“The frying will also be remembered” | Relief

On Tuesday, October 8, he will announce Andres Iniesta hangs up his boots for the event in Barcelona. Thus, the player who changed the history of men’s national football with the goal that gave the national team its only World Cup retires. This Fuentealbilla’s most memorable moment of geniuswho, as soon as he defeated Maarten Stekelenburg, took off his blue La Roja T-shirt to honor Dani Jarque.

Photo of Iniesta celebrating the most important goal in his country’s history with a message “Dani Harke is always with us” This is the best tribute he could pay to his great friend and one of the most memorable images of Spanish sport.

“It’s a dream that this happened. If you think about it, it’s impossible. Everything was perfect, we reached the final, and What better way to dedicate the World Cup to him; take off my shirt, let everyone see the message, who did I dedicate it to?“Iniesta showed in a documentary filmed by TV3, Markats sang 21where he also revealed running away this gesture: “Before you start the game, I told lifeguard Hugo to text me while he warmed up. And when he returned from warming up, he put it under the game room.“.

“It was fate or God who wanted him to be remembered at that happy and incredible moment too. This goal will go down in history, and Dani will be remembered. Gate image – T-shirt“, the former FC Barcelona player also commented on the TV program.

Later, this shirt, one of the greatest national treasures, He gave it to Espanyol. The blue and white club framed it and placed it in front of gate 21, named after Dani Jarque, where there is a life-size statue of the former blue-and-white captain and where there is also a mural of all the scarves and jackets the organization received as tribute after losing the youth parrot player. This space is like unanimous applause that every game in Cornella takes place in the 21st minutekeeps Jarque’s memory alive at Espanyol.

“I wanted to have every shirt of his.”

In the house of Andres Iniesta, as he himself explained in the book in his own handwriting. The sky is blue and whiteedited by Bruno Alemany and Moises Llorens, there is also a place for the memory of Hark: “I have over 20 t-shirts at home that I swapped with Dani.. Since we met in the national team, and from almost all our derbies, already with the first teams of Barça and Espanyol, respectively.”

“At the end of some derbies I was going to ask him for a T-shirt, which was already a tradition. and in some cases he did not give it to me because he was already engaged to someone else. I forgave him because although I wanted every one of his shirts, I accepted that one day he would give it to someone else and then there would be nothing left to be missed,” Iniesta also said that he often, like all footballers, he exchanged his jacket with another player and then gave it to people who liked it. But he never did this with the Heat: “I keep all of Dani’s things. I kept them and keep them.”.

They both met when they were “12 or 13 years old”. Since then they have met in almost all lower-category derbies, as well as in almost all lower teams in Spain and Catalonia. Actually, It was Jarque who drove Iniesta in the car after the concentrationswhen the one from Fuentealbilla, a year younger, still did not have a driver’s license. And thanks to this friendship, the Barça player learned “Live the rivalry between Barça and Espanyol in a different way”.

Iniesta himself has admitted more than once that he believes that Jarquet “would eventually join the national team”. Who knows, if he had achieved this, he would have witnessed the most important goal in Spanish history, the creator of which wanted to share it with him as a tribute to his friend from Espanyol.