Eliezer González was thoughtful about the performance of the Huayramarcan National Team, pondering their performance through the entire World Cup Qualifiers, he noted that in their six played games, they won 90% of their points away, while on home only a minimum of 10% were earned, he also analyzed the patter of the other teams with similar amount of points as Huayramarca currently possesses, the Condors were the ones with the fewest points at home of them all. Some visible annoyance was then observed at his eyes, the president of Huayramarca, Hugo Mina approached to González and asked “What’s on your mind?” the HFF head was frank and said “We’ve won only 1 point out of 9 at Huayramarca, while we’re running perfectly when we go abroad, I wonder what’s going on?” Mina was cold and only said “That’s your own issue, you’re supposed that this team should be playing somewhat decently to make people turn their noses away from politics, while we slowly marginalize them, esos serranos color zapato.”1 While he walked away. González tried in vain to talk with Mina once again, he had to seek for an excuse that might attract his attention as soon as possible,
The HFF would figure out a key phrase, “Serranos color zapato” he repeated three times on his mind, he suddenly snapped his fingers and had a “brilliant” idea, he ran through the players and press and reached the president, a bodyguard pointed him with a gun and said “Are you sure that you want to kill him?” González said “Señor presidente” Mina turned and he said “What’s going on!” González let his idea go to the ears of Mina in a pervasive and alarmed way “We have found that a Serrano buried on the main stadiums of this nation some frogs and Inti’s images with his head upside down” Mina, in his clear anti-serrano crusade on mind for his political platform seemed really interested on what González said, he knew that football and beliefs could turn into a very dangerous cocktail yet beneficial for his ideas against them. “Repeat that again” said Mina, González did it as requested “Serranos buried frogs under the pitch of this stadium, the Estadio Nacional and at the Metropolitano, also, Inti’s images upside down.” Mina pressed his fist, and said “This is my time.”
The frogs buried and Inti’s images upside down are a symbol for bad luck and desire for death to the ones where those objects were found, so the implications of this would be strong for a society known for being so traditional and sticky with their beliefs as the Huayramarcan one. Mina saw how the general condemn from the Jungle and Coast would go directly against Serranos, specially the ire of Coastals, who are highly antipathetic with Serranos. A plot that could change things all of a sudden in favor of Mina’s pro-coast agenda was a real chance, he called the press to give an improvised conference while González asked people to find those frogs and Intis.
May be a potential farce, yet González knew that it’d be possible considering that he was in Sechura, at the Jungle, frogs are often found there a lot and would be a remote chance to find one buried, while he sent some people to buy Inti images to the nearest supermarket in order to alter the real situation. The HFF personnel came with the Intis, excavated the pitch and threw them upside down while the press was away, casually, some frogs were close and they killed those and threw them into the potholes in the pitch.
Mina was on press, now with the entire media of Huayramarca close while delivering a quick speech “Dear Huayramarcans” said hypocritically, today, we were noticed that the Huayramarcan NT poor performance at home might be due to a Serrano that buried down frogs and upside down Intis into the pitch, we’ve got that evidence with the modern CCTV system installed in this sports venue.” The media tried to question Mina about said accusations against a general group of a nation, (to clarify, Serranos are approximately the 45% of the entire Huayramarcan population) Mina interrupted them and said, “Go there” while pointing with his index finger “There are two, three, oh, six potholes all across the field” The media went where Mina told them to go, they saw how the potholes had the things like he said, frogs, specifically H uayramarcan Fighting Frogs and the pictures of the main entity for the Huayramarcan mythology. Press took photos, the reporters were pushing one to the other to get the best angle possible and put that into the rotative printers for the next day… “Panem et circenes”.
González was laughing, he did what he needed to excuse himself with the president, but also created the spark for a big mess in Huayramarca, a mess that history could categorize depending on its magnitude. Hugo Mina wasn’t a person to trust on, though, but he did touch his sensible fibers when he said “Serrano” now, he was calmed since he wouldn’t be fired by the president itself. The press continued to take pictures while González was leaving, a journalist tried to talk with him, González cut him off by saying “I’m speechless, we have to be united in sport and we found this, this is abominable.” He left while attending a call on his phone, Mina was calling him and he had to answer, he ran to a water closet, turned a faucet on and talked “Mr. President, that might be the cause” Mina said “Thanks, good job on finding that!” “Now, we shall send somebody to inspect the other venues and see what’s going on there.” “Ok” answered González, while planning his next move.
González would fear to be found as a liar, hence, he needed to move some contacts at the Coast and Sierra in order to put the frogs and Inti’s images buried down, he phoned them in order to ask for the burying to be done before the night, while sending some bribes into the bank accounts using the weak wi-fi connection enabled to his personal laptop. González knew that Mina would reward him heavily after that, while the National Team image would improve according to him, since they would be able to earn more wins at home hopefully.
The HFF manager went to the hotel at Sechura, decided to stay away from the flashlights for some hours, meanwhile, he would like to observe the situation from outside and see how things develop, in order to plan his next move, which was a completely imprudent yet somewhat effective for marketing in favor of the national team from inside and outside Huayramarca.
González woke up early, he went to the hotel's reception and asked for the newspaper, he took it and read the first page, meanwhile, the hotel staff was staring at him, apparently, the rumor that it was a fake situation arrived to the local people in Sechura by a whistleblower, those which are pretty common in the Huayramarcan interior.
Huayramarcan NT bad luck attributed to frogs and and Inti's images upside down.
González: "We have only earned 10% of our total amount of points currently, we should find the root cause for this, even if Serranos are into it."
He was decontextualized, the press put words at his mouth, words that he never expected that would be there and that could be somewhat harmful for his project into the Huayramarcan Football Federation, there was needs that needed to be solved in order to keep the national team into the public eye, but not things that could affect the institution and team in their reputation as people or organization in the nation.
Mina was called by González, the president said “We will scale this up, Serranos should be reprimanded for this, since your complaint was true, there were buried things on Guayaquil and into the Estadio Nacional, which means that perhaps that was the situation that affected our national team.” González said “Nice! But there’s something I need to talk with you, El Clarinero put inappropriate words in my mouth, I’m sure you’ve already read that.” Mina answered “I did, and I’ve already asked El Clarinero to clarify this, we need that the Condors have a great image in between the people, I won’t tolerate a risk for our common plans.”
With this, the plan to attempt an improve of the image of the Huayramarcan National Team has begun, with a risky move and probably with repression against Serranos by the mere fact that the president just wants to kill them all and turn them into chaufa2.
1. Literally means "Shoe-colored Serrano." Used as a racial slur against Serranos, the inhabitants of the Huayramarcan highlands (known as Sierra).
2. Chaufa is a mixture of Eastern Québécois and Huayramarcan cuisine, it consists in RL Chinese food mixed with Andean ingredients such as potatoes, ají Amarillo (yellow pepper) and egg.
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