A very subjective look into AWFC

Hello friends,

I promise you I will not get political at all in this post. Not because I don’t think I should mix politics with sports (I do, I think we all should, and I talk about politics here all the time) but because I don’t really have the bandwidth to explain what I see happening and what I see in the future… spoiler alert: nobody does.

I was born and raised in Caracas. I am Venezuelan. I love my home and culture. I am also a United States citizen and I’ve been living here for most of my life. Nine years in Boston and twice as many in Los Angeles, before that I lived 18 years in Caracas. So to say all of this is a mindfuck, would be very subtle to say the least.

What I will say though is that there is a discourse out there, mostly by my fellow Venezuelans, which essentially implies that ONLY Venezuelans should have a voice and nobody else should have an opinion. I disagree with this. I also think its a very bastardized and basic rendition of that the sentiment is… something along the lines that us Venezuelans should be heard first and more clearly and given more importance than others.

Reading so many takes online about people that literally have no idea what they’re talking about but speaking with such confidence is outstanding and it reminds me about me talking about football. I am convinced many people out know what they are talking about but the vast majority of us don’t. So many things go unchecked on social media and often times the people that happen to be eloquent or have an above average grasp of a language, grammar and such, will always frame like their side of the argument is correct, even without data, just because of how they present things. It’s fascinating and dangerous and funny and weird.

This is among the reasons I keep encouraging people to keep posting content and make blogs and podcasts about WOSO and more specifically about Arsenal Women. The more diversity the better and nothing proves to us that the people that have monopolized how stats and such are presented to us, actually know what they’re talking about.

It’s all an absolute mess and the fact that it’s just a global topic now, after 27 years of misery is good and also, where the fuck was this all along?

For those that have reached out asking about my family: thank you! They are safe and sound, but as ever, I don’t know for how long.

❤

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