Copa América

Between 11 June and 4 July, took place in Chile the oldest tournament for football national teams in history. The interesting thing about this is that Chile won the Copa America for the very first time, and thus it was the first international cup won by the football national team of Chile. This first title was a shot of happiness to the people, no matter age or gender, everybody all over the country came out to celebrate this historic win when Chile, always used to moral victories, finally got a title.

Although an event like this makes most of people happy, this may cause bad consequences, principally because of the announcement of the president about a big financing, whit help from the state, to build a bigger and better training center for Chilean national football team, despite all the renovations that were made to actual trainiin center, Juan Pinto Duran, which has very good infrastructure.

It’s a shame that a big amount of money will be delivered to the football association, in detriment of many other sports which have historical worst economic conditions. Every time that Olympic Games starts, press tell us histories about desperate athletes looking for funding to participate in the Games, being forgotten by the government. Many times the savior of all this athletes is Leonardo Farkas, who put money from his pocket to finance travels and equipment of athletes.

No doubt that football just gave us a lot of happiness, may be unimaginable for many grandparents who thought they were going to die without seeing Chile won an international trophy, but I think that if the same benefits for football are given to other sports, we surely will be celebrating in Plaza Italia when we won some gol Medal in the Olympic Games, something not very common.