Opposites attract. In a sport dominated by emotions, sometimes their absence is the only way to govern. We are in a transitional stage. Gone are all those references that left us stunned under their intoxicating game. Today's soccer is vaguely reflected in the sobriety of its players and their actions. Insight and imagination have been …
How difficult it is to be rich. A truth as simple as it is materialistic. A truth that hides two dark realities: it is as complex to get to the top as it is to stay there. In this article I would like to exemplify both realities by giving them a name and surname: Serge …
Neither cyborgs nor superheroes. Football should tell the story of ordinary people who, after years of hard work, are able to build their own armor and become indestructible on the pitch. We fans do not like things to come out the first time. On the contrary, what comes easy, goes easy. So, the more complicated …
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Football survives eternal and sustained disappointments based on happy fleeting endings. How far away we feel the illusions of a past that was always better, while agony seems to take hold of us. In no case do I seek to discredit a European competition, which discovers promises and uncovers territories covered by the mantle of …
After the irruption of new and multiple competing options to football within the entertainment industry, I consider it attractive to bring up an unusual fact to date in the history of our beloved sport: the extinction of close scores and subsequent celebrations. Despite being somewhat related, a closed match is not the same as watching …
A new day is leaving and with it the agony of football fans who breathe a sigh of relief with the start of a new competition. It is not just any tournament since, beyond its international caliber, it will be the first to be played entirely with fans in the stands, an irreplaceable element for …
A totally atypical transfer window is approaching, marked by commercial relations that bear an enormous parallel to distant times when barter was the main exchange currency. Gone are those markets in which desire, lust for power and spending went hand in hand. Sad or not, perhaps necessary, any speculation about a bombastic signing will turn …
Renew or die. Under this avant-garde premise, clubs face the return to the longed-for but distant normality. A whole season in silence seems like an eternity when it comes to an extremely passionate sport. Just as rivers are made to carry water, stadiums have the mission of welcoming and being home to all those who …
"Football is a sport invented by the English, they play eleven against eleven and Germany always win". Or in this case, Bayern Munich. This week took place the competition whose aim of crowning the best club in the world. However, sportingly speaking, the best teams globally do not participate in it. The most exotic and …
August 23rd, 2020. Estadio da Luz in Lisbon. Bayern was crowned champion of the continental competition by beating PSG's petrodollars thanks to a goal from Kingsley Coman. Less than four months later we meet again in the head-to-head matches. No more tests, it is sudden death. Who will win this compact edition of the Champions …
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