When Isco announced his signing for Betis he became the most reviled player in the League. On the one hand, for the Sevillistas, who saw how he left in January after being shaken by Monchi and parked in a Sevilla team in which he played as a false 9 with his back to goal (!). On the other hand, with the suspicion of a Beticismo that he did not quite believe in someone who arrived from Nervión without showing signs of having recovered the aroma with which he seduced the Bernabéu and the national team.
Isco knocks out Osasuna in injury time and brings Betis closer to Europe
Velvet and Mahogany Football
A call from Manuel Pellegrini was enough for him to cross to the other bank of the Guadalquivir and dye his football with green hope. He returned to the orders of the one who understood him best in that Málaga team that reached the Champions League semi-finals. And he landed in a club with a particular philosophy, disbelieving in the result-oriented urgencies (“manque lose”) that savors the velvet and mahogany football that Rogelio, Cardeñosa, Calderón and Alfonso once championed..
Isco is to football what Curro Romero was to bullfighting. A hedonist who is torn between the Puerta Grande and the infirmary. The one from Arroyo de la Miel has landed on his feet at Betis, where ‘currismo’ is revered, an idiosyncrasy that connects perfectly with his indoor football. Besides, Canales’ departure to Mexico, added to Fekir’s injuries, gave him an unbeatable setting to assume honors and take his crutch out for a walk. In the preseason it began to be seen that this Isco had little to do with the one at the end in Madrid, and much less with the one who spent four months adrift in the Titanic del Pizjuán.
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This season there are 23 games (two away from executing the automatic renewal clause). 17 in the League and six in the Europa League, with more than 2,000 minutes in which he scored three goals (two in the league and one in Europe), and distributed four assists. But The most outstanding thing about Isco is that he has smiled again playing football. This has allowed us to see his best version (7 times MVP of the game), He has caused his teammates to always look for him and the Villamarín stands to fill up Sunday after Sunday to get up and take out the tissues with his ‘worky’ football. Isco, ‘The Revenant’, will play for Betis until 2027, something that even we unbelievers celebrate.
2023-12-28 19:17:05
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