Today's footballers are bombarded by an avalanche of instructions that seem more like riddles, one server feared the worst. let's review They ask ball pros to press high or low block, make filtered passes, split and come out from behind with the polished ball, respect positional play, profile, swing, not fail in targeted control, cut lines in passing, play from wing to inside and, more would be needed, from wing to outside, attack the space, press after loss, have a good shot, of course have good feet and finally play the role of third man as if they were Orson Welles in tights and shorts. Between so much traffic report and pseudoscientific vocabulary, preventing the player's instinct from atrophying one day is a matter of time. The good news is that it still holds up. Or so it seemed on Saturday in Montjuïc when, suddenly, three cassocks fell from the sky in a row.
The cassock, also popularly called the tunnel, is a resource that reminds us that football is a street sport and that we will be in trouble the day we leave. It is an individual ramp that celebrates the cigalon to the detriment of the energy drink. It is a revolt against the academisation of football, which is very good until it becomes too far-reaching and becomes a castrating element of personal creativity.
It happened on the left wing (not on the left wing, ladies and gentlemen, low block, we don't eat our articles) of the Barcelona attack. In the same play, Balde dared with the first, Cancelo was the author of the second, the worst because he stepped on the ball to recreate himself in the execution, and the teenager Lamine Yamal completed the feat, which obviously, as the football of all life dictates, was the object of a foul.
When Xavi Hernández repeats himself out loud so we can all hear him that his goal this season is for his team to play better, he is asking, in a way, for his players to dare to wear cassocks. To play football well you need order and a lot of tactics, we will not deny that, but the ultimate goal, beyond victory, must be entertainment, and this comes when the footballer has somatized the board and begins to play unconsciously by heart, not thinking about what he has to do but doing it without thinking.
The talented player, and now Barça finally has a few of a very high level, needs to feel free even if he is never completely free, because this feeling will make him return to the street. From there, João Félix made the cassock of the night. The fourth He did it to himself, to mislead his marker and leave Lewandowski alone. And that's how Barça won on the road.
