The central defender’s father has been omnipresent during the presentation of his son and has shown great complicity with Laporta and Jordi Cruyff
He was a professional goalkeeper at Brondby, trained in the lower categories of the Danish club and then served as a ‘scouter’ for Chelsea
In the presentation by Andreas Christensen, omnipresent, dressed in a suit, attentive to everything, was the figure of Sten. The patriarch closely followed all his son’s movements, was chatting at all times with Laporta, Jordi Cruyff and Enric Masip. Corpulent, gray hair, a kind of George Clooney in a Scandinavian version.
He joked with Laporta, with whom he seemed to have made very good friends. In fact, while his son was putting on his shirt to reappear on the green of Campo Tito Vilanova and perform the pertinent touches and the rondo with the boys and girls of the FCB Escola, he took ‘Jan’ to meet the family. His wife, Andreas’s wife, his newborn nephew. The president was chatting and joking with everyone and Sten acted as master of ceremonies.
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‘His fault’ that Christensen is where he is right now. Or good part. This stocky Dane was a professional goalkeeper. He played for Brondby, one of the greats in the country. And then he spent many years training the goalkeepers of the lower categories and the first team. In fact, until 2018 he worked with the goalkeepers of the capital team. A discreet career as a player, but that after all has always kept him linked to elite football. Proud of Andreas, who has already managed to lift a Champions League and who has played, nothing more and nothing less, than for Chelsea and Barça. Two of the greats.
Serious and sober, like his son, Sten and the family have declined to take the photos on the grass with Andreas, as Kessié did yesterday. They have preferred to flee from the spotlight and give all the prominence to their son. Already in the press room, Sten has continued to control everything. Attentive. To each question. to each answer. A father, without a doubt, delivered.