I even remember the color of the paper. I must have been seven or eight years old and I jumped out of bed, for good reason: it was Three Kings’ Day and the gifts were waiting in the dining room. As soon as I opened the door, I saw her at the end of the couch. Among other wrapped packages, most of them square or rectangular, one completely spherical one stood out in one corner. There was no doubt: it was a ball. I eagerly tore off the blue paper with silver stars and hugged her warmly. Maybe he had shot others before, but this one was different. It was my first leather ball. Mine. White with black octagons, as the canons dictated then before the balls were filled with strange drawings and a thousand colors, that ball became an extension of me for many years.
I remembered my first ball courtship yesterday, when before the game against Las Palmas and the umpteenth Catalan-Culé effort to celebrate important dates with defeats, I saw the excellent short film Volem the pilotinspired by David Carabén’s manifesto.
If you haven’t seen it and you are culés, do yourself a favor and look for it.
Those images transported me to the days with my first ball, when I was a child and I suddenly realized that I had not chosen to be a member of FC Barcelona, that it had simply happened. I was from Barça. It happens with the genuine things in life that define us, such as falling in love, having or not having faith in God or sexual condition, which if they are true are not chosen; They just happen.
For this reason, and despite the unacceptable performance of the team since the victory at the Bernabéu, with a point of nine in the league that has squandered the advantage achieved, I have decided to dedicate this column to the good taste in the mouth of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the club. I am even capable of overlooking the notable absences at the Liceu event (Guardiola, Puyol, Iniesta, Luis Enrique, Messi, Evarist Murtra, etc.) because days before Carabén gave us culés an interview with the Argentine star in the that the ten was full of praise and nostalgia for the club of his life.
David Caraben
That wound remains to be healed, but there is time if the will is put. The inauguration of the new Camp Nou would be an unbeatable day to bring together the main legends in the club’s history, allow the stands to thank them with a standing ovation, and immediately afterwards make peace with the best. After an excerpt of the interview between Carabén and Messi was published, the enfant terrible from Twitter culé, Jaume Torres, which I subscribe to. “This should end with 105,000 people at the Camp Nou finished in 2026 with a Barça-Argentina. Half hour ovation, half part with each team, statue and everyone happy. “Go home and the matter is over.”
And to turn 125 more years.
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