Let's abandon any banal introduction that serves to fill lines in this article. Real Madrid's continuous exploits this season in European competition are both unmatched and unimaginable. Any praise seems minuscule in the face of such overcoming displays. However, could they have been predicted? Let's take a step aside and within the entertainment sector let's …
Is there still Liga?
We are accustomed to praise silence when only noise is capable of swaying our convictions. We are in need of pause, surviving the hunt for an ultimatum, while only the rush inherent in walking over the wire enables us to show who we truly are. We live in a world in which only the present …
Florence, city of art and lights
Italy is an amazing country. In the day to day life of its streets is present the past on which they have been cemented. Each city in which you immerse yourself ridicules the beauty of your previous shipwreck. Venice, Rome or Milan are cities flooded with flattery that incite us to evade reality. Florence, however, …
Chase and create your opportunity
What if for a moment it were in our hands, in everyone's hands, to become professional football players? Let's imagine a society in which there are no innate abilities and we do not know luck. Everyone starting from the same starting point and each one choosing his or her more or less achievable goal. A …
Where is the limit?
What is the limit or the boundary where we stop seeing the footballer as a superhero and start considering him as an ordinary person? At the risk of being repetitive, please let's stop idealizing footballers. Let's stop praising them for the simple fact of entertaining us and end their label of untouchables. Differential treatment only …
This is not football, it must be something else
In this article I would like, in addition to being honest, to speak in first person about my experience in this sport. By proximity, here in Spain, the performance of La Liga should not go unnoticed. The management of Javier Tebas, despite not being a character worthy of my devotion, deserves all possible praise. He …
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Seville: War and theater
Why do we like football? 1. Because of its healthy, yet fierce competition, never resulting in battle. 2. For its implausible actions and dramatic denouements, never praising theatrics. Football is interesting enough without having to invade other arts. Last weekend we witnessed a certainly reprehensible act that took place in one of the most passionate …
The thin line
Competing, the thin line that separates courage from fear. The important thing has never been to win but to show your face and become the reflection of a good example / a good example in which to be reflected. The Spanish Super Cup that, sadly and without any sense beyond the economic one, began to …
Modern slavery: the deterrent power of termination clauses.
Within the surreal eccentricities that surround the circus generated by football, underneath the indecent amounts that are handled, a dark and retrograde reality is hidden. Football players are not free. They live trapped in cages whose bars are made of gold. You will think: blessed punishment, but there is nothing more unsettling than being held …
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Discovering Boxing Day
We are so immersed in the inconsequentiality of our routines that they no longer have any meaning or reason. Gone are the whys, whens and wheres. And the curious, at the risk of being persecuted, are in danger of extinction. My goal today is to show that the important thing is to give meaning to …