When
José Ángel Iribar
talks about a goalkeeper, he seldom stops at his qualities on the pitch.
For him, the value of an archer is within the walls, under the bones.
"It is seen that he has a vocation, he likes to learn, he never blames the cobblestones," he said in his day as
Kepa.
"He had a terrible fondness for soccer, a lot of vocation," he remembered de
Zubizarreta
.
The teacher knows that the goalkeeper is a dish that is cooked slowly, without haste, on the eve of a party.
Yassine Bounou's
favorite dish
, Bono
(Montreal, Canada, 1991), is 'rfissa', a Berber recipe, originally from the Casablanca region, which is prepared at important events and requires time and patience to prepare.
Everything in the Moroccan footballer exudes pause.
His arms are two huge brackets;
inside, an explanation of the good time of Sevilla.
Against Huesca he was decisive again.
Zero goals against in their last four league games.
Zero goals against in the six games his team has played in the Copa del Rey.
The club dreams on the pillow of its bow.
Asked about his best quality as a goalkeeper, Bono replied: "I'm calm."
Asked about his best saves, Bono replied: "There are simple saves that are more important than those spectacular stops when you are already losing."
All like that.
Classic gloves with classic colors.
The U of Uhlsport, the short flights, the rigid bilge;
prints from another era.
Martial and unaesthetic
Bono is a calm goalkeeper, quick to cut the goal, pragmatic if the ball reaches him unruly.
With firm hands and a lot of agility with the legs when blocking the shots.
Very concentrated, serious, martial and not very aesthetic.
He is, above all, an imperturbable goalkeeper, with lirondes gestures, far from the decked out glide.
Reassuring and solid.
Vintage: with modern architecture but ancient inspiration.
Lopetegui
, who also preserves the goalkeeper's scars, said after the Moroccan's last league recital: “Since he arrived he has been intelligent, constant and hard-working.
He has been at a good level for a long time and that is the result of his work and his persistence.
It is the only way to progress in this and it is just what he has done. "The vocation of which Iribar spoke. An old school: taking the blows and not giving up." The boxer to the basket, the gloves at dawn ", which wrote
Fernando Merlo
.
There was a moment of inflection for Bono at Sevilla, a moment of film, the tennis ball dancing on the net and finally falling in his favor.
In the last Europa League, which they ended up lifting, the Sevilla players held 1-1 in the first leg in Romania.
With Cluj overturned on Bono, seeking suicide for a goal to turn the round of 32,
Lacina Traoré
took a warm ball in midfield, yielded to
Paun
and he, with a powerful long shot, managed to remove the embarrassment of the local goalkeeper.
The ball was strong and flat, but centered and accessible.
Without venom, it slipped under Bono's torso.
An unforgivable mistake.
The tragedy was tentative.
Although the referee gave the goal, the VAR noticed a previous hand from the Ivorian striker to control the ball.
"The play is long, I see the opponent's hand and I kind of disconnect from the action," he excused himself.
"Now to learn from those mistakes and to continue fighting with everything," he concluded.
First the shock, then the glory.
Pass through Atlético
Bono was trained at the Wydad Casablanca.
At the age of 21, he arrived in Spain at the hands of Atlético de Madrid, but he had no options in the first team.
There he shared routines and training with
Courtois
, whose mentality and his game he overlooks.
From the rojiblanco subsidiary he jumped to Second, loaned to Zaragoza and from there, transferred to Girona, with whom he achieved promotion as the undisputed starter.
He stood out in the First Division and, when the Catalan team descended, the door of Sevilla was opened, which was looking for an emergency replacement for
Sergio Rico
.
«At 10 I wanted to be a goalkeeper.
Van der Sar
and
Buffon
were my first idols, ”Bono confessed.
Also that, as a child, he admired the blocks of the French PSG goalkeeper
Bernard Lama
.
"There is no easy game", he usually responds, when asked about his next game.
He is right, of course, if he looks at the calendar for the next Sevilla clash.
Borussia Dortmund awaits in the Champions League.
Against the Germans, Bono can continue to make history.
The goalkeeper accumulates 709 minutes without collecting the ball from his net.
If he survives Haaland and Sancho, he will break the unbeaten record that
Andrés Palop
still holds
.
Gold letters, giant mittens.
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