There are other positions in the team with the greatest urgency for an upgrade so if Ospina who was actually very good and performed superbly was upgraded
it means the ruthlessness in upgrading the other two positions needed should be very quick and forceful.
The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little
meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show
ruthlessness.