Lifetime debts

Moral duties are not talked about very often. Paid quite rarely, these are discussed discreetly, shyly. In football, things related to this subject are a little different and you hardly feel like pointing the finger at the debtor.

For years there has been a growing chorus of coaches who are very unhappy that the footballers they have discovered are not sought out and mentioned, if not daily, at least weekly. We exclude from the start that the discussion has a substrate related to financial expectations, although nothing should be excluded in a world ruled by money.

But the claims are often absurd and you wonder why the technicians who were paid on their time to do a job, for better or for worse, don't feel embarrassed. If by chance (most often) they came across a doubled and serious talent, which ended up confirming at a high level, he automatically becomes obliged to seek them out and mention them more often than his own parents. Gratitude, rare flower as it is, should not be turned into a sorcery with which to beat the ungrateful on the head.

Football players with very good careers (Cristi Chivu is an example) are now and then put to the wall by their former coach from their teenage years, on the grounds that they have not called him lately. This list also included the new international, Ştefan Târnovanu, guilty of lack of involvement in the relationship with the former coach.

The good done with a specific purpose no longer falls under the "good" category, but is just an investment from which profit is expected.