Lopetegui said before the match that Barca are arguably the fittest team in Europe. It will be difficult to contradict him after last night's performance. If at the Bernabeu Xavi's team gave him time to recreate himself in victory, Sevilla, a superb rival, demanded all the tactical sample available, both individual and collective, to achieve the triumph. The Blaugrana starred in a splendid display of strength and football, typical of a team in a state of grace, already second classified, who would say, which will not be enough to take the League because Madrid is still far away and also in that phase so much his to win unintentionally, helped by elements (paranormal and influence) that he always knew how to handle.
Barça is so good with itself that at the moments of the matches, accompanied by a stand that lives the beautiful present with exaltation, it goes into a trance. Xavi's team began to string together scoring chances, ready to break a score, the 0-0, which is not going well because it does not represent him, and everyone intuited the goal, although no one imagined its delicate forms. It is one thing to score and quite another to do it as Pedri did. Faced with the best defense of the country planted on the axis, the boy stopped time with Canarian parsimony, engrossing those present, deceiving them with two tricks before letting go of the rocket. It was wonderful. Dembélé participated in the trance we are talking about with a defensive recovery celebrated with anger by himself. Never seen in the French, abducted and transformed by Xavi into an involved footballer.
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| Final ovation from the Camp Nou stands to the Barça players |
In the morning there was also applause, although they sounded very different.
As expected, the good sponsorship agreement with Spotify was approved by the shareholders' assembly. The telematic format, however, achieved the unthinkable: to worsen the already tenuous democratic representativeness of the club through the weak response of its delegates. Of the 4,478 summoned, 701 ended up voting, that is, a microscopic sample of the total social mass. Compared to other clubs, Barça will continue to distinguish itself by submitting (almost) everything to a vote, maintaining its uniqueness; but compared to that chauvinist discourse about the purity of its democratic gene, the image of neatness will again lose sharpness.
The convenience of the commercial alliance is little discussed (Spotify next to precursors such as Qatar supposes as a showcase to the world what Robert de Niro compared to Toni Cantó in the history of acting, everything and nothing), but the transparency of the process has been improvable, poorly illuminated by the alibi of confidentiality that, coincidentally, it turns out that he always asks for the other party. The request for applause in the room for the commission agent Darren Dein, of course once the vote in favor is closed, will already be part of the inexhaustible popular imaginary of this surprising club. An intermediary is lined and comes out in volandas. Finding out how much the spoils of the commission agent amount to still put the din of applause on hold.
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