Another boy: will Isco return to enjoying football in Sevilla? | Israel today

It will be very difficult to find a player in the world today whose gap between the titles he shared and the painful discourse surrounding him is as great as Isco.

The Spanish midfielder who celebrated his 30th birthday in April managed to lift during his last nine seasons in the Real Madrid uniform 5 European Champions Cups, 3 Spanish championships, the Copa del Rey, and quite a few secondary titles that always put him in the most beautiful frame in football - where he stood alongside his friends , the confetti was scattered over their heads and the smiles stretched from ear to ear, but in recent years, those smiles hid quite a bit.

In the 2012/13 season when Isco starred in Malaga, was considered the most exciting talent in Europe and even won the Golden Boy title, it was clear that he would reach the top of European football.

He danced on the field, not only as a cliché, he twisted his opponents' necks, ankles and he looked with the ball like a ballet dancer out of control.

At the end of that season, he landed in the white uniform of Real and it seemed that he would become its engine for years to come.

Unfortunately, like quite a few other players who came to the Bernabeu as a great promise, he did not maintain stability nor discourse in the media throughout his time there, because he showed a lack of professionalism and an unsportsmanlike lifestyle, which almost always kept him from stealing the show.

After the first years, which received warm treatment from Carlo Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane, came a sharp crash.

In the last 4 seasons, also due to injuries, he went and almost completely lost his place.

In the 2018/19 season he only started in 11 league games, in 2019/20 in 15, in 2020/21 he only started in 8 and last year he started in only 3 games, he was involved in 14 in total And he didn't even once complete 90 minutes with the Blancos.

Isco with the Sevilla crowd, photo: Reuters

This summer, when his contract in the capital city ended, it was also clear to Real, but especially to him that he must take a step to try and return to that ability from the days in Malaga and decided to sign in Seville - perhaps the best place to be in Spain, apart from Real and Barcelona.

Isco was wanted by quite a few teams on the continent and knew that his next destination had to be chosen carefully.

So he thought, and if you look at it now, on paper he made a great decision.

He arrives at the standard of a star, who is expected to see quite a few minutes.

He knows Juan Lopetegui who coached him in the youth team of Spain, he is highly appreciated by the professional manager of the Andalusians - Monchi - and he bought the fans already in his first minutes at the introduction of the players last week.

"I chose Sevilla among the multitude of offers I have because at the sporting level this is what interested me the most. This is a team that competes for titles, that wants to play good football, plays in the Champions League, a club that is growing all the time," he told them and made them continue to dream of a historic title in "La league".

"This is the best team to show my football again. I want to keep winning and really want to show what I have and that I never lost it."

In the end Isco's last sentence is the most important sentence.

The age of 30 is still a young age for a footballer in the modern era and also the 53 goals he scored and his 56 assists in 352 games at Real can give it the most moving statistical advantage that football has.

And quite a bit.

Monchi, perhaps the best professional manager in the world, has seen quite a few players come and leave Sevilla throughout his years at the club and he also couldn't hide his feelings.

In an interview with Diario Sport, he went so far as to compare Isco's arrival to Diego Armando Maradona's arrival at Sevilla, exactly 30 years ago in the summer of 92 after being dumped from Napoli, when Isco was 4 months old.

Isco with Monchi.

The professional manager was hanged on tall trees, photo: AFP

"We are always looking for players with something special, like Maradona. We like to develop an attractive game to allow players of tremendous quality to develop their football, here we have an environment that helps people with talent to show it."

Isco, far from being the Argentine phenom, is rightly regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play the game, but just by the fact that Monchi puts them on the same list, only heightens the expectations for new man Bramón Sanchez Pijuan.

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