Filosofi Sepakbola

Sepakbola merupakan cabang olahraga yang paling banyak diminati oleh masyarakat dunia. Sejak berkembang pada tahun 1863 di Inggris, sepakbola mengalami perkembangan yang sangat pesat sampai saat ini. Di abad 21, sepakbola tidak hanya menjadi salah satu cabang olahraga, tetapi telah menjadi salah satu lahan bisnis yang sangat menggiurkan bagi para "pemuja" uang. Jutaan dollar terus mengalir dalam bisnis sepakbola dan tenaga manusia selalu dieksploitasi untuk menghasilkan uang yang lebih banyak lagi.


Hampir semua negara di belahan dunia ini memainkan sepakbola. di beberapa negara (seperti Inggris dan Italia), eksistensi sepakbola bahkan bisa bersaing dengan eksistensi agama, di mana ada statement yang sering didengar adalah football is my religion, footballigiusme. keindahan permainan sepakbola telah menjadi semacam candu yang terus mempengaruhi orang untuk duduk bertahan lama di depan televisi untuk menyaksikan pertandingan sepakbola.


Dalam pertandingan sepakbola, kita tentunya tidak hanya melihat 22 orang lari di lapangan untuk mengejar bola dan mencetak gol, namun ada nilai lain yang lebih penting yang kemudian bisa menjadi pedoman dalam kehidupan kita, yaitu nilai kepemimpinan dan kerjasama. Nilai kepemimpinan terlihat dalam diri pelatih dan kapten tim. Pelatih dapat dikatakan sebagai mastermind dalam meracik strategi bagi timnya. Tanpa ada strategi yang jelas, suatu tim bola akan sangat sulit dalam menghadapi para lawannya. Pelatih adalah juga pemimpin dalam tim sepakbola. oleh karena itu, kewibawaan, kecerdasan, kecerdikan, dan kedisiplinan merupakan sikap yang sangat dituntut dimiliki oleh setiap pelatih. 


Selain pelatih, sikap pemimpin juga terlihat dalam diri kapten tim, yang memimpin rekan-rekannya di dalam lapangan. Kapten tim hadir untuk mengganti peran pelatih, yang hadir untuk memimpin teman-temannya dalam menerapkan strategi yang telah ditetapkan pelatih, dan terutama untuk memberikan semangat bagi teman-teman yang bermain. Seorang kapten tim harus memiliki kharisma khusus, di mana rekan setimnya dapat menaruh kepercayaan untuk memimpin mereka di dalam lapangan. setiap tim sepakbola wajib memiliki kapten tim.


Hal lain yang tidak kalah pentingnya dalam sepakbola adalah kerjasama. Kerjasama tim merupakan kunci kemenangan suatu tim sepakbola. Tanpa ada kerjasama yang baik antara pemain dan pemain serta antara pemain dan pelatih, maka strategi yang telah ditetapkan untuk mencapai kemenangan tidak dapat diterapkan dengan baik. Sepakbola merupakan olahraga tim, maka kerjasama merupakan hal mutlak yang harus diterapkan dalam setiap pertandingan yang dijalani. Kerjasama tentunya harus dilandasi oleh sikap percaya, saya dapat mencapai kemenangan bersama rekan tim saya. kerjasama tanpa rasa percaya sama dengan kosong.


Dua nilai besar sepakbola ini diharapkan dapat pula diterapkan dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara. Kepemimpinan dan kerjasama menjadi nilai dasar dalam proses penyelenggaraan negara. Seorang pemimpin negara dituntut untuk mempunyai sikap bijaksana, tegas dan berwibawa. Ia harus sadar eksistensinya sebagai pemimpin adalah untuk melayani kepentingan rakyat. Ia harus bijaksana dalam merumuskan kebijakan negara, dan ia harus tegas dalam menjalankan kebijakan negara. Ketika ada persoalan, ia harus berani mengambil keputusan dalam proses penyelesaian masalah yang ada. Pemimpin adalah pelayanan. Ia hadir untuk mendengarkan suara rakyatnya dan berjuang untuk menjalankan aspirasi rakyat.


Peran seorang pemimpin menjadi tidak berarti ketika tidak ada kerjasama nyata dengan rakyat. Relasi kerjasama pemimpin dan rakyat menjadi batu penjuru hidup bernegara. Tanpa kerjasama, maka yang lahir adalah diktatorisme. Ketika kita berbicara mengenai demokrasi, maka kerjasama adalah pointnya, dengan rakyat menjadi sentralnya. Kerjasama yang baik antara pemimpin-rakyat menjadi senjata utama untuk menjaga keutuhan bangsa. Kerjasama dapat membantu suatu negara memperoleh "kemenangan" yang menjadi tujuan bersama (perdamaian, keadilan dan kesejahteraan).


Sepakbola telah mengajarkan kita mengenai banyak hal. Sekarang menjadi tugas kita untuk dapat menemukan nilai-nilai tersebut dan menerapkannya dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat. Hanya melalui kepemimpinan dan kerjasama yang baik, suatu tim sepakbola dapat meraih kemenangan. Demikian pula dengan negara, hanya melalui kepemimpinan dan kerjasama yang baik dan kontinyu, suatu bangsa/negara dapat menciptakan perdamaian, keadilan dan kesejahteraan. Suatu bangsa dapat dikatakan sebagai pemenang, apabila rakyatnya telah hidup dalam kesejahteraan. Ini bukan mimpi, apalagi utopia. yang dibutuhkan sekarang adalah keberanian untuk memulainya. (inv)

The Slovenian philosopher-scholar Slavoj Žižek, spoke at Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street protests are being held.  Made some corrections, Oct 25, 6:30PM EST

They are saying we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is always socialism for the rich. They say we don’t respect private property, but in the 2008 financial crash-down more hard-earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are the awakening from a dream that is turning into a nightmare.

We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know the classic scene from cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath this ground. Only when it looks down and notices it, it falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, "Hey, look down!"

In mid-April 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV, films, and novels all stories that contain alternate reality or time travel. This is a good sign for China. These people still dream about alternatives, so you have to prohibit this dreaming. Here, we don’t need a prohibition because the ruling system has even oppressed our capacity to dream. Look at the movies that we see all the time. It’s easy to imagine the end of the world. An asteroid destroying all life and so on. But you cannot imagine the end of capitalism.

So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful, old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say. If it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: “Everything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theatres show good films from the west. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.” This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom— war on terror and so on—falsifies freedom. And this is what you are doing here. You are giving all of us red ink.

There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after, when we will have to return to normal lives. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like “Oh. we were young and it was beautiful.” Remember that our basic message is “We are allowed to think about alternatives.” If the taboo is broken, we do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want. But what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want?

Remember. The problem is not corruption or greed. The problem is the system. It forces you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process. In the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat, they will try to make this into a harmless, moral protest. A decaffienated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of a world where, to recycle Coke cans, to give a couple of dollars for charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where 1% goes to third world starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after marriage agencies are now outsourcing our love life, we can see that for a long time, we allow our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back.

We are not Communists if Communism means a system which collapsed in 1990. Remember that today those Communists are the most efficient, ruthless Capitalists. In China today, we have Capitalism which is even more dynamic than your American Capitalism, but doesn’t need democracy. Which means when you criticize Capitalism, don’t allow yourself to be blackmailed that you are against democracy. The marriage between democracy and Capitalism is over. The change is possible.

What do we perceive today as possible? Just follow the media. On the one hand, in technology and sexuality, everything seems to be possible. You can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by biogenetics, you can have sex with animals or whatever, but look at the field of society and economy. There, almost everything is considered impossible. You want to raise taxes by little bit for the rich. They tell you it’s impossible. We lose competitivity. You want more money for health care, they tell you, "Impossible, this means totalitarian state." There’s something wrong in the world, where you are promised to be immortal but cannot spend a little bit more for healthcare. Maybe we need to set our priorities straight here. We don’t want higher standard of living. We want a better standard of living. The only sense in which we are Communists is that we care for the commons. The commons of nature. The commons of privatized by intellectual property. The commons of biogenetics. For this, and only for this, we should fight.

Communism failed absolutely, but the problems of the commons are here. They are telling you we are not American here. But the conservatives fundamentalists who claim they really are American have to be reminded of something: What is Christianity? It’s the holy spirit. What is the holy spirit? It’s an egalitarian community of believers who are linked by love for each other, and who only have their own freedom and responsibility to do it. In this sense, the holy spirit is here now. And down there on Wall Street, there are pagans who are worshipping blasphemous idols. So all we need is patience. The only thing I’m afraid of is that we will someday just go home and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer, and nostaligically remembering “What a nice time we had here.” Promise yourselves that this will not be the case. We know that people often desire something but do not really want it. Don’t be afraid to really want what you desire. Thank you very much. (http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript)