Leo, be kind

I like less and less about the bombs, the destruction of the dams and the suffering of the people. By the way, the suffering that Leo’s decision about his future could cause in some culé is over. At this point, I now remember when a UHF cassette arrived in my office with pictures of a thin boy with long hair, catching a ball with his feet and facing the opposite goal in a small field. This image made me decide to ask Barça, whose Gaspart has recently arrived as president, to do something they usually do not accept. Bring a foreign player to the test. We financed the arrival of the whole family, parents and siblings, and put them up at the Hotel Catalonia in Plaza España, whose manager is the son of the great Domingo Balmanya, former player and coach of Barça. I will not continue explaining this story to you because at that time no one could have predicted the explosion of quality, of winning spirit and contribution to the team that that boy who could barely get off the ground would make. Now the possibility of returning to Barça has ended and I am not sure that it has been bad for the club or for the player. They are two paths that suddenly parted ways two years ago and will never come together again. We must wish Leo and his family the best in this decision to move to the United States. They would have told the president a few days ago, but it is clear that such complex negotiations to include sponsors, television channels and the MLS in their salary in America are not done in 24 hours. This proposal has been on the table for a long time and it is only a matter of deciding whether the United States, Arabia or Barcelona. Once installed in Florida, that things will be fine, really, that no one will ruin their clothes because it’s football and life. Here, in our Barça, great figures passed, important at the time, and I will not analyze whether more or less, and they left, but Barça continued. Is the basis. May Barça continue to manage well, without doing too much and return to normality.

Normality is what at first seems like it will happen in Istanbul. The favorite is City but football is so unpredictable that at times, an Inter that a few months ago seemed low level, put up a serious fight, at times it seemed more a team than the English and only its success. good player Rodri, By the way, he plays in the position of Busquets, just in case, even if I don’t think they will sell him to us, he chose an intense game played in the capital of a big country. , which grows everywhere and has a variety in all senses that is not as common as Turkey. This is the success of Pep Guardiola, of our Pep. I can say that all of us culés went with City and therefore, in some ways, we feel like we are champions even from afar.

Catalan tennis, with Carlos Alcaraz

On Friday the Annual Catalan Tennis Day was held. Led by Jordi Tamayo, son of the great Tamayo of Viajes Marina. What culé does not remember his friend Antonio and his displacements? The dinner was held at the facilities of the Sánchez Casal Academy. The celebration of this game which is deeply rooted in Catalonia and another success of this board of directors saved the federation from chaos. Moments earlier, Djokovic defeated an injured Alcaraz. A pity but other great occasions are to come for the Murcian.

I get the impression that this tennis phenomenon plays a lot under pressure and after big shots he looks for the look of his coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, as if he needs to direct him or approve his performance. It can create stress that harms you when you are performing intense physical and mental exertion. I hope he can solve it, because he will be a great champion