Today, many sports structures almost entirely absorb the time of our youth. They do not accompany them: they occupy them. Daily practices, games, tournaments, and constant demands for presence transform sport into unpaid labor, sustained by the promise of a dream that, in most cases, will never take shape. The goal is no longer the evolution of the human being, but the performance of the structure. ‘Being’ is reduced to ‘becoming’: becoming an athlete, becoming a winner, becoming functional.
The dogma the more you train, the better you get is thus transformed into psychological violence: a false meritocracy that destroys creativity and hollows out the game of its original meaning. The boy no longer plays for himself. He plays to please the coach, the club, the system. Every gesture is evaluated, corrected, measured. Every mistake is monitored. Free time disappears. And with it disappears the right to emptiness, to the unforeseen, to fertile boredom.... continue.
