UEFA has announced that France will organize Euro 2016 football championship.
Turkey has lost the final with just one vote of the UEFA committee with 13 members, but the result still shows that Europe is not the United States.
While America proves again and again that it's always ready to revitalize itself -from presidential elections to social trends- Europe is showing in every instance that it's keen to remain old.
France had organized this competition two times before. Moreover, they also organized a World Cup, in 1998. The bid of Turkey -that never organized this even- was the best one according to many international pundits.
However, a last minute intervention by the representative of Europe's current retardation, namely Nicolas Sarkozy, has clearly stolen a few votes for France.
Moreover, there was Michel Platini at the helm of UEFA. How the hell can the president of such a big organization announce that he wants his own country to organize this event, while he was supposed to be representing all member countries?
Dunno, it's Europe. It's not a people's continent, but a continent of a biased, prejudiced elite who are stuck in the past.
Awarding Turkey with this organization would not save the world, but it could indeed be the right decision -both in sports and political terms- with some symbolic meaning.
A meaning that may save Europe from the past, preparing it for the future...
A meaning that we've lost with one vote...
