Mihajlovic, exemption and respect | Gramellini’s Coffee

The executives of the Bologna the coach is fired on the spot Sinisa Mihajlovicbecause he collected the misery of three points in five games and the first reaction, the daughter of these hypersensitive times, is: look at how we have reduced, they no longer bring respect even to a sick person.

Mihajlovic has been fighting for years against leukemia and Bologna had always been close to him so far, so the exemption becomes a stab in the back, a cynical choice that definitively expels poetry from a sport dominated by the cold numbers of signings and results.

For it, it can also be told in another way. Mihajlovic has never practiced victimhood or endured pietism. (As a politician he would have little success).

From the day he fell ill, he asked to be judged on his job and not on his state of health. Now, a fact that his job was going pretty bad. Surely it will not depend only on him, but in football the coach is the first to pay, if only because it is cheaper to replace the coach than the entire team.

You may disagree with this bad habit, but we are not putting the rituals of football on trial here. We are discussing whether Mihajlovic should be treated differently from anyone else, as he is affected by leukemia. A man with his character is not disrespected by sending him away even though he is ill, but by giving up sending him away only because he is ill.

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