Since arriving at PSG, Pochettino lost one of the Super Cups, fell in the Champions League semi-finals and saw how Lille snatched Ligue 1 from him. In exchange for this deadly triple, the renewal of Neymar, the signing of Messi and Mbappأ©’s house arrest. Tgratifying news as a reward for each of your setbacks. You see, Onrubia (our new special envoy in Paris): there is no need to get overwhelmed at the beginning of a new life… That the Argentine coach now has to endure some face or other, like that of Messi for being replaced in the 75th minute against Lyon (as a precaution), compensates for what has been historically experienced so far in a year and should not move us or worry us more than reasonable.
One assumes that it will always be better to be able to have three world-class figures in attack, with their whims, than to chain together so many farewells in a while as has suddenly happened to Koeman. Even if you have to change the board to accommodate the collection of figures, respond to a thousand impertinences at press conferences or attract the spotlight on a daily basis with all that this entails. But every rule has its exceptions and each person is different. Sometimes, rarely, luxury tastes like poison to some. Bordalأ،s is the perfect example of how to be happy with less, exceeding rather low expectations every day. Now, after his miracles in Elche, Vitoria and Getafe, he does it with a discount Valencia.
The season appears, a priori, more motivating than ever for Pochettino. He manages the best team that anyone could imagine. However, his face is that of the trapeze artist or, much more common, that of the one who walks overwhelmed with every step in the chair game. Therefore, seeing him hold his gaze at Leo on the way to the bench (like a mother who doesn’t want the discomfort in her knee to get worse), I don’t rule out that at Christmas he leaves everything suddenly, before he does it. forced, he goes to the countryside like a hermit and begs that Numancia knock on his door one day. He would not be the first to surprisingly change his life, leaving behind the madding crowd, the demands, the stress and most of all, the misunderstanding. Tell that to Marcos Benavent, the commission agent from Rus who went from stealing like a posh to begging like a hippie, with how uncomfortable the vans are. Or Quique Setiأ©n, who, tired after his time in the most absolute elite and Barأ§a (which today are not the same or anything similar), walks around Cantabria having parties with friends and acting as an assistant in a youth team.
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With the change due to Messi’s injury, it is still dramatized. What is certain is that the analyzes have been biased and unfair. Everything is dissected from the player’s perspective. Perhaps that is the great influence of the stars, that we think of them to start the week off on the right note, when our partner tells us about the distribution of tasks or to fall asleep. What do you want me to tell you: being substituted with 15 minutes remaining, for whatever reason, at 1-1 and without having emulated Pel, should not be a trauma when the athlete is humble, supportive and understanding with the idea that camaraderie is not going out partying in a group but thinking about others. It is much more painful for a footballer to know that you are not a starter a few minutes before starting, despite everything indicating otherwise. Or be substituted before the first half, where Jأ©mez can give a master. Or to rest. What a bad time. When everyone returns to the grass and you you rip it off your heels. Or just in the moment before a penalty shoot-out, now so fashionable in England.
Although it may not seem like it or it is omitted, the coach also has a heart. And he must distribute it into a thousand pieces between the staff, the stands and the box. If for those who wear shorts there are more humiliating moments than others when leaving the field, for those who wear suits there are also more compromising minutes than others when replacing a footballer. The new rule of the five changes confuses more than helps and has only confirmed that sitting on a bench is a risky profession. Ordering a change at the beginning confirms an error in the alignment and that of the protagonist for dedicating himself to that profession. At half-time there is a risk of having a fifteen-hour mess in the most absolute privacy without the VAR being able to bring order. With little left until the end, he commits himself to sacred cows and great frauds. Stopping the game is giving a joker to the stands. Therefore, in 7-a-side football, which at this point is a boom, It is where there are the most smiles per square meter. You come and go with a flat rate.
Laugh, but how many fights have we avoided with this carousel of changes in the neighborhood. As we debate upcoming changes to the international regulations, with a view to making this sport more attractive and healthy, respectable authorities should take this into account. We cannot encourage a coach to be threatened already in September by the environment or by a small player who wears the 30 for those who only want care and whose only alternatives are to justify themselves at all hours, flee to the mountains or vent to Onrubia.
