There is a very curious dynamic in this Barça Xavi. The coach, when analyzing the match, tends to avoid stereotypes and, being an intelligent man, tries not only to interpret reality, but also to teach. They are press conferences that are worth it. Of course: it reproduces, encounter after encounter, a similar scheme. “It’s been our mistakes,” he says. And he adds: “And that we had worked on it in training.
When Xavi analyzes the match, he tends to avoid stereotypes and, being an intelligent man, tries not only to interpret reality, but also to educate
He gives the feeling that he forgets the maxim of football and, in general, of any sport. We speak precisely of a game of errors. This is the essence. If everything prepared in the closed-door sessions ended in an idyllic reality, parallel and mimetic of training… if each of the teams that has worked on the positions, the markings, the set pieces were faithful to the lessons of the mister… if every precisely crafted tactic ended up becoming an unassailable certainty… then every match would end in a draw. And not even that, because a tie would also mean mistakes when it comes to shooting on goal. That is to say: the error is not only inescapable, but necessary.
Minimize the error
What it is about, surely, is to minimize them, to do what he proclaimed Josep Pla when he spoke of literature. The operation consists of having a brilliant idea before writing, knowing that you have the potential to achieve a masterpiece; and then when you put it on paper, you have to try to lose as little percentage as possible between what you imagined and what you write. Losing the minimum of excellence that has been established and studied, but being aware that, whatever you do, you will inevitably leave behind a part along the way.
President Laporta’s a posteriori harangue is one of those kinds of paramilitary messages that are made before a match, not after
Xavi He belongs to the group of obsessives, of those who see football as chess or as a theory relative to the universe of physics. Cause and effect. If I do such a thing, if I foresee it, it will come to pass. And it’s not this.
But perhaps it is what this Barça lacks to achieve, one day, that attempt at perfection that we had years ago. Maybe that’s why Xavi, aware of what could end up happening if the stars join forces with his brain, recognized “the turning point” in the desert classic, but at the same time he left Riyadh “sad and angry”.
The president’s harangue
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On the other side of the Barça spectrum, the president’s post-hoc harangue Laporta. These types of paramilitary messages are made before a game, not after. “Very good, brave!” he said as the center button of the shirt was about to shoot off towards Dubai.
“It’s a pride,” he exclaimed with resistant impetus. “You have shown your face!” Yeah, okay, we all agree, but the symbology of enthusiasm (he repeated “pride” five times!) is that of a small team, which is what, today, we still are. It is more the reflection of General Custer than that of the intrepid (and stubborn) Ulysses.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com