Oh captain, my captain!

For a long time, wearing the captain’s armband on a football field had no more scope than representing the team in front of the referee, as an authorized spokesperson, and being able to communicate with the referee, until he allowed it. and a little more. However, it can be said that the role of the captain is full of more content, with a more important projection on the environment that surrounds it.

And an illustrative example was offered by the captains of the Athletic Club, Oscar De Marcos and Inaki Williams in Rome on the first European matchday, just a few weeks ago, when they went to the back where the red and white fans were focused, to blame them for their behavior – that was a few, but enough to cause a tragedy – , and remind them that they, the Fans, like footballers, represent an entity, values ​​and a whole social mass that makes up the social support of a club.

Not long ago, we attended some interventions by the captain of Real Sociedad in Anoeta, Mikel Oyarzabal; the first of them, on the day of the Europa League match against Anderlecht, at the end of the match in the area affected by the shameful behavior of some undesirables from the visiting team, to show their support. And a few days later, on the occasion of the visit of Atlético de Madrid, Aitor Zabaleta came to the cheering stands to criticize the behavior of some of our team, who distinguished themselves by grading, with absolute those unfortunate songs. And this last intervention has a greater depth charge, because it is directed at your own followers, and that is something we are not used to. It’s not as easy to deal with your own people as it is to deal with people you don’t know and will never see again in your life. But this is what is expected of a captain, that when it is necessary to show his face, he will appear and represent the club as it deserves. AND Michael is more than fulfilled.

Because not all contacts are lacking

It happened last Sunday in the basketball match between Tenerife and Barcelona,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Barcelona, Brizuela pat the referee on the butt Yasmina Alcarazwhen he passes by her, which, seeing the images and framed in their context, seems completely spontaneous. Well, some did not have time to spread the images with the clear intention of generating controversy, and opening the debate that,
there, it doesn’t exist. Thank goodness that in the same game – vagaries of life -, in the middle of the first quarter, it was the Yasmina the one that does the same, this time in the butt of
Barça escort Kevin Punter as the recipient of the touch. What shall we do? Do we criticize the behavior of the referee and the player? Or do we learn to observe what is happening in front of us with a little common sense, common sense and naturalness? We seem determined to suppress the natural understanding of things, to put a corset on spontaneity. Fortunately, the protagonists of the “incidents” themselves get ahead of any controversy and put them in their proper context.

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It’s hard to go back to class

Breaks in domestic competition to attend national team competitions have become constant. These breaks have different effects on each team depending on the different variants. The latter, in September, came at Real after a draw at Getafe, and two successive defeats followed. Now he’s back after another draw, and Girona and Maccabi await.

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Possession… to attack

A few days ago I read the interesting MD interview in Finnish Sanni Francisand I was left with a reflection I made about the differences between Stream and Sanchez Vera: while the former promotes property as a value in itself, the latter considers it only if it is to attack the rival. It seems like a small thing, but it’s not, and it perfectly encapsulates two different game concepts.