Soccer & Stature

A woman from Venus and a Hindu god decide to use soccer to thwart the deadliness of terrorism on Earth in the new millennium!

Alright, I've decided to return for the New Year, for an anti-terrorism values vignette about global soccer, and this yarn was inspired by the terrorism-dogma film Munich.

Thanks (farewell),

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"An attractive female humanoid on the planet Venus named Pizzazz was studying Hindu philosophy among humans on the planet Earth. Pizzazz believed humans worshiping the Hindu god Shiva, master of destruction, represented a natural fear about turbulence and power and began to wonder if Shiva was somehow a real 'entity' watching over the human species! Pizzazz decided to fly to Earth's moon and spy on humans and see if Shiva was real. When she discovered Shiva was indeed a real male god and entity, she wanted to meet with him and used her telekinetic communication device to converse with the god (who lived secretly in the mountains of Nepal!)."

SHIVA: What do you want with me?

PIZZAZZ: I'm a woman from Venus, Lord Shiva!

SHIVA: What do you want with me?
PIZZAZZ: I want to study Earth civilization psychology.

SHIVA: How can I help you?
PIZZAZZ: Why do humans love sports/athletics?
SHIVA: Sports helps humans celebrate peace and competition.

PIZZAZZ: The World Cup soccer tournament is quite popular on Earth!
SHIVA: Yes, the World Cup has produced many male superstars.
PIZZAZZ: In recent times, the American women's national team has won 4 titles.
SHIVA: Yes, the women's World Cup has gained media attention thanks to the Americans!

PIZZAZZ: The women's national team in America has brought interest in soccer to America!
SHIVA: True; otherwise, soccer remains a sport popular in Europe, South America, and Africa.

PIZZAZZ: Soccer never really caught on in America, right?

SHIVA: Right; football and baseball are more popular in America.
PIZZAZZ: So how did the American women's national team do so well in the World Cup?
SHIVA: The American women's team invested heavily and performed well in the World Cup!

PIZZAZZ: Soccer in America is popular mostly at the high-school and collegiate level.

SHIVA: Right.

PIZZAZZ: Yet, the men's World Cup has yielded world superstars such as Maradona and Ronaldo.
SHIVA: Right; I try to help American youngsters celebrate world-soccer in modern video-games.
PIZZAZZ: I've discovered that soccer video-games are quite popular in America!
SHIVA: So why do you want my help?

PIZZAZZ: Let's transform into humanoid beings and help Americans market soccer.
SHIVA: Alright; sounds interesting, but what's the rationale, Pizzazz?
PIZZAZZ: We market soccer in America and promote world-peace through sports.
SHIVA: Sounds wise, especially for this new age of commerce-gauged globalization.

PIZZAZZ: Americans are still scarred from the anti-globalization trauma of 9/11.

SHIVA: Right; alright I'll transform into an Algerian-American prince, and you become a Euro-model.
PIZZAZZ: Sounds savvy...

"Pizzazz and Shiva decided to transform into a European fashion-model named Emanuel and an Algerian-American prince named Ajay Satan. Emanuel and Ajay began hyping the re-marketing of the classic Sega Genesis video-game system, which was now available in American online stores and consumer electronics stores as vintage retro gaming systems, complete with classic games included in the package! This was a great offering for video-game fans interested in one of the early iconic systems in video-game play (Nintendo, Sega) that kicked off a globally popular home-entertainment activity on Earth. Pizzazz and Shiva blogged on the Internet about the distribution of classic Sega Genesis systems and classic games like World Championship Soccer. They made terrific Christmas gifts for kids in America!"

"Pizzazz and Shiva did some statistics-analysis and found out that the classic Genesis system being re-marketed for modern Christmas presents were popular and did well in sales! In fact, modern-day kids with more fancy video-game systems such as Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox were suddenly intrigued by the notion that they could remember the pioneering days of 1980s-1990s video-game play by being suddenly able to purchase well-functioning originally-engineered Sega Genesis systems that came with their own vintage games! This was a great boon for video-game markets and video-game consumerism, so Pizzazz and Shiva talked about this new trend in Christmas shopping as symbolic of 21st Century capitalism on Earth. They hyped World Championship Soccer as one of the most iconic Sega Genesis games for this 'marketing' initiative."

"Of course, they were correct in concluding that men's soccer continued to be popular mostly in Europe, South America, and Africa, where club teams and even national teams produced incredible games and stars in the real world. Soccer remained mostly uncherished in America, where it remained popular only at the high-school and collegiate level. While kids in America loved soccer and enjoyed participating in rather well-funded youth-leagues across the nation, soccer was celebrated socially mostly only in high schools and colleges. Even the 4 World Cup titles acquired by the US women's national team failed to bring much attention to pro-soccer in America. Soccer remained a men's sport in continents outside America!"

"However, the popularity of the Sega Genesis vintage video-game system and the World Championship Soccer classic game/cartridges brought some newfound social spotlight and energy for the sport/game among kids in America during the Christmas shopping season! EA Sports' iconic FIFA-Soccer video-game series was already very popular for the PlayStation and Xbox systems, but the re-selling of World Championship Soccer for the re-marketed Sega Genesis further enhanced American kids' love of soccer in the imaginarium world of video-games. This was very interesting to Pizzazz and Shiva."

PIZZAZZ: Maybe these soccer video-games will make the sport more popular!

SHIVA: American kids certainly appreciate them.
PIZZAZZ: The Sega Genesis has gained a nostalgic reboot.

SHIVA: It's a Christmas consumerism phenomenon!
PIZZAZZ: It's surprising that American women's national soccer is still not popular.

SHIVA: Well, soccer remains unpopular in America.

PIZZAZZ: That's shocking.

SHIVA: Yes, the World Cup soccer tournament is a global symbol of peace.
PIZZAZZ: Even in this age of anti-globalization terrorism, there are social hurdles!
SHIVA: Yes, people still don't care about marketing sports as a vehicle for peace.

PIZZAZZ: Perhaps the Genesis soccer game will encourage kids to tell their parents about soccer.

SHIVA: Maybe these parents will celebrate World Cup soccer as lofty symbol of modern peace.

PIZZAZZ: That's the hope.
SHIVA: We can perhaps market these Genesis games to American celebrities.

PIZZAZZ: This might promote a television trend!
SHIVA: Let's do it.

"Pizzazz used her clout in the European fashion-model circuit to recruit attractive female soccer players from around the world and from American colleges for a special soccer video-game marketing campaign designed to boost interest in global women's soccer. She recruited talented and gorgeous female soccer athletes to help her use the recent successes of the US women's national soccer team at the women's World Cup tournament to hype the participation of America in the modern global social traffic and general magazine culture. Pizzazz talked about soccer as a vehicle for peace aesthetics."

"The soccer athletes Pizzazz recruited were quite attractive women. Pizzazz used their photos for Internet-blogs about the modern appeal of women-in-sports and women's soccer in general around the globe! Pizzazz talked about using the successes of the US women's national soccer team at the women's World Cup as a symbol of new age pro-globalization rhetoric that would diminish the anti-globalization terrorism chatter (e.g., 9/11). Soccer was an official sport at the Summer Olympics, and iconic national teams had won medals, so Pizzazz talked about why modern-day female American college student-athletes at prestigious schools such as Duke would want to celebrate soccer at the Summer Olympics!"

"Pizzazz also hyped a Dutch women's national soccer team star who was willing to pose for attractive female exercise photos hyping the participation of attractive women in modern sports. Pizzazz used these photos to help draw the interest of Hollywood actresses who might help her increase the popularity of the US women's national soccer team! Pizzazz used these images and ideas about female soccer athletes to talk about alternative marketing of sports as a peace-symbolic human activity on Earth. This was an ambitious project indeed."

"Shiva meanwhile used his wisdom to talk about the terrorism at the Summer Olympics in Munich in 1972. In this event, Palestinian terrorists Israeli athletes and spawned a media outrage towards anti-athletics terror in the modern world! Shiva talked about Munich '72 as a serious motivation for using sports to diminish the evils of terrorism. Sports should encourage negotiation, so Shiva talked about the marketing of women's soccer as an important symbol of human imagination...and human democracy."

PIZZAZZ: I've recruited female soccer players and networked with American actresses!

SHIVA: I've talked about Munich '72 Olympics terrorism and women's soccer.

PIZZAZZ: Great; let's now work with youth-leagues in America.

SHIVA: We can talk about American kids' participation in these soccer youth-leagues.
PIZZAZZ: We can parallel this talk with the consumerism-talk about Genesis video-games.

SHIVA: We can make modern soccer a 'ritual' totem.

PIZZAZZ: Excellent...

"Pizzazz and Shiva used images of soccer youth-leagues across America for a magazine-oriented Internet-blog about the social value of soccer as a peaceful competitive activity that boosted sales of soccer-themed video-games during Christmas! This was very clever marketing, and Shiva used his disguised status as an Algerian-American prince to promote the governance value of youth social activities as national symbols of active education. Pizzazz and Shiva now hoped to network with American celebrities for this soccer market initiative!"

"Pizzazz and Shiva managed to recruit the American celebrity actress Charlie Theron, whose work in culturally-symbolic Hollywood (USA) films such as Monster, Celebrity, Aeon Flux, The Cider House Rules, and The Devil's Advocate made her a social 'diplomat' of modern global values! Charlize was going to join the Euro-fashion model Emanuel (Pizzazz) and the Algerian-American prince Ajay Satan (Shiva) for a new Europe-oriented marketing magazine campaign involving the English club-soccer team Chelsea. Chelsea was owned by a Russian billionaire-businessman and Shiva (Ajay Satan) and Pizzazz (Emanuel) were going to feature a team shirt presentation photo of Charlize Theron during a Chelsea game to hype the interest of entertainment/capitalism stars in modern global soccer!"

"After Charlize Theron got involved in the magazine-marketing of the popular English club-soccer team Chelsea, Pizzazz (Emanuel) and Shiva (Ajay Satan) used their American and European networks to talk about the popularity of Sega Genesis soccer video-games (World Championship Soccer) as a Christmastime consumerism vehicle of sports-consciousness in the modern world. Pizzazz and Shiva wanted to formally hype soccer as peace-promoting pastime, so the World Cup soccer tournament would remind people of the anti-globalization horror of the Munich '72 massacre (terrorism)! Charlize Theron became Shiva and Pizzazz's special soccer doll."

"The interest of Charlize Theron in Chelsea club-soccer in Europe brought in more fans to the sport and boosted ratings of Chelsea games in America! This paired well with the boosted sales of Sega Genesis vintage soccer video-games for Christmastime in America. Pizzazz realized she was doing much on Earth alongside the god Shiva to promote soccer as an anti-terrorism human activity. This was terrific capitalism and insightful entertainment. Even Shiva was pleased."

PIZZAZZ: Our mission has bore fruit.

SHIVA: Yes, soccer has become a vehicle for mobilization!
PIZZAZZ: Sports promotes peace on Earth.
SHIVA: That was the hope.

PIZZAZZ: I will return to Venus now.
SHIVA: I'll return to Nepal now.

PIZZAZZ: Thanks for all your help.
SHIVA: You too!

PIZZAZZ: Stay cool.

"Even Chelsea benefitted from this mission by Pizzazz and Shiva, since interest in the English club-team suddenly went through the roof. Apparently, a little initiative in the sport of soccer on Earth can go a long way. This was good news for the new millennium...and for anti-terrorism drama."

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