Week of 2050. The story, the fable or the paragraph that Osvaldo Soriano, Fontanarrosa, Galeano or Sacheri did not write occurred to River Plate, a soccer club, which brought together eleven heroes in one night with a Copa Libertadores match against Independiente of Santa Fe.
Nicknamed millionaires or chickens, depending on the degree of affection, in River they had been plucked from the squad with 20 infected by Covid, including the four goalkeepers. River Plate turned a health crisis into an epic. Enzo Pérez, a pivot with a past in Valencia, was placed at the goal, who adjusted his gloves with the skill of a rookie.
Legendary institutions do not only feed on titles. From time to time they need an unusual story to embellish the biography. In the entity's hall of fame are Labruna, Francéscoli, Loustau, Passarella, Beto Alonso, Carrizo, Fillol and many others who already deserve the company of some of the boys who dribbled with the minutes that night.
Buffon's glove and Eibar
The Libertadores organization was an involuntary accomplice. Not suspending a game like this is equivalent to the sensitivity of a streetlight. River Plate won 2-1 and incidentally left the material for a book.
At 43 years old, it is normal for a professional to be a match commentator on Movistar, to have barbecues with friends, to review press clippings with their children and to listen to offers to publish a memoir. At that age, Buffon lifted the Italian Cup champion trophy. His Juventus is coached by a former teammate, Andrea Pirlo, with whom he won the 2006 World Cup.
Buffon resists that the hanging ball that reaches the area is the last of his career. He has announced that he is leaving Juve with the threat that he will continue to be active even though he knows that he no longer reaches the corners that he scratched at 30 years old.
The height of romanticism is that Buffon retired in Eibar, the town of the Asterix of the ball that returns to Second. A climb in Ipurua with the Italian giant is out of the question except at this time.
End of cycle
Laporta announced the end of the cycle at Barça. Life is full of them. More than one has expressed it in a night of taking several penultimate drinks when it's six in the morning. Barça is an expert in half-cycle endings. He is doing them in episodes for summers, a strange modality that eats away at the entity. We will see if this is the definitive one.
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