The Argentina-Israel friendly match was called off amid protests over the Jewish state's conduct toward the Palestinians.
To be consistent, we must imagine our national team boycotting the upcoming World Cup in Russia. After all, the Kremlin has been engaged in military action in Syria in collaboration with the Syrian despot Bashar Assad and caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians.
We should also call off the match against Iceland in the tournament's groups stage because its forces were part of the coalition that invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nor should we play against Nigeria, in order to protest the atrocities carried out by Boko Haram, a terrorist organization responsible for the murder of thousands (mainly women and children). And, of course, we must call off the match against Croatia, to show our solidarity with the Serbs and because of the brutality shown by the Croats when the two countries were at war in the 1990s. The Serbs were no saints, but we must not forget the alliance between the Croatians and Nazi Germany.
We must never play against Spain, because of its colonial enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Let us also avoid any contact with Les Bleus to protest France's long period of colonialism. Nor should ever have to share the same stadium with Saudi Arabia, because of its repression of women, or play against Brazil, which has imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and which has yet to shed its dark history of slavery and discrimination.
According to the rationale behind canceling the match with Israel, we should also boycott the Palestinian national team. After all, the Gaza Strip is controlled by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is in a state of war against the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Let us not fool ourselves, or try to put on a facade. We in Argentina cannot even handle our own cases of corruption.
While we're at it, let's just abolish soccer altogether. Let Argentina be a moral beacon and win the World Cup in universal hypocrisy.
This article was originally published in Clarin, the most widely read newspaper in Argentina.
