Barcelona has had a bad time.
Who knows if he will be able to avoid being torn apart by mutual funds.
Who knows if he will be able to live in peace after the economic and spiritual ruin perpetrated by managers who still breastfeed for their incompetence.
Who knows if a figure will emerge that will alleviate the pain for
Messi
.
With what splendor Memphis woke up to the beat of
Braithwaite's
goals
, while at the Camp Nou they whistled to whoever wanted a choral applause in tribute to Rosario in the 10th minute.
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But football, fortunately, is not deciphered by business schools, but by players. And nothing weighs more in a field than a handful of them letting themselves be carried away by enthusiasm and the poetic assurance that another present is possible. If Barça beat Real Sociedad in their league debut at the Camp Nou, it is because they believed they could do it. Memphis pushed like no one else and served as a total forward. A nuisance and an artist.
Braithwaite
, all self-love, scored two goals with the ease of classic battering rams. And
Piqué
, received like a modern god in the stadium for something as earthly as lowering his salary, could get fed up kissing the shield after heading to the net in the goal with which Barça opened the season.
Joe Louis
, that legendary boxing heavyweight champion with zero speaking skills, had a moment of dialectical clarity when he blurted out to an opponent: "He may know how to run, but he can't hide."
The same thing happens on a soccer field.
There is no way to go unnoticed.
And those Barça players who will be judged again and again from a sinister comparison cannot do it.
What happened in
Messi's
time
will be balanced with everything that happens from now on.
The first chapter
True. It was only the first official game of the season. But it allowed us to see what
Ronald Koeman is up to
, a coach who
Joan Laporta
reluctantly kept because he had no money to fire him and after demanding an offensive and brave game. Koeman should have taken note. He assumed the 4-3-3. He did not hesitate to make
Eric García
debut
as a right central, thus prioritizing a clean exit of the ball to a born corrector like
Araujo
. With
Pedri
, inexhaustible, together with Busquets and De Jong, he fixed his holy trinity in the wide zone.
And in attack only Griezmann, despite a head to the post, was somewhat misplaced.
Memphis capitalized on it all.
He even experimented with Dutch with an association with Jordi Alba.
The lane was the one who could feel the most orphan before Messi's departure.
One of those 20,384 fans who returned to the Camp Nou after 17 months did so locked up in his 'La Pulga' shirt.
A routine garment has become an uncomfortable object of worship.
Not because of the value of the tribute, but because of the sadness of the memory.
And football, whose money-making machine would not make sense if there were no way to monetize emotions, already puts the faces of this present in front of the window.
Perhaps there will be those who remember the Memphis staging over the years. He threw a hat at
Le Normand
with the spur for a hook. That kind of street gestures that reconcile the fan with the artistic value of this.
Everything acquired more merit if possible being the Royal Sheriff's Society the rival, a team that was devastated during the first half hour without the absence of
Alexander Isak being
able to serve as an alibi
. The San Sebastian, despite counting in their ranks with footballers born to combine in rival field (
Merino
,
Zubimendi
,
Silva
...), were trapped in front of their area. There was no way to connect with Januzaj and Oyarzabal, a false center forward, nor could the defense remain stable before the conjuring games of the Barça attackers. That Barcelona was soon ahead on the scoreboard conditioned the mood of some visitors who only woke up at the end. Even if they did it big.
Before, Piqué had crowned a great Memphis center at 1-0.
And Braithwaite, in the addition of the first act, took advantage of an assist from De Jong, without the VAR revision having an effect due to an alleged prior foul by Eric García.
Braithwaite's third goal, born between Memphis and Alba at the beginning of the second half, was by no means the sentence.
Nothing is taken for granted here.
Koeman wound up more rookies,
Emerson
and young
Nico Gonzalez
, son of former sportsman
Fran
.
And the Real, who found the 1-3 thanks to a crack in the right side taken advantage of by
Lobete
, dreamed of the feat after a tremendous direct free goal from Oyarzabal five minutes from time.
Koeman had a fit of fear.
But football, so bizarre, again found answers in Braithwaite, Sergi Roberto's assistant in the goal that closed the night.
Fitzgerald
settled
The Great Gatsby
with the conviction that boats are doomed to row against the current, to be swept away by the past.
There will be time to find out if this is so.
Remembering was always losing.
Live, maybe win.
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