This is the permanent miracle of Sevilla that challenges the fearsome Bayern for the Super Cup

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«Football owes me nothing;

on the contrary, I owe a lot to football », says

before the final of the European Super Cup that, this Thursday, Sevilla will dispute against Bayern Munich, in Budapest (9:00 p.m., Movistar).

His answer sums up this devilish sport.

Football does not understand lost opportunities, or chances, or armistices.

He is despotic, unstoppable, fierce with the loser, condescending with the one who wins.

Forgetful.

Able to drag you through the mud or rise to the sky with a single click, with a ball that, instead of being thrown by the crossbar, falls into the warm lap of the net, with a footballer who arrives as a star and leaves between whistles , an unfair penalty, an impossible shot.

For this reason, football is about burning and then being born again from the ashes.

Sevilla is a team condemned to reinvent itself, demanding and changeable, which has not stopped being competitive, nor aspiring for titles;

that he remained standing in Second, that he lasted in the warmth, in the cobwebs in the safe, in the robbery, in the unfulfilled promises.

That he survived himself many times and today he is fighting for a title again, as if nothing had happened, like someone who leaves the house scared and graceful waiting for a memorable night.

Monchi

has known how to capitalize on that volubility.

Like a plant that grows inexcusably upwards, but making ringlets.

Sevilla's sports management combs accessible markets in search of promising youngsters.

It offers them minutes, confidence and projection.

A kind of family.

It accompanies them in their growth, pampers their talent and, when they are up, they sell them.

No drama, no widows.

As if it were part of a natural process, like harvesting what was well sown.

This permanent change of stamps has not stopped the club's football performance.

the list comes almost from memory.

The titles confirm the balance between sales and performance on grass in this 21st century.

Six Europa Leagues, two Copas del Rey, a Spanish Super Cup and a European Super Cup, in 2006, no less than against Barcelona.

An example of this tightrope walk is this season's continental title.

In one of their stunts, the Nervionense team had to continue without Monchi, who tried his luck in Roma.

In his absence, first

and then

, tried to set up a neat team.

Without achieving harmony, Sevilla came to play a Cup final and step on the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Machín and Montella did not take root, the workforce was falling apart, and the return of the architect from San Fernando last year once again revolutionized the entrails of Sánchez-Pizjuán.

Although Monchi denied that it was a clean one, the campus was completely rebuilt.

New coach, Lopetegui, greeted with sour skepticism.

And some sales that sting, for their unquestionable performance on the field:

and

, and to a lesser extent,

and

.

Despite doubts and a handful of uncertain signings, Sevilla achieved a title that further enlarges its showcase.

Example that the shield is the ship and the footballers, simply mere crew.

To the sports reinventions we must add the institutional restlessness.

wants to regain power in the club and compete, with American capital, the authority of the current president,

.

The former president promises "to professionalize the financial management of the club, placing it at least at the level of its sporting successes."

Castro, who considers the institutional pact reached at the agitated 2019 shareholders meeting as broken, is preparing for the offensive of one of his predecessors.

"Years go by, players go by ...", as the song says.

The stands remember that everything withers, but the shield remains.

Sevilla is a phoenix that did not know how to nest in nostalgia.

Tonight they face the best team in Europe.

Bayern

are favorites, but football does not understand the language of apriorism.

It is a dictatorship of now, a melody of the unpredictable that Sevilla sings almost from memory.

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