Duel at a distance. As football is excited by the myth of the return (even if it is per person interposed), Messi at the altar of Maradona fired literature. We expected the party to give us scientific references of who was better. Seeing it as a duel was a somewhat ridiculous fantasy, because Maradona was sanctified in Naples over 25 years ago. The passage of time is the perfect escape: each one was the best of its time and something else butterfly. But football is not conciliatory and, already in the warm-up, Messi was greeted with the shout of "Diego, Diego, Diego". One vote in triplicate. The game did not change the perception because Barça played wide, Gattuso locked him in a cage and Messi is allergic to exhibitionism. Since the temporary alibi does not work, you have to go to the territorial one. In Argentina and Naples, competing against Maradona is impossible. The rematch, at the Camp Nou.
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Let's do justice with hate. Emotions have a good memory and Guardiola at the Bernabéu is no small thing to recreate the myth of the return. In this case, you just had to know the size of the antipathy. And also which was imposed on the three possible proposals. A quick examination leaves the following conclusions: that of being Mourinho's counterpart went into oblivion, his condition of Barcelona myth does not prescribe, but it is his declarations in favor of independence that have renewed irritation. It is a very current misunderstanding. Guardiola does not hold any public office and fame does not give anyone more wisdom, so that their opinion is worth one. It is those who give political significance to the words of a coach who amplify them and turn them into a manifesto. There is only one reason to hate him, the football master class that his teams give when they step on the Bernabéu.
Communicating wounds. Is it easier to fall defeated when there are internal problems, or is it easier to have internal problems when you fall defeated? The question is indifferent to Barça because both things happen to him. Drag wounds and suppurate when bad results arrive. Also when they get a good result after a bad game, as happened in Naples. There are strictly soccer wounds, because hundreds of millions in signings failed to adapt to a club that suffers from acute nostalgia. Disease that will only be cured by dancing to rivals and winning a sextet, as if Barça de Guardiola was replicable. And then there are institutional problems, where a bad communication is perceived, which does not convince the fans, who rediscovered the scarves, or the players, who do not hide their discomfort in the statements. The curious thing is that, due to the theory of communicating vessels, it has been Real Madrid that seems to have stayed with the problems. The classic is left to give them back.
Tell the football. Commentators are afraid to stay out of our time and make efforts to look modern. In the effort to find new features of the game, we discover insignificant details that have the defect of covering essential issues. Or we count old things with new words. What used to be low, medium or high pressure is now a high, medium or low block. Everything is block, as if a team were a lot of cement. Thus, we end up talking to coaches, forgetting that the audience is made up of more casual people. Our mission is to find the knot in the party, talk about the range of talents that decide much more than tactical drawings, or repair the telluric movements that produce moods. Find the epic that attracts emotion. Humanize football, in short, and accept its contradictions. Do not turn it into a scientific issue to get on the trend.
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