Considering immortality, by Josep Maria Fonalleras

On St. George’s Day 2018, the Girona F.C. He presented the members with a booklet that contained a story that was halfway between science fiction and grotesque comedy. It was called ‘Pellroges to New York’ and it explained the wonderful Girona fans disembark at Yankee Stadium to attend the final of the Champions of 2021. It was literary nonsense based on the euphoria of the club’s first season in the top flight.

Then came moments like the dramatic return to Second and they had to overcome some reefs that not even Ulysses suspected could exist between Scylla and Charybdis: Two years ago, on matchday 12, Michel’s Girona was in a relegation position to First Federation. Two years later, on the same day, He is a First Class leader and more than one has remembered that I tell it as if it were a premonition: the wet dream of being champions or, at least, of playing in the Champions League.

Girona took the lead during the city’s festivities, which celebrate the miracle of Saint Narcissusa patron more legendary than real who scared away the French invaders, from the grave, with a call for stupid flies. The members of the group Young Girona They made a giant ‘tifo’ with the image of the saint and with a motto taken from his ‘Jozos’ that said: “Fighting bravely, defend us night and day”. This may be the only certainty that the fan now has.

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“We are made of the same stuff as dreams,” wrote Shakespeare, but the people of Girona are afraid and respectful of dreaming of great deeds and they know that being first is defended with courage and with a little heavenly help, with play and with humility. But the little ones, all wearing the shirt at school, already believe they are immortal, as is inscribed in the city’s heraldry.

By the way, the teacher Salvador Macip, an eminent scientist and also a football lover, experienced first-hand, in 2016, Leicester’s heroics. He now he has brought out a book called ‘The secret of the eternal life’. And he has stated that “considering immortality is no longer impossible.” One of these days I will ask him if he was talking about Girona.

2023-11-10 18:00:32
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