Barça is naked

Juan Cruz

08/08/2021 4:57 PM

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Updated 08/08/2021 4:57 PM

The first image that caught our attention yesterday morning, when in a function room of the Nou Camp, in Barcelona, ​​a large squad of journalists and Barça executives, including President Laporta and coach Koeman, were waiting for the eldest Soccer legend, along with Maradona, was

the disturbing movement of a doorknob

.

Through that door that could not decide to open, as if it were guarding

the fish tank of a rebellious fish

, an indecisive doorknob was struggling, which a small child seemed to be manipulating from the other side. Something of that had to happen, because after a while the happy doorknob gave way and first Laporta appeared, tying his mask and seconds later Messi's little children emerged, with their mother, until, finally, from that wooden luggage and floor he made his entrance the hero of so much success and of this stellar and sad moment, his

farewell to the team in which he became hyper-famous and, in addition, a billionaire

.

It was evident that there, inside that hall from which the Argentine star came, they had not been able to calm the suffocation that later produced a

tremendous llantina, which lasted much longer than the closed applause

that the entire room (the journalists too) dedicated to him not only to that he knew how much he is loved (how much we love him, go ahead) but also, or above all, so that at some point he calms down and begins to speak through that mouth that has made silence one of the arguments that gave rise to interpret it as Christ.

Finally Messi broke down to speak, like that Atahualpa Yupanqui who had his companions in the gathering at the Café Gijón in Madrid on edge, silent for hours of an Argentine discussion, until finally, opening his mouth to the general expectation, he gave the following argument: "What they say explains that in this country whoever does it pays."

And it was no different what the extraordinary player said, whom Barça fans (and not only) love with our hearts.

when he addressed himself, immediately sober with sobs, to a crowd of those from before.

Actually, and this is interesting for the present history of journalism,

Messi asked more questions than answers

in his historic appearance. The journalists asked him about everything, naturally, it is his obligation, although his obligation should not be to advance in each issue the congratulations for his brilliant career; But it was Rosario's that to each of the questions asked about the possible culprits of his march, he included among the usual suspects, directly, President Laporta, who two days before had said that the money that had to be paid to the A footballer was unattainable for the club, and to which Jorge Messi's son explained, as peripheral, that they never addressed him to find out if more money could be taken from his pocket.

That was one of his key questions, to open, surely, as a major culé told me shortly after the appearance, what should be an investigation in the form of at least all the journalists present, helped by a legion of those who They could not enter, based on this premise: Why did

n't Laporta call him

to find out how much he would be willing to sacrifice himself for?

In the midst of this universe of dimes and tellings that now opens up about Messi's past and future, the newspaper

AS

, which is made in Madrid and circulates around the world, published a short article by a legendary Argentine editor and writer, the nonagenarian Abrasha Rotenberg, father as well as other legendary Argentines, Cecilia and Ariel Rot.

In this film of the deeds and the words that Messi is already the case, the veteran Abrasha came up with an observation like that of the child in the Danish tale, that the king is naked. He did not say exactly that, since it is evident that Laporta and the Barcelona Football Club are

naked from top to bottom and from behind and in front

.

What he wondered, to further undress the plot of this novel, is why the legendary footballer, who says he loves Barça's past so much, which has had him on the verge of success,

did not take off all his salary a

few years not to have to mourn his farewell. At the time that this beautiful domanda was being printed, as the Italians say, Messi gathered at his home in Barcelona

a huge party

that the chronicles do not say

that tears came out but laughter and parties

.

In the midst of this quilombo, seeing Messi cry so much has been interpreted by culés, and not only, as part of a film that, even looking black and white, is in technicolor and de luxe and will end, like that beautiful metaphor of Bogart in the middle of the war, flying to Paris from France.

Behind will have been, naked, Barça and Laporta.

Shivering with cold in the heat of heat and grabbing the doorknob to

close the fucking door at once

.

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