The Brazilian repeats the scene as in 2008, when he arrived from Seville. At 38 he is still hungry and willing to make a difference. And the sports director Alemany stops the market: “The wage limit does not allow us to do anything else”
There were 10,378 spectators to re-see Dani Alves. A thousand more than the presentation of the new coach, Xavi Hernandez. Dani Alves showed up at the Camp Nou in the most popular Brazilian flip flops in the world, and then took them off and stepped on the grass with his bare feet. And so he remained, barefoot, next to the president Joan Laporta to listen to the Barça anthem and to receive the warmth of the public. Then he put on the ‘chanclas’ as they call them here and with his purple sunglasses he went to chat with the reporters in the press room. Many questions, long answers, energy, enthusiasm, proclamations and the certainty of still being able to give so much to this bewildered Barça and orphan of Messi. “Give me two hours and I’ll bring him back here,” said Dani Alves jokingly.
No market
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And Laporta: “Maybe Leo and Andres (Iniesta, ed) will one day come back as Dani did. And how did Xavi ”. A joke that of the president. “At the moment we have managed to enroll Xavi and his staff, and the salary limit does not allow us to do anything else, even in January. For someone to come, someone has to go ”said clearly Mateu Alemany, the manager of the technical area of Barça. Other than Adeyemi, Sterling or other bombastic names that appear one day and the other also among the short-term objectives of this indebted Barça.
I come to fight
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Dani Alves had arrived from Sevilla in 2008. Even then with flip-flops. He spent 8 years at the Camp Nou, winning 23 of his 45 titles, the most recent being Olympic gold. No one in the history of football has won as much as he has. “I told the president that I wanted to return, and I insisted a lot – Alves said – in the end I convinced him. When Xavi called me, it took us a moment to find an agreement. I don’t come here to pass the time, to live well. I come here to fight, to fight for a starting position, to help win on and off the pitch to make young people understand what it means to wear this shirt, something that is not always clear to everyone. I am not looking at the 2022 World Cup but in the short term. I have no automatic renewal clauses: if I play 4, the story ends. To be confirmed it takes an 8 or a 9. And I’m not going to be second to anyone, because I’ve never been. I want to play”.
Different interpretations
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Barcelona need Dani Alves’ charisma, strength, character and smile. Which can be interpreted in a very varied way, positive or negative. But the Brazilian, who hasn’t been on the side for some time but has moved further ahead, has no doubts: he feels he can do well and can be important. The return was a show, now we’ll see what happens on the pitch.
November 17, 2021 (change November 17, 2021 | 21:57)
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