Wales vs Ukraine

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHICS
A. Edgar
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On 5 June 2022 Wales played Ukraine for a place in the FIFA World Cup finals, which are due to be held in Qatar in November and December 2022. I suspect that all right-mined people wanted Ukraine to win. That win would have provided a significant boost to the morale of a nation suffering under an unprovoked military incursion and brutal war. As I write, there is little prospect that the war will have ended by November. Although right-minded people may have wanted Ukraine to win, I supported Wales, and was delighted with their ultimate victory. I felt slightly guilty and, for personal reasons, a little surprised at my delight. My support for Wales is relatively easy to explain. I have lived half my life in Cardiff, and in a period of more than thirty years support of the national sports team, be it soccer, rugby, or any other sport you care to mention, has become ingrained. It is second nature. Added to that, for most of those thirty years I lived in the suburb of Cardiff where Gareth Bale was born and went to school. I passed the Gareth Bale mural on Church Road every time I went to the local shops. Sport can play fast and loose with our political sensibilities. In sport, it seems, we put our national (or even tribal) loyalties above issues of international justice. Indeed, if Wales had let Ukraine win, ensuring their place in the World Cup finals, it can be argued that a sporting injustice would have been committed. In sport, one respects one’s opponent not by indulging them, however worthy the outcome of that indulgence might be, but by playing them as aggressively and fairly as you would in any match. After all, in 2001, the Arizona Diamondbacks did not let the New York Yankees win the World Series, despite 9/ 11. The Diamondbacks showed the Yankees the respect they deserved. So too, Wales respected Ukraine by not letting them win. There are added complexities to all this. Some of these complexities are personal. By June 2022 I had moved away from Cardiff, and back to my native England. Should a change of national loyalties have occurred (perhaps at the precise moment in which I received the keys to my new house)? Should I have become a right-minded neutral when Wales played? Even if a change should have occurred, it didn’t. Second nature, so painstakingly shaped over thirty years, does not, I discovered, change over night. That image of Gareth Bale on a wall in Church Road is surprisingly persuasive. What is significant here is that sport can be a crucible in which one’s sense of identity, and thus the entangled and sometimes contradictory communities and cultures that demand your loyalty, are tested and exposed. Through sport, it seems, one can learn a lot about one’s personal identity politics. In sport one begins to tease out the complexities of who you are, who you have been, and who you might become. SPORT, ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY 2022, VOL. 16, NO. 3, 251–253 https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2022.2101284
威尔士vs乌克兰
2022年6月5日,威尔士队与乌克兰队争夺世界杯决赛席位,世界杯将于2022年11月和12月在卡塔尔举行。我怀疑所有右翼人士都希望乌克兰获胜。这场胜利将极大地提振这个遭受无端军事入侵和残酷战争的国家的士气。在我写这篇文章的时候,战争在11月结束的可能性微乎其微。虽然正直的人可能希望乌克兰获胜,但我支持威尔士,并为他们最终的胜利感到高兴。我感到有点内疚,出于个人原因,我对自己的喜悦感到有点惊讶。我对威尔士的支持相对容易解释。我在卡迪夫生活了半辈子,在三十多年的时间里,我对国家运动队的支持,无论是足球、橄榄球,还是其他任何你愿意提到的运动,都已经根深蒂固。这是第二天性。此外,在那30年的大部分时间里,我都住在加的夫郊区,加雷思·贝尔就是在那里出生和上学的。每次去当地的商店,我都会经过教堂路上的加雷斯·贝尔(Gareth Bale)壁画。体育运动可以忽悠我们的政治敏感性。在体育运动中,我们似乎把对国家(甚至是部落)的忠诚置于国际正义之上。事实上,如果威尔士让乌克兰获胜,确保了他们在世界杯决赛中的席位,可以说这是一种体育上的不公正。在体育运动中,一个人尊重自己的对手,不是通过纵容他们,不管这种纵容的结果是多么值得,而是通过像在任何比赛中一样积极和公平地对待他们。毕竟,在2001年,亚利桑那响尾蛇队没有让纽约洋基队赢得世界大赛,尽管9/ 11。响尾蛇队向洋基队展示了他们应得的尊重。威尔士也尊重乌克兰,不让他们赢。这一切都有额外的复杂性。其中一些复杂性是个人的。到2022年6月,我离开了卡迪夫,回到了我的祖国英国。是否应该改变对国家的忠诚(也许就在我拿到新房子钥匙的那一刻)?当威尔士比赛时,我应该成为一个正直的中立者吗?即使应该发生变化,它也没有发生。我发现,经过三十年精心塑造的第二天性,不会在一夜之间改变。加雷斯·贝尔(Gareth Bale)在教堂路(Church Road)墙上的照片令人惊讶地具有说服力。这里的重要意义在于,体育可以成为一个考验和暴露个人认同感的熔炉,从而考验和暴露要求你忠诚的那些纠缠在一起、有时甚至是相互矛盾的社区和文化。通过体育运动,人们似乎可以学到很多关于个人身份政治的东西。在体育运动中,一个人开始梳理出你是谁,你曾经是谁,你可能成为谁的复杂性。体育伦理与哲学,2022年,第16卷,第1期。3,251 - 253 https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2022.2101284
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