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If Holland could not contain Spain in the 2010 World Cup final, the coronavirus has managed to delay the tribute to the great hero of that match, Andrés Iniesta ten years later . On July 10, when the decade of the final that made Vicente Del Bosque's team champion of the world is celebrated, the City Council of Albacete was going to inaugurate a sculpture that represents the player at the moment in which he scored the decisive goal of that encounter.

As announced on Tuesday by the city council itself, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the act to be delayed until a still undetermined date of the year 2021 . Iniesta was expected to be accompanied by players with whom, throughout his brilliant career, he has shared a shirt and successes, both in Barcelona and in the Spanish team. But that reunion will have to wait.

The sculpture has been financed by the Soliss Foundation, which biannually announces the 'Julio Pascual' Prize to honor people from the region. In its third edition, the jury selected the proposal by the Valencian artist Javier Molina Gil, awarded with 15,000 euros. It is a project entitled 'Unstoppable', a bronze statue one size larger than life and representing the Fuentealbilla midfielder scoring against the Netherlands. It will be located next to the Carlos Belmonte stadium in Albacete.

The sculpture has sparked hundreds of comments on Twitter. Not for the disappointment of the postponement, but for the fact that, in the photo used this Tuesday, it represents the naked footballer . Gaze at the ball (which is not shown in this image), muscles in tension and the concentrated gesture of those who face the decisive moment.

But neither the fidelity of the work of art, for which the sculptor took the real measures of Iniesta, nor the solemnity of the moment have prevented the jokes on social networks about the footballer's nudity. They are the things of the old relationship between sport and testiculin.

Let no one be alarmed. Shortly before eight o'clock in the afternoon, the Albacete City Council has clarified on Twitter that the photograph it shared this Tuesday corresponds to a sketch in clay. The athlete, he says, will appear with the sports equipment. When the coronavirus allows it, Iniesta will not receive his admirers naked, but dressed as a footballer. Just as he scored his goal for the history of sports.

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