Well, yes, he’s finally gone. After countless seasons in his club, second player with the most appearances in a team that turns loyalty to its colors, to its DNA, into value, after feeling the wave of emotions generated by returning home holding a trophy that draws thousands of people, followers or not, all faithful dressed in the same shirt, after realizing that, perhaps, the best times had already passed and we had to make way for those who can contribute new things, new energies, new visions, new dreams. And surely all of this has occurred after having reflected a lot, after sleepless nights, after more than two days in which he had remained transfixed looking in the mirror as if the correct answer were in that image: “Do I go or do I stay?” ?”
And the final answer was: “We have to go.” Because times pass, illusions wear down, the changing nature of football takes you to a place where you feel that you contribute, but that you are also annoying. Maybe just a little, a nothing, but annoying, because you feel that the best thing for everyone is to give themselves air, breathe, enjoy, renew plans and horizons. Come on, what they had taught us about being consistent with situations and that it was better to be a solution than a problem, especially when you are in your club, where you have always dreamed of being, where you have been from hope to captain, from sparkling talent to experienced player who sets the times of the game.
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Well, let’s see, at this point I must clarify that I am referring to Iker Muniain, player and captain of Athletic Club, and I just realized that, perhaps, perhaps, you were thinking that I was talking about Xavi Hernández and his relationship with FC Barcelona, where he is a legend and a watchword and must have been involved in the same doubts or similar to those of Muniain, but in the end he has solved, they have allowed him to solve, the equation in the opposite way. And when everything seemed to say that he was leaving, well, he told us all that he was leaving, he has decided together with his president that the best thing, for everyone?, is to stay.
It would seem that the magic mirror of Can Barça works with more complex, more sophisticated, more indecipherable algorithms than those of Lezama and in similar situations it gives opposite solutions.
Don’t ask me how this situation came about because I didn’t know how to decipher what was behind that public announcement by Xavi that he would not continue and because my table of culés integrals does not provide even approximate answers. Because what is clear is that this time two plus two have been five. And as much as Barça’s unique DNA provides for all types of debates, this screen seemed already outdated, already consumed, already finished or rather, the protagonists had decided that, for the common good, it had to be closed on June 30, …2024.
The thing is, what do you want me to tell you, I tend to believe professionals who, subjected to tension, stress, difficulties and sleepless nights, make decisions that may even go against their interests because they tend to prioritize what we usually call the common good. Yes, I know that they make a lot of money and their worries are child’s play compared to those of ordinary mortals, but I have also seen them suffer and live in the toxic black cloud, theirs and the one in which others surround them. , for which the only solution they see is to say goodbye, leave with maximum dignity and let other hands pilot the project.
It is clear that I have to adjust new parameters to my equations, I have to update my solution program, I have to adapt to this new reality in which nothing is what it seems and where coherent is a concept in danger of extinction.
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2024-04-26 03:15:00
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