Ferguson against the colors boots
Who more or who less, somewhere here we all know about many peculiarities that there always has the English soccer, peculiarities from our perspective, skylight. One is the figure of the manager in many teams, accustomed to having voice and vote in all the decisions that they affect to the club and not only to the decisions merely tactical. Another peculiarity is the special attention that often is given him to small gestures or considered elements of symbolic character.
Under the cover of these two traditions, Ferguson has decided to intervene in the esthetics of the young players of his club, forcing the juvenile ones of the Manchester United to seem only blunt to the traditional style, that is to say, where the black outstanding figure prevails. The black was prevailing in the boots of the soccer players up to the appearance of the white boots in the middle of the nineties: Marco Simone was the first soccer player that I remember with white boots and soon Alfonso Pérez Muñoz popularized them in Spain. Some years later, the scale of colors was extended up to the current pantones sample in the boots of the soccer players the length and breadth of the planet, in such a way that what formerly was hurting at sight, now is already the habitual and enclosed thing more appellant.
For Ferguson nevertheless the color of the boots has adopted a symbolic character, a sample of individuality and of not admissible swaggering for him in the low categories. There comes to one to the memory the chapter of the Simpson in which gray uniforms are imposed in the school and these do that the pupils are more disciplined, tidy and conformist, while when the uniforms return of colors because of an accident, the disorder and the rebellion explodes between the students.
Alarmed perhaps why do the youngest already adopt from the formation school the gestures of some of his idols, often turned into stars of footbridge or esthetic icons, Ferguson recaptures measurements of the style Daniel Passarella with the Argentine selection, when it imposed on his players to take the short hair if they wanted to be summoned and this supported with a foot out of the albiceleste big Fernando Redondo. The surest thing is that not even Ferguson has personally at all either against the boots of colors or Passarella against the long hair – the Argentinian played in that selection of 1978 which players were standing out for his long hairs – but both cases have to do with the discipline, the commitment with the team over the individuality and the self-control.
Route | The Guardian
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