Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.
Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.
Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.
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