The barbarities of the Roman arena have disappeared from the collective memory for centuries. The duels of people to death with wild animals, but also with rival people. A popular spectacle, so as not to wrong the organizer of the "games" emperor. And the story of the Colosseum, the 65.000-seat Roman amphitheater, began after Christ. And it lasted close to 400 years.
A game of physical contact and predominantly men's, at least until a few years ago, football, since now women also have the right. Strong, tough football, but protected by refereeing rules. Unsportsmanlike conduct is a dangerous game on the spot and is punished by the referee, with a yellow or red card. And because in our civilized times people can not bear to see bloodshed, in case of injury to a football player, and the slightest appearance of blood on his body, the match is stopped.
After ancient Greece, before flourishing in Europe, civilization stopped in ancient Rome. Today the Colosseum is a tourist attraction, a reality nightmarish for the savagery of the mass, the mob, before it began to "date" in the following centuries with the evolution of technology and the urbanization of public life.
Football today dominates the popular entertainment of the world. A favorite show for all social classes and for people of different cultural backgrounds. It is really worth investigating how easily and quickly football becomes the first choice of spectacle in countries and regions of the planet in which it was almost unknown just a few years ago.
The solemn confirmation that, in one sense, man has made cultural leaps, is recorded in his behavior on the court. Without exaggeration today we see crowded football fields looking like churches. A church of thousands of people and in the complete freedom of the football amphitheater will be manifested only to rejoice, to excite, to beat, not to rush, to throw objects, to demand blood from gladiators.
Arades on the occasion that tonight the matches for the "8" phase of the champions league started. I would prefer to see Liverpool-Porto. Have fun football.
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