Experts say that the Mexico vs. Argentina match held last weekend has been the most watched television product in the history of Mexican television. They also agree that it will be difficult to break that record in a short time, and the only option for this is that the Mexican team, through a true miracle, manages to advance to the next round and face a great team again in one day and at one time. comfortable for viewers.
The very high audience generated is directly related to the great expectation and illusion that the Mexican team generates in a large sector of the population. This relationship is extremely strange, if we analyze the very few satisfactory results that our national teams have achieved. Particularly in their participation in the World Cup, our senior team has registered practically the same results throughout its history.
We find it strange that our team fails in every World Cup. We suffer a periodic disappointment, to be exact, every 4 years. However, why if we always do the same thing, do we expect different results? Same recipes, same results or worse. We hope that by chance we save a penalty or score a goal that generates a point. Any win based on sparks will not be sustainable. Successes are built day by day, over the years, coming and going, struggling to find areas of opportunity to reach a peak of performance. Mexican soccer has advanced, but it has not modified elements that keep it deprived of elite competitiveness and professionalism.
Whoever the coach is and whatever the venue for the event, if the necessary changes are not generated and people work in silence for years to build a disciplined, educated, self-sacrificing and persevering Mexican soccer team, sustained victories will not come.
Why a selective that has us used to defeat, generates us so much illusion? Why do we think ours is yet to come? Why do we think it’s our turn? Questions for the sociologists and psychologists who accompany us. The audience record says a lot about us, about how we think and how those of us who choose to watch the game with the illusion of savoring satisfaction feel. Hopefully in the future audience records will be broken based on the record of a series of triumphs as a result of the effort that causes us accurate expectations, and not castles in the air that we build from time to time. My grandfather didn’t see them win, neither did my father, neither did I, I hope my son does.