Víctor Font is one of those people for whom the accounts always seem to work out, as if they had a natural gift or a state-of-the-art processor embedded in their brain.
You see that sort of thing, if you know where to look.
It is not necessary to scrutinize the health of their businesses.
Nor ask about the profitability of their investments.
It is enough to observe him while he manages the menu of a restaurant, ordering starters and mains for everyone while the waiter takes the order, visibly satisfied with what he hears.
“Is that okay?” he asks out of sheer politeness.
And without waiting for confirmation, he rests his elbows on the table, crosses his fingers, partially covering his mouth, and turns the talk to his favorite topic: Barça.
Candidate Font —now converted into a calm opposition to Joan Laporta and visibly far from the apocalyptic vedetism of Toni Freixa— was betrayed by his clairvoyance to know the outcome of things.
For months he saw himself as the future president of Barça, his aspirations well supported by the demographic indicators with which his team works.
The social mass of Barça longed for change, spurred on by information about the club's deteriorating economic health, recurring scandals, Messi's burofax and still with Cruyff's resignation or Guardiola's goodbye embedded in the throat like fine fish bones , of those that allow you to breathe normally but without ceasing to bother.
Only one variable was missing from the equation: the strength of nostalgia.
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As soon as it was confirmed that Laporta would present his candidacy to succeed Bartomeu, the candidate Font understood that he had an almost impossible mountain ahead of him.
He could appeal to the break with the past, to the end of the isms, to a bold management, to the shared cruyffismo and to the endorsement of important voices of the barcelonismo, but neither did he see himself with possibilities of beating the memory of the best years of the Barça, that once again represented the former president, once his executioners were burned.
In that persecution of Laporta's legacy, by the way, a Víctor Font was never involved who, due to the logic of the electoral processes, began to be seen as a declared enemy of
Laportismo
.
Interviewed this week at SER, Font insisted on the benefits of the scrapped project, on its ability to modernize the club and activate levers other than those Laporta plans.
In his opinion, the president is prey to improvisation, something logical if we take into account his nature, but even for these reasons his opposition cannot be described as destructive.
The only question that arises is whether this is also part of his calculations to achieve a future presidency or if it all comes down to a mere matter of principle.
“ We are all
Laportistas
”, greets a passer-by who introduces himself as a follower of the current president: like it or not, he has nailed it again.
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