The World Cup is discovering a feather. His name is Mariano Rajoy and he is from Pontevedra, the former capital of Galician football in whose cathedral –the Pasarón stadium– the public cheered with the cry of “You have to gnaw it”. Come on, they sold the skin expensive...
Mariano Rajoy also has to be gnawed on before letting himself be carried away by the impression that his articles on Spain in Qatar are minor and somewhat cliché, because time and Germany will prove him right: there is a writer's whip, that his Brand is taking time to sign .
Rajoy's articles are published on the El Debate website, but they are expected in half of Spain. The title of the section is pure Julio Camba, a great columnist, an illustrious Galician: “That's how it was (or not)”. With flying colors –you have to improve, you can-, Rajoy results in the good game of Spain, although if he were from Delaware he might result in soccer in the USA.
What is Rajoy's great journalistic merit? It is brief and it is understood, instead of being extensive and pedantic, as would correspond to a former president of the Government called to write articles, a minor genre but very quarrelsome.
The proof of his critical success and that not all his readers are stupid is that he is read by Puigdemont, who has replied to Rajoy with grace – and that he has been sulking lately. To the Marianist phrase “Germany has proved me right”, the Waterloo fallow deer has replied: “Me too. And against you, by the way”, alluding to the Pyrrhic victory –Ceuta midfielder– in Schleswig-Holstein.
Let them kiss!
The further Spain goes in Qatar, the more readers Rajoy will have, who knows if the future Princess of Asturias of sport or communication. Rajoy must be gnawed at and not underestimated because she grows with adversity, like Cobo, Irulegui or Nemes, stars of the great Pontevedra. And if not ask Lionel Barber, director of the Financial Times between 2005 and 2020, in whose diary of those years (Winners or losers, Deusto editorial) he takes off his hat to Rajoy's management of the crisis of the 2013 debt.
They bark, then we tie. Or we win. Mariano, today Japan: disciplined and methodical.
