everything suits us

Warning for social services: I decided it was a good idea to take Lola to soccer for the first time to see

.

Spoiler alert: she ended up the way she had to end.

The bottom team won at the

, there were cross fights between a captain (

) and different sectors of the stands and Atleti did not shoot once on goal, to the point that my daughter, believing that it was a scoring opportunity, He grabbed my arm very hard and yelled “oops!”

every time an away player gave the ball to his goalkeeper.

As a finishing touch, the intellectual elite of the fans thought it was genius to sing

to the team that was putting a wiggle on his.

The complete Atleti experience.

As we left that nonsense, with the wild emotion of a seven-year-old girl crammed with stimuli, Lola told me: "

."

"Everything is good for you."

He often repeats it to me, speaking of the Atléticos, the extreme Madridista side of the newsroom when he sees that, in the face of any misfortune, we open a beer with a half smile.

They are surprised that we take the Atleti so seriously that the result is, as it always is in life, an anecdote as ephemeral as the famous tears in the rain.

The recurring example of him is that round of the

.

I remember the context: Madrid 3-0 in the first leg, the last big night at the Calderón, 2-0 after a quarter of an hour and

aborting the miracle along the bottom line.

In the last minutes, with everything decided, the universal deluge fell and, while the madridistas ran to take cover inside the stadium or got involved with their raincoats as if they were laminated sudoku puzzles,

with happiness much more transcendent than elimination.

Because going to soccer never has to do with the result but with the experience and the company.

With being there and living what touches.

Hug and remember.

It was the most beautiful defeat ever suffered.

"

" No, not everything, but I hope I lose many times like that day.

I remembered this last week when I saw so many Madridistas, from anonymous tweeters to famous chatterboxes, minimize and even celebrate the defeat in

for having executed

, who has been playing for them for I don't know how many months, although you, clueless, see it with another t-shirt.

I enjoyed discovering that, in the end, everything is good for them too.

And so it must be.

I hope they remember it from now on, they will enjoy football more.

I do not intend to educate Lola that defeat is a good thing, but that it is inevitable.

And you laugh, you get up and continue.

Sometimes you even learn, although this theory is overrated by the apologists of effort and self-help.

.

And then you will see.

I took my daughter to see Atleti and we ate a shitty game, but the score is never the result of experience.

On the way to the car, chattering like crazy about how big the stadium was, how nice her new scarf was, and how good the popcorn was, I tried to focus Lola:

- What did you like most of all?

-

.

Everything suits us, but some things better than others.

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

• Atletico Madrid

The lawn mower What a gift, Cholo!

The notes of the dayFekir leads an unstoppable Betis

The ClauseThe (in)justice of Simeone

See links of interest

• Last News

• Translator

• What

• Work calendar 2022

• Home THE WORLD today

• Spanish - Seville

• Leeds United-Manchester United

• Valencia CF - Barcelona

• Wolverhampton Wanderers - Leicester City

• Real Betis - Majorca