Heh, I hope nobody in their right mind does that :)
... I'd like to refer once more to the comparison to the army you made in your own post, because it seems to me much more appropriate now after I've thought about it, but in a different way. You can be discharged dishonourably from the army. You can be reduced in rank or removed from your post after an action that is deemed dishonourable.
And that is exactly it.
In the office or whatever other work place, you go and do your job, as you said, because you're paid to do just this job, and you have this post because you have studied more or longer than the others who work for you, because you have the knowledge and the skills and so on. You're paid more. And the others are paid to do their jobs.
The captain of a football team though is made captain, of course because of his experience and 'knowledge' and skills, but also because he is the leader and the other team members acknowledge him as just that. They follow him willingly, they respect him.
This is what it comes down to in the end. If the captaincy was taken away from him that does not mean he is fired from his actual job, because his actual job is being a footballer, an athlet, and that's all he's 'paid' to be. If he loses his captaincy it's only due to the fact that he's lost the respect of the others.
I might be made to agree with lovinthelads above who said he should give away his Captaincy himself, freely.
Yes, I think this is what he should do. He should consider where he stands and whether he is still in a place where he can expect from the other footballers to put their trust in him, to respect him completely and follow him without questioning him in their minds, without having to think twice about his motives, and without having to think of the way he behaved consciously betraying his team mate, betraying one of them.
He's lost a lot of what's made up his reputation as a captain and that is something he should definitely think over deeply.
Good points! I could see the logic and agree to him renouncing his captaincy, but I think that dropping him from the squad altogether - as I have seen mentioned in some quarters - would be going too far...
... I'd like to refer once more to the comparison to the army you made in your own post, because it seems to me much more appropriate now after I've thought about it, but in a different way.
You can be discharged dishonourably from the army. You can be reduced in rank or removed from your post after an action that is deemed dishonourable.
And that is exactly it.
In the office or whatever other work place, you go and do your job, as you said, because you're paid to do just this job, and you have this post because you have studied more or longer than the others who work for you, because you have the knowledge and the skills and so on. You're paid more. And the others are paid to do their jobs.
The captain of a football team though is made captain, of course because of his experience and 'knowledge' and skills, but also because he is the leader and the other team members acknowledge him as just that. They follow him willingly, they respect him.
This is what it comes down to in the end. If the captaincy was taken away from him that does not mean he is fired from his actual job, because his actual job is being a footballer, an athlet, and that's all he's 'paid' to be. If he loses his captaincy it's only due to the fact that he's lost the respect of the others.
I might be made to agree with lovinthelads above who said he should give away his Captaincy himself, freely.
Yes, I think this is what he should do. He should consider where he stands and whether he is still in a place where he can expect from the other footballers to put their trust in him, to respect him completely and follow him without questioning him in their minds, without having to think twice about his motives, and without having to think of the way he behaved consciously betraying his team mate, betraying one of them.
He's lost a lot of what's made up his reputation as a captain and that is something he should definitely think over deeply.
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