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He is 18 years old but has lived three lives. The life that so often is a shitty life, in Africa; the life that offered him a decent life, in Andalusia, and the life that is the life of a few, chosen and rich, in Barcelona. A fleeting journey between stations turned into the metaphor of states that go from misery to opulence. Once on the roller coaster of dreams, money and vanities, it is difficult to keep your balance. Losing it is human. It may have happened to some of the people around

Ansu Fati

, because the need creates psychological dependencies that never heal. It is the feeling of never feeling satiated. Ansu Fati does not suffer it. Contrary to what happens to the footballer's father, his son's memories of Africa are practically non-existent. Knowing where you come from without the original wounds and knowing what you want without submitting to the pressures of what comes are the 'yin' and 'yang' among which Ansu seeks the fulcrum to create his work at Barça under the 10 of

Leo Messi

. A very complicated company, as you have already seen with your disappointing classic. How to paint on the Sistine Chapel.

The footballer's journey actually begins with the journey of

Bori Fati

, who leaves Guinea Bissau on his way to the old metropolis, in Portugal, and ends in a ditch in southern Spain, where a company that carried out work on the AVE between Córdoba and Malaga leaves behind a handful of African pawns. Hope appears in the communist oasis of

Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo

, mayor of Marinaleda. He is his assistant, and the fact is that the chauffeur implies a servility that does not fit with the conscience of the mayor whose "utopia of peace and full employment" reaches the pages of the

New York Times

.

Sánchez Gordillo helps Bori Fati settle in Herrera, a nearby town, prevents his expulsion from the country and, later, facilitates the arrival of his family from Guinea Bissau, the eleventh poorest country in the world in 2021, according to its GDP.

Little Ansu is six years old.

"BETTER WITH LEO'S BROTHER"

The ball quickly uncovers the diamond. The men from the clubs arrive,

Pablo Blanco

(Seville),

Paco de Gracia

(Real Madrid),

Albert Puig

(Barcelona) ... Papa Fati has to make decisions. One year at Sevilla, only one, and the jump to Barça, together with his brother

Braima

, whose path will not take the direction of the elite. Ansu is a child but soon has an agent,

Júnior Minguella

, son of the influential

Josep Maria Minguella

. Soon after, he changed for

Rodrigo Messi

, because in the corridors of La Masia it is heard that "it will be better for you if your brother represents you." The echo reaches all parents. The new contract confirms this.

Leo Messi sponsors the promotion to the first team, corresponded by Ansu with the earliest goals in history in the League, the Champions League or the national team, all before coming of age. The Argentine's burofax, on the other hand, is the sign that a reign is ending. In parallel to Messi's desire to escape, Bori Fati breaks up with his brother and puts his son's explosion in the hands of one of the biggest talent traffickers,

Jorge Mendes

. Money is never enough. The Messi feel betrayed. In one of the conversations with

Josep Maria Bartomeu

to redirect the will to leave the Barça star,

Jorge

, father and agent of the Argentine, exclaims: "Transfer Ansu."

In reality, it is the same thing that Mendes says to himself, then with two missions: to take advantage of the crisis at the Camp Nou to make a great operation with Ansu and to remove

Joao Félix

from Atlético to avoid a depreciation, due to the scarce exposure that had with

Diego Simeone

.

Ansu is on the Ferris wheel.

FOUR TO EIGHT MILLION A YEAR

To the first great offer that arrives, of 150 million, coming from Old Trafford, the Barça says no. Neither does the footballer want to leave, but there is more. "We already enforced the clause by which he had to stay for two more years," says a source from the former Bartomeu board of directors. Whether or not that way, there is the possibility of retaining him by the club unilaterally. Mendes is obliged to negotiate.

Joan Laporta

, too. Tomorrow it can be much more expensive. The renewal, for five years, is the meeting point. The figures are not filtered, and less in times of crisis, but the environment places them at the initial four million net per year, which could increasingly reach eight at the end of their contract, depending on the objectives.

Ansu's photo remains next to that of

Ché Guevara

in an office without kings or crucifixes. It is that of the mayor of Marinaleda, who would like the player not to forget what the "chain of favors" means, by which one gives back to society how much he has received. In fact, for Gordillo, as the old Siberian communists say, "a man should not possess more than a heart can love." The future will give you the answer.

The sequence of events and the changes of agent reveal both the rapid progression of the soccer player, despite two serious injuries, a torn tibia and fibula as a juvenile and the recent knee operation, as well as the wishes of the parent to make it profitable quickly , a legitimate but dangerous fact. "The father has always shown a lot of ambition," says one of the people who has been close to the footballer. "Ansu, on the other hand, has barely changed. After his debut, he continued to go to La Masia to see the boys or to witness the lower teams' matches," adds the same source. The father did it too, once the family moved to Barcelona from Andalusia, already dressed in the hats and colorful coats typical of the African look. When Ansu took the 10 from Messi,the father let some journalists know that he was going to buy his son's shirts, something that some club offices considered excessive prominence.

ERIC GARCÍA'S FAMILY

Ansu's father, however, had the caution and ability not to mortgage his son's future by selling his rights to agents, as happened to the father of

Ilaix Moriba

, trapped in a Bundesliga glacier.

Unlike Moriba, Ansu's family, very numerous, remains united and accompanies him everywhere.

It is as if he was protected by a clan, as well as by the company of advisers such as

Marc Lacueva

, son of a former Espanyol manager in Sarrià's hard times.

During his upbringing in La Masia and while his family was still in Herrera, he spent days at

Eric García's

house

, with whom he had played since he was a child.

That contributed to his training, to his perspective.

It is a custom of La Masia on days off for the boys who have their own out, but always without bringing together those who play in the same position.

Competitiveness is dangerous: it becomes a pathology, of children and parents.

The fathers of soccer stars are like the mothers of the old tonadilleras, although the mission of

Sebastiana

, mother of

Estrellita Castro

, and others of her time was to monitor the morale of her daughters more than the checking account.

Now they are Papa

Neymar

, Papa Messi, Papa

Haaland

or Papa Fati, sometimes also agents, almost always commission agents.

With

Mbappé

, there are mom and dad.

Prepare yourselves.

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