Don Luis Suárez: goodbye to a football legend, by Juan Cruz

She had a beige coat, her hair thrown back, her mouth half silent and about to chew on a memory. He opened it to smile, amazed, happy, when he had Gonzalo Suárez in front of him, that she was going to meet him after years without seeing each other. Don Luis Suárez hugged Helenio Herrera’s stepson, they talked about football from the first minute of the reunion, and it was as if they were going back to the Les Corts field to see how that Barça (Ramallets, Olivella, Gracia, until reaching Suárez and Czibor) reinvented football to put it at the feet of Kubala and the illustrious Galician who would be the only Spanish Ballon d’Or to date

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