ORFEO SUÁREZ
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Updated on Saturday, 25September2021-19: 20
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"To the closet, to the closet !!"
The closet was
Ronald Koeman
, whom the Calderón stands mocked while shouting at
Futre
and
Baltazar
to face the new Barcelona signing, out in the open in the area. On one side,
Julio Alberto
; to the other,
Aloisio
, in a defense-anathema: three men. It was the test-tube team of the nascent 'cruyffismo' that, three years after many tensions and losing that match 1-0, in November 1989, would open the channel to Atlético de
Luis Aragonés
in the same scenario (1-4). That misplaced Koeman had become one of the cardinal points of a football that sanctified position and possession. He was, in addition, the man of the Wembley goal, months ago, author of a shot that was for the 'cruyffismo' like the zigzag of the hyssop dipped in holy water. In a club with a complex in the 'terra ignoota' of Madrid, the European Cup, something more than a style of play had been born. Marked by the personality of his father, a
great, vital and arrogant
Johan Cruyff
, 'cruyffismo' was a way of playing, but also a way of experiencing Barcelona without the complexes of the past. Play and self-esteem were communicating vessels.
The work, incomplete, was completed by his footballing son in the 'Three Graces of Pep', as
Guardiola
added pressure to position and possession.
Messi
would not have reached his level in another football and emotional context. As nostalgic and an admirer of 'cruyffismo' as he is an upstart,
Quique Setién
felt anointed to rescue his essence, after more realistic periods with
Luis Enrique
and
Valverde
, but instead of returning to the soccer Prado he ended up, together with
Eder Sarabia
, on the cover of Papus.
Koeman was then called desperately, with bankruptcy hidden and the pandemic lurking, and the first thing the Dutchman did was place a photograph of Cruyff on the wall of his office at Camp Nou where the crucifix once hung.
A year later, Koeman is a castaway who represents the living metaphor of 'cruyffismo', experiencing in his own flesh the two states of his faith: glory and martyrdom.
LAPORTA, RIQUI PUIG AND LA ENDOGAMiA
Today, his devotees cry as the 'Creator' would for the lost Barça paradise. Few represent the current like
Joan Laporta, '
Jan', grown up in opposition to
Núñez
that Cruyff needed so much in his internal pulse with the president. Cainismo, a sign of identity as much a Barça fan as a 'cruyffista', once again rages around the figure of Koeman. Laporta allows himself to say privately that Barça must play 4-3-3 and that
Riqui Puig
must start. Bad business. Riqui is the last of the Mohicans of a tribe of midfielders cloned from technical excellence, but also dangerously inbred, something that already worried
Zubizarreta
when he was sports director.They were all running and passing in the same direction.
Professionals and protagonists of the past who know well what they are talking about recognize that "Koeman does not have the right footballers for a certain game, apart from injuries."
Among them is
Carles Rexach
, the scribe who passed the occurrences of the genius through the sieve of his Phoenician common sense.
One of the coaches who faced the 'Dream Team' so many times,
Javier Irureta
, explains it in a more crude way: "Barça made football advance with his style, but he also led many teams to suicide, trying to imitate him without them. suitable players ".
The question is whether he is now exposing himself to the worst of 'harakiris': drowning in his own blood.
JORDI, XAVI AND THE PENDING ACCOUNTS
"Cruyff there is only one." Johan raised his index finger when he said it, proud, in response to the question of why his son had Jordi on his shirt instead of his last name.
Jordi Cruyff
also knows it, and perhaps that is why he does not want to be an alternative to Koeman, despite his return to Barcelona, in the technical structure. The Cruyff and Koemans were also joined by a close family relationship in their previous coexistence in the city in which the current Barça coach and his wife,
Bartina
, now grandparents, had decided to take up residence before receiving the call from
Josep. Maria Bartomeu
.
Jordi has a good relationship and has even shared an image agency with
Roberto Martínez
, one of the candidates to succeed the worn out Koeman, although 'cruyffismo' cries out for
Xavi Hernández
, called to restore the ideal. The midfielder owes a large part of what he is to Luis Aragonés and to Spain, his national team. Although the Catalan political crisis has contaminated that relationship, Xavi knows it well and, especially, his father, who suffered from the comparisons with Guardiola to which his son was subjected in Barcelona. When Xavi,
Pujol
and
Iniesta
They won the European Championship in Vienna in 2008, they did not receive a congratulatory text from Laporta. The club, instead, dedicated a cover of its magazine to Messi for his Olympic gold in Beijing, the same year. The fact that Xavi got involved with
Víctor Font
, Laporta's electoral rival, also provokes misgivings in the president and those around him.
The commitment to young people that began with
Pedri
or
Mingueza
is part of the legacy of Cruyff followed by Koeman.
In football, he is not like Guardiola, whom Jorge Valdano positively defined as the "fanatic of an idea" that he carried to the last consequences even in Bavaria, once the land of 'Panzers'.
The trip to the Premier, however, has made him admit to Darwin's theory.
Where Koeman has betrayed the Cruyff legacy is in surrender: "This is what there is."
Truths are forbidden in the world of illusions, and 'cruyffismo' is, today, an illusion.
The amateur is like the lover: he prefers lies.
Sometimes, only sometimes, they are fulfilled.
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