In any Arab country, so many married couples get divorced like in Egypt. The fanatical man love for soccer is to blame. A fight between wife and ball.

The final whistle sounds, stunned eyes stare to the canvas at the taped up just yet hopeful eyes. Shock, the hope is buried under a single whistle, under a sheet. Silence, the impossible has become true. The Association of the heart has lost all decisive battle.

The world of football is a private Cosmos, a parallel world, which is a bizarre affair for the uninitiated. Only a few verbs that are necessary to describe the peculiar species of football fans are cheer and shout, cheer and curse, happy and cry. For every game, gather the followers like lemmings in dark, smoke-filled pubs, dignified present the Jersey of their clubs on their chest. Beer drinking at home let their good manners. Football is a man's sport, the Nite guys return the proudly outward, secluded from the outside world.

The special thing about this peculiar genus: Exist everywhere in the world, description is universal, only alcohol is missing in some places, neatly mobbed men who molested is nevertheless. » We are football «the genus combines worldwide, makes cultural differences fade. But while football as a social norm is recognized in our latitudes, the life of the species of the football fans ruled in Egypt of the sport. It is an escape from the dreary everyday life, a break from the male life full of financial worries, a valve against the economic swoon. In the role of the fans aggression can be dismantled, to the frustration of the soul yelled at - a door that remains locked in everyday life.

Football is a religion

When I went through my first Bundesliga and with her became the Champions League, I, how dense pleasure and pain can lie together. The great excitement and the amounts of adrenaline, which are awarded on a gate, just like the deep pain, but a goal if the opposing team. You feel personally attacked the day-long bad mood in a crucial defeat, as well as the terrible comments of others you entered under insults, finally. Suddenly, I realised how misunderstood are men in the world of women. » Is just a game ", it means facing uncomprehendingly. By due! It is seriously pleased or seriously grieved, fun is here understood not.

The following situation is known both sexes: football games are non-negotiable deadlines. There is no discussion, no exception, football is a religion, the games such as the compulsory course in the Church or just the mosque. The loving husband becomes a hooked fan. Expectations and anticipation of the game determine the day victory or defeat decide the mood after the game. Love is like a Russian roulette, it is no longer his own fortune, decide that others do when: 22 men and a ball.

In Egypt women have possessed full muzzle spouses from football. You have tired to determine their football lives. And the women on the Nile also really don't have it: together laboriously saved money for the holiday or less luxury goods the faithful fan invested rather in the sought-after Stadium visits. And if the money is spent, he sits in vest dressed at home and fires his boys, in football must be exactly together, so among men. For love, because little time remains, that got the wife to understand.


There can be no compromises

But the uncomprehending woman wants to understand: pulls in the fight against the ball, wants to stamp out the genre of football fans, but without success. The Egyptian man can not take his soccer, tired has the nagging wife. He feels misunderstood, threatened in his world. In football, there can be no compromise, the divorce is the last resort.

About the rising divorce rate responsible have silent long, about the reasons also. And in fact the majority of divorced couples in Egypt consist of a fanatical football fan and an uncomprehending wife - football as the biggest enemy of love.

While the divorce rate for each football season has boom, the question how much football in a relationship may be actually remains. Love has a chance if the species of the fans in his world for themselves alone celebrates the passion, the partner does not share the veneration of his club? The answer is no. This is not about to do, but must. Not the football kills the marriage, but the horned wife in the fight against the ball. While the love is based on compromises, there can be none in football. At the end, she can only learn to understand that soccer just is not a game.