May the god of Tegueste bless this 18-year-old boy who has come to Barça to reinvent a talisman that the team he founded has sometimes enjoyed Joan Gamper. In my time of life as a son of that spell that had Kubala already Luis Suarezlike high priests who were clouded by the defeat in Bern, it was these two calm geniuses who aroused such enthusiasm that even the defeats were epic episodes in their history that we would later remember as we remember the precise goal of Evaristo in the semifinal that had Real Madrid as a victim.
Then came other cases of unanimity (!Cruyff, nothing less!) around flashes that line up in the team that this last Thursday gave the fans the feeling that that downhill that began in the Lisbon earthquake was already history. An older Barcelona fan friend told me: “Let’s see, it was a mirage.” In recent times we have had many mirages, but the truth is that we need them to feel that this return to the ring of the abyss that we have lived since before it left is over Messi.
Messiby the way, was, after Kubala and Suarez and Cruyff, the most illustrious footballer of the unanimity. Raised in the Masía, admired since he was a child as an outstanding player, he represented a way of playing that was accompanied by other successive unanimity made to wear Barça. Iniesta, Xavi… the baton of Guardiolaso different from the one you used Helenio Herrera, made of that combination of players, with Puyol and with other stars who completed a firmament of unrepeatable moment, a harmonious team, an aesthetic that now seems like it was a dream. There was the unanimity in person, Leo Messi, which prolonged at Barça the feeling that life was eternal. It wasn’t, but in the dream, that is to say, in the part of the dream that memory has, that Barça is indelible, so people believe that they will get up from the nightmare and, perhaps in the summer, they will see Barça again. Messi azulgrana dress. Summer dreams.
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But here we already have another reason for unanimity, the one that unleashes pedrison of Fernando Gonzalez, who saw him grow up showing him the Barça photographs that adorn his good inn in Tegueste. As an adolescent flash who already remains a full-fledged man, he has attracted, for example, this eulogy written by Jorge Valdano in his column in El País, based on the memory of his own Xavi Hernandez: «Xavi tells us that pedrimore flea than Messi, is the best. Probably because he recognizes pedri to the player that he was: one who knows the science of a game in which you have to move the ball with cunning and chess intelligence. pedri It is always where it should (…) The advantage of being born knowing ».
They say Xavi and ValdanCan you ask for more to unanimously declare the praise that Tegueste’s talisman deserves? It is no longer a mirage, it is the mainstay of a new Barça that hopefully one day will be like the best of times.