Soccer is generous and leaves room for all sorts of poor judgments that are forgotten after a while and do not penalize their perpetrators. We have all sinned. Around Jordi Alba, a player with much more delivered performance than collected love, two theories that made their fortune were handled, both during the last summer, both defective.
The first, based on true events, recalled that the left-back was a difficult-to-digest substitute and that the signing of Marcos Alonso, who came up with the idea of ​​competing with him before Balde overtook them both on the left (for where else), it would make you nervous. That first thesis was dismantled by Alba himself, behaving like a responsible tutor rather than like a gruff veteran eager to fight. He did not do what was expected of him. As if he had a rival player in front of him in the attack zone.
The second thesis, also very widespread, assured that Xavi Hernández would not dare to demote his former wardrobe partner because their friendship, added to an alleged fear of facing the old guard, would contract his character at the moment of truth. The Terrassa coach has exposed those who sensed that he was fragile by sitting Alba out for a large part of the season and inviting the legendary Piqué to take the path of retirement beforehand. The result is the end of a meticulously executed changing of the guard in the dressing room and an important title in the bag, the League, an achievement whose conquest has been much more complex than it may seem. Xavi has had a hard time sleeping, even though he keeps his hair.
As happened with the farewell video first for Piqué and then for Busquets, Jordi Alba truffled with violin music and images of his childhood playing in the Barça youth academy a meaningful goodbye message. The images belong to Barça TV, a channel that will be closed for financial reasons. It’s a shame. The documentary booty that this channel’s archive contains of the club’s promises, then possible cracks, is priceless. It would be nice if the renewed football team that is beginning to emerge generates as much enthusiasm and wealth as the one that preceded it, the one that enjoyed the connection between Alba and Messi. If it happens, the cameras will soon return to record images of the future figures. Alba was undoubtedly one of them.
