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The pressure is immense. But the pressure in society is immense. And because we are always on TV and because many people still love football...even though there are things in football that are catastrophic. Disastrous. But that goes hand in hand with society as a whole.
The pressure is enormous. Ask, if I may say so, the people who are responsible for cleanliness in hotels and clean the rooms. Ask them in what time they have to clean how many rooms.
Everything is individualised. There are hardly any chains of connections in many areas of life. By chain of connections I mean...in the past, hotels were often family-run. People you knew worked there. From the village, from the city. You knew them. There were connections. Over decades, through families. It's all different now. We live in a world of big corporations.
We have major issues. We always talk about the middle class. Small and medium-sized companies are having an incredibly hard time. Yet it is that middle class that has brought us this incredible prosperity and wealth. And not the big corporations. They are the ones who ruin it. They destroy prosperity. They have become independent. And in football you can see that directly, so to speak.
The way things have developed, it's extremely difficult. We have an incredible number of people with mental health problems. These people have mental health problems because they are totally overburdened. Because they no longer get any warmth. Because there are no more reference points. No connections. This is a problem for society as a whole. That's concerning from my point of view. It's scary too.
I don't want to speak for all coaches...I'm not directly effected by this issue, so I can't say anything anyway. You have to ask the coaches who do a good job and still get fired after eight months or after ten or after twelve or after four.
But football has always been an expression of society as a whole. The sport directors are also under enormous pressure. It's madness. Because the connections are missing. Social media...the club loses two, three games. And then people lose their minds and spread things on social media, it's terrible. That wouldn't have happened in the past. Not to this extent atleast. Not that people were any better before. Not one bit. We weren't better, not at all. And there were much worse times than now, 80 years ago and before. But the reference points are missing. If you know someone personally, you think about it before insulting them. Saying something directly to someone's face, that's becoming less and less. That's one reason why with us...(I mean we're also a comapny, if we are honest. That doesn't sound all that nice because we are a football club. But we are also a company)...that's one reason why with us it's not like that. Because we have continuity, because we have connections. But I've already said it. The crucial point in our club will be how we deal with this growth. Whether we are able to meet and mentally deal with each other.
In the areas where that is not the case, things are going downhill. Sure, there are huge corporations these days...the small companies pay all their taxes and that's of course right. Because they have to support society. But the mega-corporations hardly pay any taxes and when they are supposed to pay taxes, they change countries and blackmail the countries. This is the situation. This is neo-capitalism. We live in neo-capitalism. And neo-capitalism destroys. That is my personal opinion. Of course, I am only a football coach. But since you asked me, I am giving you an answer.
Some good points, but it sounds like he's calling for a return to "traditional" capitalism and a return of familial exploitation. Something that is easily bent into fascism.
If he said "the immense prosperity come from labor" it would be different, but he seems to be focusing on petty bourgeois interests.
Yeah, it sounds like generic social democracy stuff. Probably pro-Green party considering it's Baden-Württenberg (which leads to probable above-average enthusiasm for war lol)
The question was “Did you do anything different to prepare for this game?”
I had to drink some water so i can spit something out reading this
Yet it is that middle class that has brought us this incredible prosperity and wealth
lmao
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/31/jose-mourinho-manchester-united-i-am-one-of-greatest-managers-hegel
in the past, hotels were often family-run. People you knew worked there. From the village, from the city. You knew them. There were connections. Over decades, through families. It's all different now. We live in a world of big corporations.
This is MAGA rhetoric: nostalgia for an imagined past. It was always better "back then".
Lots of things were worse on the past. This is not one of them though. Once upon a time people like cleaners or janitors were employed directly by the places they worked. People would know their names. Today it's all subcontractors who use the marvels of technology to micromanage and spy on workers. The jobs are often precarious, the workers recruited among vulnerable minorities like immigrants and they have no contact with the people whose mess they clean and subsequently no solidarity develops.
Don't get me wrong, these kind of service jobs always sucked and they have always been among the most exploited, contemporary capitalism has just found a way to make it suck in new ways in addition to the old and to make work even more alienated.
People living through neoliberalism pining for fordism (or social-democracy in europe tbf) as if that isn’t what brought us to this moment
There has been no visible leftist mass movements in the west for decades, no labour press and unions have ossified into succdem bureaucracies. Growing up in the west you get capitalist realism drilled into your head constantly. Not only do most westoids believe that there is no alternative to capitalism, they are unable to even imagine such an alternative.
But they still feel material reality. No amount of propaganda can completely prevent you from realising that something is wrong. However, capitalist propaganda has robbed them of the theoretical framework and language to articulate these thoughts. The only system besides the current one they can imagine is the one their parents and grandparents lived under. So instead of expressing socialist views they express nostalgia for the imagined succdem utopia of the past.
This nostalgia lends itself to reactionary ways of thinking and makes life easy for fascist demagogues but it doesn't mean that the ones expressing it are helplessly reactionary, it should rather be heard as a cry of despair against the alienation of the current system.
