Though it may be true half of the time, “sports unite nations” is mostly a cliché that had been utilized to the hilt through the years; at times just to add theme to a sporting event and then nothing more, like school graduation ceremonies, they always have to have a theme etched in cardboards with close parenthesis and pasted on stage foregrounds.
But this time, sports can actually unite a nation, even for just a moment. When the Iraqi national football (soccer) team clinched the Asian Cup last night, Shiites in southern Iraq went to the streets to celebrate the win by a team composed mainly by Arab sunnis and a lone Kurdish player. And all over Iraq, it was observed that general violence were absent for nearly a day. Now that’s sports not only for unity, but also for peace in a place where peace is but a strange idea.
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