yet the eyes of their children burn bright with its infectious fury. Between pickup games, league games, aspiring to find teams of many kinds just in life itself, and yet meeting fanatics who have never played a day in their lives, but have locally supported their team for 30+ years, and are perhaps the rowdiest folks in the stands...
#WHY
FUTBOL has broken the confines of class / gender / age / nationality / race ...
IT is a tribe its own-A FURY if not FEVER that is greater than just one club, nation, team and sport.
It can be spiritual patchwork,
and proves teamwork makes dreams work.
Maybe cuz that there are multiple ways to stare @ that beautiful ball
realizing it also happens to look like our gorgeous planet
And yet has so much potential to grow on...
Ode to OUR beautiful game...
(>_<)*** Wendy
"Football is the ballet of the masses."
- Dmitri Shostakovich
#fortheloveofutbol