A recent ad released for para-athletes by a French Sports Daily Newspaper, L’Équipe entitled ‘Shadows’ shows how physically impaired athletes make it big through paralympics. The ad features a team of visually impaired soccer players competing against professional players of the AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande team.
The players meet at a field ready to take up the challenge of a soccer game against each other, however there is a huge twist for the AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande players that awaits them. The lights are turned off, and the two teams are supposed to play a game of soccer in pitch darkness. Carefully making moves on sound of the soccer ball passing by them, for the para-athletes the game was a bunch of soccer tricks and required a lot of concentration and focus; something that they had already mastered over the years. However, for the team of AS Cecifoot de Saint-Mande players, the game was nothing but confusion and blinding darkness.
You might realize how we sometimes take our physical soundness for granted. Makes you wonder where do you stand without them?
