We are making fools of ourselves, not honoring our debts, being "clean" but fraudulent, cheats and scoundrels. Yet these same "influencers" are the ones who tear their clothes, proclaiming themselves defenders of the National Team; I will see them back at the box office, looking for a photo. The other topic is more domestic, because getting ahead of the facts and "injuring" a player, just by boasting that they will "drop the bomb" first. I learned from empirical people who perhaps did not study journalism, but they handled informative and interpretative genres to perfection; one must always aim for veracity. In the early 90s, my teacher Rafael "Chequele" Samudio used to say: "When you have the cat's fur in your hand, you tell me its color", and in this same editorial office at Crítica, Mario Milciades Molina indicated: "When one misinforms, it's like mixing water and oil; you can never collect it all again and you lose credibility". Apparently, we industrialize idiocy, we produce it, package it, market it and sell it. To my family, football fans, I recommend focusing on what is most important, attending to the performance of the "Sele", because I don't want to be last in a World Cup again. The author of the column is a commentator on Sertv Deportes. Our football, on the contrary, in "Aldealand" or in "slippers", these epithets originated by my friends Luis Giraldo and Hugo Kohen, seem to frame and reflect with accuracy what we live in Panama. With two very marked facts: an "influencer" claims money lent to Fredy Gondola, and the other, a colleague who gets ahead and misinforms about a supposed injury to Michael Amir Murillo and is denied by the player himself. It is incredible and difficult to understand and reason the unprofessional relationship that Panamanian football has, where the most important thing is to debate, immersed in morbidity and putting a football player in public ridicule because he owes money; without a doubt, there is no culture for this sport. What importance does it have that this "subnormal" character claims his money, when it is a personal matter, even overshadowing the celebration of 50 years of our first World Cup qualifier match (Argentina 1978), April 4, 1976, where we beat Costa Rica 3-2? We all know that this person who today demands seriousness, most of his material is irreverent, with sarcastic touches and full of buffoonery. How can a topic as trivial and banal as a debt for a $450 loan, which would even be a waste of time before a justice of the peace, help us grow and develop? This is an experience for our football players: that these "upstarts", who play PlayStation and eat ice cream cones, are not their friends, they are usurpers of their moment of glory and for them the most important thing is to generate buzz, at all costs and whoever falls. You may be interestedAtlético beat Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinalsApril 08, 2026Panama football defines teams for South American Youth ChampionshipApril 08, 2026Bocas del Toro goes for the sweep against Coclé to advance to the semifinalsApril 08, 2026‘If there is a team that can win in Munich, that is Real Madrid’April 08, 2026Arsenal won 1-0 away to SportingApril 08, 2026This case is worthy of a correction office, a muddy patio or a neighborhood of brawls, but the damage is irreparable; the image of a World Cup-level national team is damaged internationally.
