FC Barcelona: The loneliness of a man without arms | Football | Sport

Eduardo Chillida was supposed to be Arconada before Arconada was born. Sculptor was already an excellent goalkeeper for Real Sociedad at the age of 19, but a tackle from Sanudo in the match against Valladolid – his last of the season – injured his knee and cut short his move to Real Madrid in 1943. awry, but it turned the archer’s experience into an art. “The goalkeeper has to develop a number of very special conditions of very quick and immediate space-time intuitions related to these two mysteries, space and time, which make me think that the conditions necessary to become a good goalkeeper and a good sculptor are practically the same the most,” he explained to his daughter Susana Cillida Belzunce for the documentary.

Goalkeepers are artists who live in that dihedron that forms the space that Chillida spoke of, a unique place on the field because it creates a unique vision of what is happening in three different places at the same time. They operate on a different emotional frequency and are often melancholic. Goalkeeper’s fear of penaltiesThe legendary book by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, written in 1970, is dedicated to Joseph Bloch, a fictional goalkeeper, a symbol of isolation and loneliness at crucial moments in life. It is no coincidence that the goalkeeper is the only one who dresses differently – with the referee – and can see the entire game from his court. Also the only one capable of more directly determining the fate of the match, its successes or mistakes. Not to mention those Barcelona who, according to a philosophical contract, are destined to play with their feet 30 meters from the goal, pointing a defibrillator into the stands. The man without arms, as Johan Cruyff dubbed him in one of his accurate butads.

Barça had a big problem with the injury of Ter Stegen, who didn’t have a replacement because he didn’t want one. The club allowed Arnau, a great goalkeeper, more intelligent than Joan Gaspar, to go to PSG, and he has two wonderful children in the youth team, but no experience. About Iñaki Peña, although Flick does not say it clearly, he does not seem to have much confidence. The loss to Osasuna was not his fault, but he took five shots between three sticks and scored four. Barça scored six times and scored twice (Sergio Herrera, not counting a mistake with Pau Victor, saved two accurate goals). In the Champions League, the number of shots on goal is reduced to around four per game. Like everything, it could be seen the other way around. But stopping two or three of those shots makes a difference.

Barcelona’s goal plan was highly controversial. No one now understands how it could have happened that Ter Stegen did not have a replacement in whom the coach completely trusted. A good replacement is needed, like Lunin last year, who led Madrid to the final, especially thanks to the penalty shootout at the Etihad. Life was unfair to the Ukrainian, as is usually the case with goalkeepers, and he did not play in the final. As far as possible now with Iñaki Pena, who will see former goalkeeper, Pole Szczesny, fighting for his place.

The difference between a team that wins the Champions League and a team that loses it could also be a syllogism cross– usually found between three suits. Real Madrid, for example, won ninth thanks to 21-year-old Iker Casillas, who came on as a substitute against Bayer Leverkusen and came on in the 61st minute due to Cesar’s injury. He stopped three balls in 90 seconds – especially the one that stopped Berbatov off the ground – giving him the advantage. Orejona the team then coached by Vicente del Bosque. Or the one that Madrid won against Liverpool thanks to Karius’ errors, and was in disarray for almost the entire game due to a blow that Sergio Ramos gave him, damaging exactly the spatial vision that Chillida was talking about. Poor Carius, by the way, disappeared forever after that. Maybe now I’m a sculptor.