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Gabriel Barrena was born on July 6, 57 years ago, but he says that this year he will stay at 56, because he cannot conceive of a birthday without San Fermín. "If there is no chupinazo, I do not intend to fulfill them," warns this pamplonica from the Chantrea neighborhood, redder than the lion with the Osasuna coat of arms, the driver for seven seasons of the bus in which the Navarrese group travels. A time in which he has lived from his privileged position two promotions to First, a descent to Second and the agony of Sabadell, who almost pushed Osasuna to Second B and who knows if his disappearance. "The game progressed and I said to myself: 'Am I going to have enough strength to be able to return to Pamplona?' I didn't see anything clear ... », he remembers about that day.

Gabri, who is what everyone calls him, thought that he had already experienced everything on that bus, but now he has to face an unprecedented situation that, to a certain extent, resizes his work. You still have primary responsibility for bringing Osasuna players and coaches to your destination, but now you must also ensure that the coach is a health-safe space, as dictated by strict LaLiga protocols for restarting the competition.

As a preventive measure, the bus has been parked in the garages of Autocares Artieda, in Huarte, since the state of alarm was decreed. The bus is usually used for school and factory services when Osasuna does not need it, but in these circumstances they chose to completely remove it from circulation. “We cleaned it thoroughly when all this started and it has been completely stopped for these months. We've only started it once in a while to take care of the batteries, ”he explains. Until the competition ends, obviously, it will not be used for anything other than transferring footballers.

"Everything that can be touched"

This Sunday he will recover the activity with a comfortable and short trip to San Sebastián, where Osasuna will visit Real Sociedad in the game that closes the day. Gabri will take that trip with his bus and one of his colleagues with a different one, since LaLiga demands it. In the trip to Mestalla next week, he will stay ashore. Normally, although the team travels by plane or train, buses travel empty to destinations to serve them there. From now on, however, the teams will have to hire buses in the destination cities.

It will be just one of the many changes in the drivers' routines, which will have to be tested before each game and they will spend the night with the teams if they are concentrated in a hotel, even in their own city. It will be your turn, of course, to drive with a mask and to place hydroalcoholic gel dispensers all over the vehicle.

And also follow a strict cleaning ritual in each service: «The bus will be disinfected before each day with an ozone nebulizer. And every time players and coaches come out, I have to clean the seats, tables, railings with a cloth and disinfectant gel ... Everything that can be touched. The truth is that it is more work for us. That rubbing has a little mouse! ».

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