Post 7 (21-11) : Current Issues

Well, I´m going to write about football (as almost always in my blogs). Really I enjoy with football and I want to be a sports journalist, but not only talk about sports themselves, but about the social aspects that exist in the sports, especially in football.

For those who don´t know, this weekend the finale of the Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors y River Plate was suspended. The problem was that River fans threw stones and injured Boca players, even some players had cuts.

With respect to this problem, I want to say emphatically “no more violence”, no more violence in the stadiums and in the world. What happens with the society? Is not possible for a football match people try to kill the rival team. It sounds crazy!!

Many people have blamed the media because they said that this match was “the world final”, so this name caused that fans were violent. But I think this violence isn´t problem of the media or a problem of the politicians or the police. The problem is our society.

The system in which we are living has fallen in many violent acts. In my opinion facts like the murder of the police to the Mapuche Camilo Catrillanca is just one of the examples of this extreme violence that shows us that this is not just a football issue.

I just expect that the match is played in peace and that no more violence is generated.

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

It is difficult to thing about a postgraduate because I am just in my second year of my career: journalism. But if I had to choose a postgraduate, it would be sports Communicator in football.

I feel that this postgraduate was made for me. I like very much sports and football, and I want to be a sports journalist, but the problem was that in Chile didn´t exist that mention until I found this surprise course that teaches INAF (national football institute).

The postgraduate contains different subjects about communication and specially football and his history. But also there are courses about oral and writing expression and audiovisual communication.

However, there two problems in this postgraduate. First, it is very expensive, so I would have to save much money. The second problem is that it is full-time, therefore my time to work would be limited.

Anyway, I know that if I try hard I can study this postgraduate, although it´s just an option. Still my future is not decided.

My future job

Really, I had never thought about my future job, I only care about my classes and studies at the university. 

Therefore it is difficult to think about a future job but considering that I study journalism and I like the career very much I would like to work in a radio, especially in ADN Radio or in English DNA radio.

I would like to work there because I already worked a week there. In effect, when I was in my last year of high school. In my school they asked me to get a job for a week, well it was really a work practice.

During that week I learnt to edit audios, to write radio scripts and I also went to report with a journalist. I was really fascinated and from that experience I decided to study journalism.

Because I already have the experience, I believe that I would not have problems to work there, besides in the radio subject at the university I learnt much more about radio.

Finally I know that on the radio don´t pay much money and I don´t expect to become a rich person in that job, but I would be a very happy person and that is the most important thing in life.

My worst experience in a football stadium

This story is about my worst experience in a football stadium. This took place a few years ago, when I was 12 years old.

That day I went to National Stadium to see the team of my loves: Universidad de Chile. The team played against O’Higgins in a week day, therefore few people were going to attend.

However, that night 30 thousand people arrived to the stadium, but the problem was that only 20 tickets were sold, so there were 10 thousand people around the stadium who wanted to enter and I was one of them.

The situations became dangerous and the police didn´t know what to do. The fans were trying desperately to enter and the police were throwing water at us.

Suddenly a police car advanced towards an entrance of the stadium and broke it. The police were defeated and everyone took advantage of the moment and they entered.

After the fear that I felt, I saw the match quietly. My team lost 0-1. But after all I learnt that I must always go with a ticket to the stadium.

Sports Journalism in Chile

As I’m a journalism student, obviously I’m going to talk about journalism. But particularly I want to talk about sports journalism in Chile and the problem of approach that I think the media have.

In effect I believe that in Chile there is a problem because most media only talk about football in the sports section and the other sports are forgotten.

It seems that sports like handball, golf, volleyball or rugby don’t exist. But I’m sure that theses sports were shown in the media, people would see them. But the problem is that we are always shown the same.

Also this focus in football is only for men. If we make the exercise of to watch TV or to read the newspapers we can see that in general women are ignored. But fortunately in the last time the Chilean national women's team has appeared in the media, but I reiterate that only in football.

In the future, if I have the possibility of being a media editor, I would like to give emphasis to other sports and that women have more prominence.

THE BEST HOLIDAYS

I have not really had the opportunity to go to many concerts. But, on the contrary I am a very lucky person because I have had good holydays in my life. In effect I have travelled in some countries like Brazil and Argentina, but the best vacations were in Peru.

I went to Trujillo, a city in the north of Peru that has the largest clay city in the world and it was exciting. Also I went to Huanchaco beach and I ate a delicious typical meal.

But the true reason of my trip was because I went to know to meet my current girlfriend. Until that moment we only talked by chat and on that trip we met.

Well, going back to the holydays… I travelled alone in July 2016 with 18 years old recently and I endure a bus trip from Lima to Trujillo during 12 hours. But it was sacrifice that was rewarded.

After that trip I have travelled to Trujillo 3 times more and I have had the possibility of knowing many other places in Peru with my girlfriend. Really is a beautiful country.

A COUNTRY I'D LIKE TO VISIT

Honestly, I don´t have any country in particular that I would like to visit, because I want to go to many places in Europe. Maybe France, Germany, Spain or Netherlands could be some options. But if I had to choose just one country, I would choose England.

I only know a bit about England, I have heard some of its cities like London, Manchester and Liverpool because The Beatles were from there. But I don´t know anything else, so I think that it would was a good new experience.

I would separate my travel in two parts: in first place I would want to go to study English and when I improve my English I would study a short course relative to journalism.

And, in second place I want to visit England for its football stadiums. I love to see English football and one of my dreams is to travel for the world watching all the matches that I can.

I know that I need many money, but maybe in the future I can visit Europe and England. Hope is the last thing I lose.