MOOD # 02 - Did football change or did I ?

 I am getting old, well no too old. If I were a football player, I would no longer be a young promising talent but in the middle of my ''prime'' as the young twitter people call it.

Point is, I am 28. I was 6 when France won its first World Cup and 22 when we won the second one. And let me tell you that it was way more magical the first time around.

Le Roi David, forever my first love

I played and loved football forever, but now that I am ''old'' I do not care as much and sometimes I think it is just a case of ''it used to be better''.

Was it though?

Ask me the 11 of Lille or Le Mans in the 2000s and I will still be able to chat about how Tulio De Melo was a great threat in the box or how Mathieu Bodmer was at his best behind the striker as a skilful false nine. I even followed the foreign leagues and of course, I loved the great UCL clashes of that decade. Ronaldo's (the real gordo one) show at old trafford is one of my foundest tv memory.

But today, I just don't care anymore. I find everything is not genuine, money seems to be the only thing that matters, the dollar bills can make or break a club's future but in a more shocking way, it seems to shape the future of our competitions, of their history.I understand money was always there, the Galactics I loved were there to prove it. But, I don't know. I am lost. 

Less Salah, Mo' Bellamy

I used to spend hours watching matches, was raging my parents did not have the right TV plan so I was missing some random Ligue 1 matches. Today, I start putting a City/Liverpool on and get bored before the 10 minute mark.

The stars of today don't move me the way the old ones did. I was a kid, I revered them. Today, lads are younger than me, I think the magic is gone. So it must be just age... But I still get mad emotions going to the stadium (you know when we could still go 1000 years ago), still vibrate on crazy last minute goals.

I think the love of the game is still here but the love for its actors is gone. I follow the stories on the pitch but they need to be interesting enough. A good old David vs. Goliath, a tensed rivalry, a past between two teams. If there is none of that, you can give me two teams of Messis/Ronaldos playing I would not care to watch it. 

I am scared of their European Superleague plans, scared of how my home league is getting weaker and weaker financially, scared we have been having empty stadiums for a year now and that powerful people get used to that.

Adulthood, that silent assassin

Football has changed, I am not exactly sure how. But I changed more, I developped other big interests (basketball was not as big a part of my life 4 or 5 years ago) and let's face it, I do not have the time I used to be able to dedicate to sitting on my ass watching matches with work and my adulty shit going on.

I feel like I am in a phase now where I am mourning my old football life, have to move on but keep hoping Marseille gets a good striker during this transfer window.