Julen Aguinagalde carried the whole European uploaded to the viral. In one of his YouTube videos, a Majorcan boy, Miquel Montoro , saw that in his house they were cooking meatballs and got rid of illusion: "Piles, which are bones, m'encanten!". The phrase stuck to the pivot and released her every moment. He arrived at the dining room and whatever there was on the menu, he didn't care, he said: "Piles, what a bone!" Until last Friday, after winning the semifinal against Slovenia and passing the anti-doping control, he appeared busted in the dining room of the Scandic Talk hotel in Stockholm and what was there for dinner? "Piles that are bones, m'encanten!". The excitement of the team for the meatballs was so exaggerated that Rodrigo Corrales's birthday cake remained in the background and they were promised that if they won the final, they would return to dinner yes or yes meatballs. That was the menu this Sunday night. Logically, before, in the Tele2 Arena when raising the second consecutive European Aguinagalde, with a flag of Irun to the neck, he released the viral phrase and there the party began.

There were corrillos on the track, there were dances in the locker room, there were photographs with the families and there was Jorge Maqueda , always Jorge Maqueda. Seven years ago, in the celebration of the 2013 World Cup, he stayed in underpants for a bet and it is not ruled out that the night would end the same. To begin, in the middle of the medal ceremony, before the hymn sounded, he asked one of the volunteers for the flag of Spain that was used as a decoration for the pavilion and with the mast included he began to wag it from top to bottom. He almost took his eye off someone until, after realizing it, he picked up another flag, this one of his friends from Quero, his town, and he already entertained her. "A few beers are going to fall tonight," he advanced after a break dance in the mixed zone where he celebrated his prize as best side of the right tournament but almost gave up on it: "They should have given it to Alex [Dujshebaev ]. He deserved it more than me for the goal he scored in the semifinals and the one he scored today. "

Through the corridor, heading to the locker room they all shouted, especially the veterans, Gideon Guardiola , Viran Morros , Dani Sarmiento, although they admitted that later, when the legs began to weigh, it would be the youngest who took over. One of them, the baby, Aleix Gómez thanked all his teammates for their confidence in letting him throw the four penalties of the second half and, above all, the decisive penalty and another, Álex Dujshebaev, admitted that he knew that the responsibility of the last launch would be hers. "I thought that if I failed they would take us safely to extra time, I knew the ball was mine, I had to put it in. I was thinking of making another pitch, but I saw the hole, I tried the hip and it went well. The truth is that it has not it was my best game, but I already sign if all the matches end up like this, "he said, being the last to reach a mixed zone and, at the same time, the calmest of all. At the end of the game, he confessed, he had been talking to his father Talant and had lost part of the party, but he didn't care: "Tonight we will enjoy a little, we have earned it."

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