Most sports certainly contribute to physical fitness – as do some other expressions of culture, such as ballet – but what we admire in a player who can do extraordinary things with a ball is a technique that is utterly useless outside the playing field and has taken thousands of hours of practice to bring to perfection.
Or, ce que nous admirons chez un joueur qui parvient à faire des choses extraordinaires avec sa balle, c’est sa technique. Mais, cette technique, qui a nécessité des milliers d’heures de pratique pour atteindre la perfection, s’avère totalement inutile hors du terrain de sport.