Did you know that in Athletic who won the leagues in the 80s there was a prankster who came to put a car in the middle of the field?, that Ibaigane is part of the military structure of Frank and the palace was robbed? or what does the term ‘rampant lion’ mean? These and other curiosities are revealed in the book that has just been published by the journalists borja bilbaoUEFA press officer for Spain, and Juanma Velascocolleague who covers the daily news of the rojiblanco team for the newspaper Marca.
‘That’s NOT in my Athletic BOOK’ is a publication of Editorial Almuzara of 304 pages that narrates the history of the entity based on oddities, anecdotes and unknown experiences and away from the statistics usually featured in news media. “They are human stories about a club that has a bigger dimension than a football team. They are stories that have escaped from sport. For example, there is a chapter dedicated to Fernando Ochoa, considered a huge character in UEFA and the Federation. The best in the League, in fact there are teams that want to take him and he also wore a tracksuit to go down to the field to talk to the players and the coach,” he explained. Velasco.
“The publisher left us total freedom, they wanted us to tell more unknown stories,” he added. The history of rojiblanca through the great protagonists, the keys to the growth process of the entity and its players “and even the well-known quarrels of some coaches with Lezama or the anecdote when they did not allow Joao’s wife in Havelange, then president of FIFA, in the box of San Mamés because women could not enter”.
The book is structured in 72 chapters that can be read independently, except for the first ones that deal with the inaugural years of the entity. “You can read them separately, the thread will not be lost if you read one and skip two,” adds Velasco, who took advantage of his spare time and especially his vacations to write it. The book is already on sale on the Internet and will arrive in bookstores this weekend or early next: “Online sales seem to be doing well.”
Source: La Verdad
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