Special Envoy in MadridI will begin these lines with a confession that the reader must be clear in order to decide if he wants to accompany me on this journey into the bowels of temper of evilotherwise called Santiago Bernabéu, or prefers to leave before starting. This text is written by someone who works as a journalist but who, in this story, has no intention of hiding that the writer is someone happy. very happy Someone who, despite the forms required by his job, has remained speechless in the Bernabéu press stand.
This is the text of someone who spent the whole day with his stomach removed waiting for the game. Someone who has woken up and moved to the capital of the kingdom thinking “what if Madrid paints our faces and brings us down from the cloud to which Hansi Flick has invited us to climb” in order, as the match approached, to fill his chest a little and say “butts, what if we win and we do it where it hurts them the most, at home.” And yes, we have won them. what a night We will hardly forget it.
This is the text of someone who types with his heart beating very revolutionized. Someone as excited as any fan who loves Barça. Someone who hugs the keys thinking that thousands and thousands of Blaugrana players have hugged their family members, their friends, their partner, any stranger they had around. In short, this is the text of someone who just wants to get closer to the emotions of all those we have tried to demolish the new Bernabéu.
This is the text of someone who was moved to see how a team full of youngsters trained at the Masia took a unique pride in the white coliseum. A pride that <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/see-live-match-barcelona-vs-real-madrid-free-online-without-ads-spanish-super-cup-spanish-league/" title="See LIVE match Barcelona vs Real Madrid, free, online, without ads, Spanish Super Cup | Spanish League”>Real Madrid can never have, a pride that belongs only to us, a pride modeled from home, a pride that is summed up in the brackets in the Blaugrana color that Lamine Yamal wore at the Bernabéu and that he displayed with the third goal. A pride that explains why Iñaki Peña has made a supporter in front of Mbappé.
This is a text from someone who was moved to see how the hundred Barça fans moved to the white stadium sang “Being from Barça is the best there is” after the 0-3, when white fans, with the long faces, reneging right and wrong, left their stadium embarrassed and ashamed when there were still 15 minutes to go. The same fans who, in the first half, were biting their nails, have not lost hope. They were the resistance of the Bernabéu, cornered in a corner, but making themselves felt in the last corner of the stadium. His party is everyone’s party.
This is the text of someone who screamed in despair and squirmed when Lewandowski missed the hat-trick. Someone who had already begun to waste his voice with the first two goals of a Lewandowski who, finally, is exciting and scoring in big games. Someone who was still suffering a little, a suffering so Catalan, so much as a Barça supporter, but, at the end of the day, someone who ended up losing what little voice he had left with the third and fourth goals. Stories of a Lamine Yamal who until then wasn’t as bright as we were used to, but who is always there and of a Raphinha determined to become a Barcelona icon.
This is the text of someone who had a wry smile under his nose when the referee decided that only two minutes would be added to stop the bleeding. Someone who wanted the fifth. This is the text of someone to whom Hansi Flick, like many Barcelona fans, has returned their emotion and pride. Our pride Someone who was moved by seeing that Barça is a team. A great team. Your team.
