Roger Federer - the exception to the rule
Neither do I play tennis nor am I a tennis fan, but the phenomenon Roger Federer is worth a comment on this blog. This young man appears to be not only a fine technician and a complete athlete, he brings to the world of sports a rare blend of concentration, calm and fairness that demands admiration.
On the occasion of Roger Federer's victory in the Australian Open, Osservatore Profano makes an exception to his rule of continuous questioning and criticizing and extends his congratulations to this extraordinary sportsman.
3 comments:
The ATP wants to remove all the blood, sweat and tears of this sport by fining tennis players for cursing and other "rude" behaviour.
Roger Federer seems like a showpiece for the new clean tennis.
I always found that concentrated, calm and balanced character of Roger Federer a little bit frightening. Like a hero he seems like a real monomaniac person but without any human flaws. That's what makes it so hard to relate to him. He's regarded as one of the best tennis players ever and yet he's not really the crowds favourite.
He has yet to prove that there's no little computer chip in his head controlling all his perfect movements.
Call me barbaric but I want to see some blood, sweat and tears again :)
Well, I do not think you are a barbarian, but you might be a British citizen with a slightly skewed memory: Churchill did not want to see blood, sweat and tears, but rather asked pardon for not being able to offer something else.
Now to your suspicion that there is a little ind control chip in Roger Federer's brain; you are completely right, and I know the type of the chip: It's Swissness.
When the Swiss were still known as professional mercenaries in the services of France, Venice, Austria etc. they were praised for their discipline when it came to looting.
This discipline has been first documented during the wars between the Swiss and Charles the Hardy Duke of Burgundy, when the complete booty was collected, categorized and sold according to the severe discipline imposed by Swiss military law. It was then sold to the Fuggers of Augsburg through intermediaries in Basel, and this type of transaction might be one of the reasons for the success of the Swiss banking system, several hundred years later. For Federer's behaviour, there is no need to search for an electronic implant, it's based on the collective subconscious of a country...
References:
BORY, Jean-René: Die Geschichte der Fremdendienste, Delachaux & Niestlé 1980
OGGER Günter: Kauf Dir einen Kaiser - Die Geschichte der Fugger Munich 1978
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