Last night while I was making a great effort not to fall asleep at halftime of the match between Mexico and Venezuela, my congratulations to Vinotinto and all the Venezuelan brothers who are extremely happy and excited about the current football situation of their national team. A well-deserved award for a great effort.

Returning to the topic, I said that while I was waiting to see the second half and a while before too, I was looking at Twitter, we even made a couple of related and crossed comments with @dimeilaz who was suffering a little at the worst moment when the tricolors almost dominated will and, in a solitary, shot by Venezuela the ball hit the post, depriving them of an advantage that could have changed the course of the match.

I promise that now I will go to what I want to express. Browsing Twitter then I saw some posts from Mexican fans totally against my country's team, mentioning that it makes no sense to play because the tournament is rigged in favor of the albiceleste, that such a player should have been expelled, that there was a penalty not sanctioned in favor of the team. of Chile, that the goal was offside, that all the World Cups won by Argentina were ill-gotten or rigged and there is no telling how many additional helpings of hatred. Honestly, it hurt me, not so much because of the partial and malicious assessments but because of the hatred that those fans show towards us. I don't understand what wrong we have done to him to deserve that attack.

In any case, we are not angels, just remember that just a couple of weeks ago, our IndyCar driver, Agustín Canapino, was banned from a race for supporting, in part, the messages of hate that some fans who sympathize with the Titan of Arrecifes attacked Theo Purchaire for colliding with him in a rather reckless maneuver and which caused him to not be able to achieve the great race he had been developing in the final position.

Just as in that demonstration of exacerbated patriotism, there were others and not only from Argentines but, unfortunately, from many fans from all countries in the world, including people more prepared for the vicissitudes of sport and its results, such as a coach from one of the teams that are competing in the Euro Cup, who ranted against a South American referee (Argentine) because he felt harmed and blamed him entirely for the supposed error, without mentioning that the person in charge of the VAR who did not validate the penalty was European.

Hate and racism continue to be the order of the day, despite the supposed good efforts made by the sports authorities that govern the destinies of different sports throughout the world.

In general, it is the fans empowered by social networks who openly demonstrate that this problem is very far from being resolved. However, as I mentioned before, from time to time some members of the sports community, be they players, technical directors, leaders, and even journalists, show in public their private thoughts; I have already spoken about this on other occasions and I will continue to do so as long as hate continues to win over reason and perhaps one day we will understand that, despite the color of our skin, our shirt, the religion we profess or the culture we belong to, we all deserve to treat and be treated as equals.

Human beings are screwed, sport is so beautiful that we can't handle our genius and we look for a way to ruin it.