There has been an incredible development since I wrote the post about the Chilean miners!
In my post I commented on how the rescue demonstrated a prime example of teamwork being played out in a real world situation. Funnily enough, the miners and the rescuers then translated this teamwork back into the sporting world to play a game of soccer against each other! Read about it here.
It's significant that in order to celebrate the rescue and to hand out medals that the venue of a soccer stadium was chosen - and that the celebration was extended through an actual game of soccer. They could have chosen to go out to dinner, maybe catch a movie together, perhaps visit a nice art museum and serve drinks and mini appetizers... but in the end, all they really wanted to do was to play soccer. Playing a sport was determined to be the best way for them all to connect in a post-rescue situation.
Chalk up one point for sports being a way to establish a social connection! A lot of the time in the press we spend a great deal of time reporting on professional sports and other competitive organized sports, where money and trophies and other factors always play a part. However, the reality is that for the majority of people on this planet, participation in sports serves an almost purely social purpose. The social side of sports may not always be the sole factor in recreational participation in sports, but seldom is it absent and more often than not it does take center stage.
Take some inspiration from reading about the miners vs. rescuers soccer match, and go out and find a couple friends you've been meaning to catch up with and find some sort of athletic activity to do together! Go for a jog, kick around a football, play tennis... the beauty of the sporting world is that there are so many sports to choose from! Though as we can see from the Chilean miner story, in Chile, soccer is obviously king.
-DK
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