When Bilardo had a dressing room lined with pictures of Menotti

Carlos Salvador Bilardo ‘All the forces of hell were summoned to shame the terrorist who committed such a moral outrage’ when, in response to the fact that, “stretched out by a nimble hand, a film of fat salt” appeared scattered on the bank of Saragossa within Sanchez Pizjuanthe Sevilla dressing room in the Romareda appeared with paper with ‘pictures and more pictures of Cesar Luis Menotti‘.

It counts Miguel Pardezapart of Fifth of the Vulture and player of Real Zaragoza between 1987 and 1997 before moving for two years to Mexican Puebla, in ‘A pie cambiado. Notebook of a disenchanted footballer’ (El Paseo), a vuelapluma compendium of his experiences in football, about his concept, references, idols and experiences.

coming in brown in the intense rivalry between two opposing ways of thinking of football, those in the body of the Argentines billiards and Menottiand engages in the second by referring to the then coach of Seville as ‘that technician with a cuneiform head and the eyes of a batrachian whose ethical code rejected all forms of sympathy’ and quoted the anecdote of salt, ‘which was clearly directed to an author’.

“More than curses and angry gestures, the deception (…) gave us a perplexed smile, opened the world of memories and loosely called us to take cold revenge in the second round match,” storytelling now. writer, born in 1965 in La Palma del Condado (Huelva)degree in Spanish Philology and expert in the work of Cesar Gonzalez Ruano.

And just like that, when the maneuver was hatched, some jokers lined up in the visitor’s dressing room. the Romareda with pictures and more pictures of Menottithe greatest ideological and personal attraction he has, and possibly has, billiards in his life’, after this brown He pointed out that they told him, because he did not see it, that the technician was “angry” and before summoning the forces of hell, “he threatened innocent employees who happened to be unsuspecting at the scene.”

Both world champions Menotti in 1978 and billiards in 1986, both coaches represented two concepts of football, one from the offensive game as a sign of identity and the other, the ‘nose’, obsessive and meticulous in satiety to win at all costs no matter what.

“If more people are results than me in the world? Nothing. I say the only thing that matters is the result,” he said at one point. billiardswhich on the contrary brought out the best of the best, Diego Armando Maradonain the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

This event reflects Miguel Pardeza when you write that billiards,”Seville has no special color, but it is true that only the presence of Maradona” -who played for the Sevilla team in 1992- made a clear nervous” and that “everything, more or less”, felt “as a child can feel when he suddenly sees one of his favorite dolls that came true”.

Miguel Pardezaas well as anthologies on the journalistic work of Gonzalez Ruanor edited in 2002 and 2003, he published ‘obituaries’ in 2005 and the novels ‘tournament’ (2016), Panenka Award for Best Book of the Year, and ‘Angelopolis’ (2020), where he ended his football career in 1999.