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Titolo: Non solo Inter...

Gli amici interisti possono stare tranquilli: se non vincono lo scudetto da
15 anni c'è chi sta messo peggio di loro. Nel mondo c'è chi non vince da 100
anni o non ha vinto mai. Ho trovato un articolo sul «New York Times» che
parla degli sfigati di ogni tempo, e nel quale si spiega come più si è
sfigati più ci si costruisce la propria sfiga.
Alla prossima Sergio
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http://www.the-brights.net
http://www.amnesty.it
Tessera n. 503584 di Amnesty International
e-mail: 
kingof...@email.it
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Oh, No, Not Again: Chronicling Chronic Losing
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
 Published: March 28, 2004
The baseball season starts this week, so expect to hear the usual songs of
despair from the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox, who are to futility what
the Yankees are to success. Their World Series droughts of 96 and 86 years,
respectively, are easily the longest titleless streaks in North American
professional sports. But they came so close last year, surviving deep into
the playoffs, that losers everywhere will be watching closely again.
	Yet the Cubs and the Red Sox are hardly alone on this earth. In fact,
futility is a worldwide plague. Many pro teams across the globe have
suffered or are still suffering championship slumps of comparable, even
greater, lengths.
	Baseball's hexed franchises might find consolation in soccer teams in the
Netherlands, where Vitesse Arnhem, a 102-year-old club, has never won a
title, or in Chile, where Talca Rangers have also struggled for 102 seasons
without winning laurels. In England, Notts County, like the Cubs, won often
in its early years but has now gone 110 seasons since last lifting the
silverware.
	Beyond soccer, the Somerset County team has played cricket since 1891, and
remains the only team never to win the English county championship. The
North Sydney Bears, who were present at the creation of the New South Wales
Rugby League in 1908 and won Australian titles in 1921 and 1922 but never
another, finally passed from existence three years ago.
	In Ireland, the national hurling and Gaelic football championships have been
contested since 1887, yet five teams have never tasted ultimate victory in
either sport's top tier. In the case of Kilkenny, it has won 28 hurling
titles over the years, but not a single Gaelic football crown. How a county
that produces men who can whack a ball with a stick but who can't kick a
bigger ball with their feet is something of a mystery.
	Endless losing does not have to be endless. Stade Français of Paris, the
rugby union club that won the French championship five times by 1908, waited
90 years to win it again, which it did before 80,000 ecstatic fans.
	Not until last month did Middlesbrough, a dour also-ran perpetually
struggling to stay in the top tier of English soccer, win the English League
Cup. It took 128 years to do so (And the League Cup is the least prestigious
of the three titles up for grabs annually in English football).
Middlesbrough, a small northeastern city, went into a frenzy. Some 150,000
people lined the streets for the victory parade.
	Is there such a thing as a cycle of failure, as there is a cycle of poverty?
Some believe so.
	«Take the Red Sox», says Dr. Saul L. Miller, a Vancouver-based sports
psychologist and author who has worked with pro baseball, football and
hockey teams. «They perceive themselves as jinxed. Part of a team's
identity, which is reflected in the attitude of its players, is "Who are
we?". If the team loses a few close games, and it has a history of losing
close games, each setback makes the players think, "Oh, no, not again". The
fans already have a negative expectation, and pretty soon the players
tighten up, and they lose». You must create "positive psychology" in and
around the team, Dr. Miller says.
	And indeed, that is what Middlesbrough did in 2001, when it became the first
English soccer club to hire a sports psychologist as a full-time assistant
manager. It chose Bill Beswick, the former head coach of the English
national basketball team.
	«This club had a very low self-image when we got here», he said of
Middlesbrough. «The other clubs' fans used to sing songs about how we'd
never won anything. All that just kills you, so we changed things around and
told our players we refuse to live in the past. This is our opportunity and
our day, we told them, and while our fans still had the old negative
attitude, inside the club we had a positive outlook».
	«My advice to your baseball teams», Beswick added, «is not to get into a
negative self-image».
	«Refuse», he said, «to live in the past».
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Alla prossima Sergio
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http://www.amnesty.it
Tessera n. 503584 di Amnesty International
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kingof...@email.it
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azz... come sempre.

sfigati piů ci si costruisce la propria sfiga.
vedi firma..... :))))
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 ecc, mai verso il basso... ma č anche giusto che sia cosě in fondo...
    Mica del tutto vero.
    Ultimamente un tipico riferimento dell'Inter č l'Udinese, fonte di
notevoli spunti.
--
pP
"io godo quando trombo, cosa ti da il calcio a te?" (Carlone, "er
Mongolone")

 basso... ma č anche giusto che sia cosě in fondo...
Probabilmente č una questione di obiettivi. Il tifoso udinese, senese, non
mette lo scudetto nel suo ordine di idee ad inizio stagione (se č per questo
nemmeno il tifoso interista avveduto), quindi se fa un quinto posto come nel
caso dell'Udinese o una salvezza tranquilla a centroclassifica come nel caso
del Siena, il campionato č andato piů che bene. Ovvio che per un interista
il quinto posto sarebbe un fallimento totale. Se magari l'interista
ragionasse come il senese o l'udinese, si godrebbe via via prima la
salvezza, poi il centroclassifica, poi la zona uefa, poi magari la champions
league e financo (so che sto dicendola grossa) lo scudetto, se capita. Se
invece parte dal presupposto che qualsiasi cosa meno dello scudetto č una
tragedia, ecco lě che il tifoso ce l'ha nel culo dall'inizio del campionato.
Guarda fai come faccio io, che mi accontento del terzo posto perché so che č
almeno due o tre posti sopra quello che ci meritiamo quest'anno, visto che
stiamo giocando da pippe....
Alla prossima Sergio
--
http://www.the-brights.net
http://www.amnesty.it
Tessera n. 503584 di Amnesty International
e-mail: 
kingof...@email.it
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