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2023-05-19T11:08:47.135Z

Highlights: Only 72 hours ago Barça celebrated the League title and almost without respite is already in the box of what will be next season. City barely have time to celebrate the pass to the final: the Premier League and the FA Cup await before facing Inter. Milan rebuilt almost from its ashes that looked out to the semifinals of the Champions League to green old laurels. All the Rossoneri illusions went down the drain almost in the first 20 minutes of the tie as if the loss of Leao had meant a crisis of self-esteem.


Only 72 hours ago Barça celebrated the League title and almost without respite is already in the box of what will be next season. City barely have time to celebrate the pass to the final: the Premier League and the FA Cup await before facing Inter


You may remember that song in which Victor Jara told us that life is eternal in five minutes. It belonged to the mythical song I remember you Amanda and has been accompanying me for many, many, many years.

Those five magical minutes in which all life is summarized and, in turn, is summarized represent very well the fast, scintillating times, a sigh, in which the football of these times of the XXI century has become.

Only 72 hours ago that Barça celebrated with his rua the achievement of the League title and almost without respite is already in the box of what will be next season, its template, the exits and future entries as if the present, that in which Ter Stegen and with him his whole team aspires to achieve a stratospheric record of clean sheets, That present was almost past. They had hardly gotten off the festive bus that more than two players felt invisible hands that gently pushed them out of that cheerful vehicle, but almost put their bags at the airport to go looking for their next destination. Without those modesty that we had not so long ago that advised us to let us enjoy the moment, the present for later, once the emotions rested, start talking about new horizons, new projects.

If you want another example, see that Milan rebuilt almost from its ashes that looked out to the semifinals of the Champions League to green old laurels, some of which I had had to live in the painful first line of fire. All the Rossoneri illusions went down the drain almost in the first 20 minutes of the tie as if the loss of Leao had meant a crisis of self-esteem so great that the options were extinguished almost before being able to warm the spirits of his followers. Today, 48 hours after the elimination, it is already said that the Milan project is in crisis and its legendary manager Paolo Maldini seems to have to make excuses for the situation when 72 hours ago he was the hero of Milan's return to the European front line.

We already know that, sometimes, the perception of time is enormously subjective. I say this because Real Madrid spent the first 45 minutes as if they were five, such was the intensity, the pace, the speed at which City proposed to play the decisive second leg of the Champions League semifinals. It seemed that Guardiola continued to base his game on order and structure.

And this time the last and miraculous five minutes only served for Julián Álvarez to demonstrate his exceptional relationship with the goal and send to save in the Madrid net the first ball he touched raising the fourth to his marker.

More than five minutes, but do not believe that much more, that the Premier League is coming to win it, has City to savor this qualification for the Champions League final, the one in which it will come out with the label of favorite against Inter, but in which the interistas will try to assert all their history in the Champions League tournament. Now, five eternal minutes after the end of the game, City envision a season finale that can be historic with three major titles, Premier, FA Cup and Champions within reach. Inter dreams meanwhile of greening laurels and taking the Orejona to Milan that wears blue and black. Who knows what we will say five minutes after each of those decisive matches.

PS: apologies to all those who feel uncomfortable for linking the mythical Victor Jara with the banalities of football.

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