Feel like a world coach for a day. Imagine that you could choose the 11 best scientists in history and 9 other substitutes and place them in different positions on the soccer field. This is the choice that we have made together with The Creative Being.
A good goalkeeper must be agile and flexible. A good striker must be quick and explosive. A midfielder must have a prodigious brain. A lane must know how to run close to the side line …
And it is that, as Joaquín Zulategui, president of El Ser Creativo, explains, it is “a list of players who have allowed our society to evolve to what it is now and without whom the advancement of humanity would not have been possible and much less, to be able to watch a football match live thousands of kilometers from the place where it is played ”. Here’s our historical lineup of world science:
1.- The “Monkey” Darwin (Charles Darwin) . Nobody like him, a true ape father of the Theory of Evolution, to hang from the crossbar and prevent the ball from entering the goal with his long legs.
2.- Georg Simon Ohm . A very tough defense. This German physicist and mathematician was key in the world of electricity by formulating the famous Ohm’s Law, which states that the intensity of an electric current is given by its electromotive force and its resistance. Can you imagine someone better to prevent the forwards from scoring?
3.- Louis Pasteur . Known by all for its bad milk … well, rather, for inventing a method to get rid of microorganisms from it that could degrade it in the process known as pasteurization. Let the forwards dare to cross their path!
4.- Albert Einstein . It seems that it leaves room for the opponents to pass, but no! Everything is relative! The theory of Relativity is your best weapon to shrink spaces and prevent strikers from sneaking in.
5.- Santiago Ramón y Cajal . This Spanish doctor is the brain of the team. After years of studying the brain and neurons, who better than him to lead the team’s game? It is sure that it connects perfectly with the rest of the “squadra” as if it were a neuron at full capacity.
6.- Galileo Galilei . As if the planets were treated, the rest of the players orbit around them. He is the perfect match for CerebroCajal in midfield. Many will say that he is a bit old to play for a national team (he was born in 1554), but science does not understand ages.
7.- Werner Heisenberg . Despite being a somewhat uncertain player, the German physicist is key within the team because, as if it were the eyes of Guadiana, he can appear at any time and decide a match. He is also a natural winner, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, which is great for motivating the whole team.
8.- Erwin Schrödinger. Everyone has talked about him this season, he even appeared in an episode of the famous series The Big Bang Theory thanks to his famous cat and his contributions to quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. It was not surprising that he ended up being selected to play the World Cup.
9.- Alessandro Volta . As a good Italian, he is temperamental and energetic. And even more since he developed the electric battery back in the year 1800. In fact, even the famous volts of the International System of Units to designate the electric potential are called by their name. The national team needed someone like him up front.
10.- Samuel Morse . “You run the line up and down, never go to the penalty spot!” Nobody like him to differentiate lines and points, which makes him the perfect lane for either side.
11.- Alfred Nobel . Swedish by birth, he is a very versatile player. Throughout his life he was everything: chemist, inventor, engineer, weapons manufacturer … which serves as a wild card in the attacking trident. However, the coach has not only noticed his ability to change position, but also his explosiveness has been valued because, as the inventor of dynamite, much is expected of him in this championship. Obviously everyone will remember him for the famous accolades that bear his name, the Nobel prizes.
12.- Alexander Fleming . It moves like a bacteria, silent and deadly in the area. He’s the perfect replacement for the electric Volta should you need an elusive striker.
13.- Alexander Graham Bell . It was the great surprise of the selection, because the Italian Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone, although Bell ended up obtaining the patent in America in 1876, was also in the bets to end up in the selection of science. The coach’s decision has also been influenced by the many other inventions that Graham Bell developed throughout his life as well as his being one of the founders of the National Geographic Society.
14.- Thomas Alva Edison . This Ohio-born American, although he has been the most prolific inventor in history, was only able to go to school for three months. Of course, when the lightbulb of imagination is turned on there is no one to stop him, neither on nor off the pitch.
15.- Nikola Tesla . An electromagnetic guy, no doubt. It is pure electricity in the field, although outside it also made its first steps in electrical distribution systems. The great height (he measures almost 2 meters) of this Austro-Hungarian born in a town currently located in Croatia can totally unbalance a match at any corner kick. Let’s hope that his eternal fight with Edison does not come to blows and affect the proper functioning of the team.
16.- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz . His good football spreads like the electromagnetic waves he discovered in 1885. So important were the investigations of this German physicist that a unit of measurement was named in his honor, that of frequency, the hertz.
17.- John Dalton . Although he doesn’t distinguish colors very well due to his deuteranopia (a type of color blindness), he is a guy with great game vision. So much so that the famous color blindness bears that curious name in his honor.
18.- Ivan Pavlov . You put a ball in front of him and he starts salivating like a hungry dog. This Russian born in 1849 is a lover of football and medicine. In fact, in this world he hopes to consecrate himself as he did in 1904 in the field of science by obtaining the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on gastric juices and the digestive system.
19.- Benjamin Franklin . Despite being one of the founding fathers of the United States, there has been no push for his election as one of the great historical figures of science worldwide. He is an electric player in attack and, as the inventor of the lightning rod, he can “dry out” any opposing player who comes in front of him, which makes him a perfect wild card player for both defense and attack.
20.- Charles-Agustin de Coulomb . The law of attraction between charges that he himself described in the 18th century states that negative charges attract positive charges and vice versa. Well, as if his foot were a positive charge and the ball a negative charge, there is no one who takes the ball off his side, which makes him a lethal player on long counterattacks. It is pure heavy artillery in the final minutes of matches, when teams are broken and a counterattack can decide a tie.
