| There are the good, the better, the best and the | | | | Football World Cup. Argentina and just been through |
| greatest. What defines greatness? Is it talent, | | | | a coup and was under a military regime, in political |
| consistency, hard work, perseverance, integrity or is | | | | turmoil. Now not the best time to be wondering |
| it a combination of all of them? I do not think I am | | | | whether our team is doing well or not but a team, a |
| capable of answering that but is it not what we want | | | | game, united the Argentineans in support of their |
| to do in life as well. Have all those qualities, be that | | | | nation. Not a surprise that Mario Kempes led them to |
| great person. Sport also inspires a certain level | | | | a world cup victory and the nation erupted with joy. |
| discipline, when it's a team we have to function as a | | | | You do not expect that of people who had their |
| team and if it's an individual then practice and training | | | | rights revoked, but it happened. |
| is a must. A few men inspire a generation, and many | | | | There are champions and sometimes you have a |
| of them break boundaries and norms, same with | | | | feeling about them, when they do not perform there |
| sports and sportspersons. | | | | is huge disappointment but somewhere we know |
| Football for instance makes the poorest of poor | | | | that they are down but not out. This I saw in the |
| African Nations forget that the civil war, the political | | | | 1998 World Cup at France where Brazil had Ronaldo |
| unrest, the problems that plague the nation and | | | | and he was their top scorer and the best striker in |
| unites the people in supporting their football heroes. | | | | the world but he failed in the crucial finals. Everyone |
| Even in India when the Indian cricket team is playing | | | | wrote Ronaldo off, he did not perform even at the |
| well all of us seem to be a little content and there is | | | | club level. He came back in 2002 as the washed up |
| a degree of satisfaction that at least the team is | | | | former great. This time he won the golden boot and |
| doing well. We mistake it for the nation is doing well, | | | | led Brazil to victory, he never gave up. No wonder |
| maybe it is? I for one am always happy India is | | | | they call Football the beautiful game. The excitement, |
| winning (cannot help the feeling is in my blood). | | | | joy, disappointment is all part of the game and part |
| The year 1978, the place Argentina, the occasion | | | | of life itself. |