the port of salvation


This week, Barça (the Board of Directors, to be exact) has made a pilgrimage to Montserrat, just on the eve of the day of the Virgin. A meeting that coincided with the funeral of the father Massot, one of the most important figures in Catalan culture, who was director of Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat for fifty years, the oldest active publishing house in the world. Little joke. A Majorcan scholar with an unusual intellectual and work capacity who was buried in the monastery on the very day that Joan Laporta he would arrive and be photographed, devout, before the Moreneta, and smiling in the midst of the children of the choir.

The president still retains the ability to generate symbolic gestures that since 2003 characterized his first term. That is why I was surprised that, on such an emotional day for the Benedictine community, he did not make reference (neither he nor the club) to such an outstanding personality as Josep Massot, who “worked tirelessly”, as the prior father said Bernat Julius, “for the most sublime expression of the soul of a people: its language and its literature”. In any case, the meeting in Montserrat produced one of the most positive news for the club in recent weeks. Implicated as we are in an agonizing struggle for this squalid present that we have had to live through, the appointment of David caraben (yes, that of Mishima, the son of Armand Caraben) as curator of the 125th anniversary events, which will take place while the team plays at Montjuïc or at a half-remodeled Camp Nou.

“It is an opportunity to explain everything that gives meaning to ‘more than a club'”. The son takes over from the father, a lineage that tells us about history, commitment and symbolism. Laporta still knows how to do these things, such as promoting the Barça Historical Memory commission. And there could not be a more emblematic place than Montserrat, on the eve of the Moreneta.

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Perhaps that is why, even with the emotional ‘Monterratina’ hangover, that, in the act of presenting the calendar for the reform of the Espai Barça, he said that “it will be the best stadium in the world in the best city in the world in the best country in the world & rdquor ;. Pure laportiano style. Surely it is true, but let time pass to check it and see if the operation with Goldman Sachswhich is based, let’s remember, on a placid navigation (of the club and of society in general) during the next 30 years.

At this point, only an inveterate and uninformed optimist can think that everything will be placid in the future. But hey, we’ll see. Meanwhile, while we try not to sink the ship, while we beg for the crumbs of a second place in the League, we cling, from Montserrat, to the past and to incombustible essences. That La Moreneta guide us towards the sky of the Champions League, which is not asking too much either. May it be, for sinners, the port of salvation.


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