This would be a very important day of the Santander League . Real Madrid would visit Anoeta and Barcelona the Sánchez-Pizjuán . Mallorca and Leganés would play a vital encounter for the descent and Atlético and Valencia would receive Valladolid and Osasuna to try to secure their European position.

I would have to keep an eye on Celta - Alavés, vital for the permanence of the vigueses, but the coronavirus has left us without a league, without soccer, without sport and without other things much more important than ball.

Instead, I have been forced to enter YouTube and remember those two goals of a young Iago Aspas to knock down the 'Glorioso' and save 'his' Celta from relegation to Segunda B and disappearance. I have come across some ' highlights ' of Ronaldo Nazario and another eternal comparison of goals and assists by Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo . Right now, Saturday afternoon, I would watch any event that looked a bit like a soccer game .

In fact...

In another browser window I have an application open with the matches that are live, and I decide to continue with amazement the most important of the day, of the week and surely of the month: the Tajikistan Super Cup , the only title that someone can pick up on who knows how much.

After verifying that both the country and the supposed match exist, I start to get nervous: Rixsiboev scored in the 2nd minute for Khujand , so the game caught me with Istiklol Dushanbe overturned on the goal of someone I don't know who it is. The stands of the Pamir Stadium in Dushanbe are empty by order of the institutions, and the local team accuses it. Normal, I think. In the application, even the shots on goal or possession do not come out, so the tension is even higher. What the hell is going on.

Meanwhile, I look for information on the internet. Istiklol have won the last six league titles in Tajikistan. And he plays at home, so let's go, I'm going, with the small team for that constant vital defeat that as a teenager made me be the Sacramento Kings in the NBA.

Error. Another one.

Suddenly Dzhalilov scores in the 76th. Tie. Watch out. Then new notice from the app: someone has dialed. The application takes a few seconds to update. The longest seconds of confinement.

It turns out that Rahimov , enemy from now on, marked for Istiklol, who is going to take the cup, the ninth in his history. Once again, football has been unfair to the Khujand fans in a comeback that has nothing to envy to the Istanbul Champions League that Liverpool took.

Tomorrow Sunday the league officially starts , with the fields empty of spectators despite the fact that there are no cases of coronavirus in the country, but with the ball in play, as in Belarus, Nicaragua and Burundi , the only countries that maintain their competitions in foot.

Long live the Khujand.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more