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Mr. O'CONNELL by Victor Duke of Seras

hanged himself three years ago on this blog an interview published in El País by Victor Duque. Today marks 75 years of the completion of the first and only, league title for Real Betis Balompié (that was not Republican Real Betis). Like three years ago, the times are still fateful for this (my) Club, or worse, if possible, and do not speak of sport, but the majority owner of the shares and alleged looter who unfortunately have to suffer. For this reason and because I'm excited, I get it back and leave a small record its century-old history. Manquepierda.





April 27, 1935. The next day we play the last league match. Real Betis Balompié need a win in Santander champion. Betis coach, Patrick O'Connell, and his player Larrinoa, which had belonged to the Spaniard team, come to the hotel where it is concentrated to greet Racing and "poll" the environment.

"You no longer you play you anything. Tomorrow I will kill for no gain, right?, Asked O'Connell.


"Sorry, Mr. . Madrid is pushing us so that you win. Our president, Jose Maria de Cossio, who is Madrid, gives us a thousand pesetas per head if you win.


had no choice: they had to win on the pitch. Patrick O'Connell (Dublin, 1887-London, 1959) recalled that then surely match between Manchester United and Liverpool which became English football history as the most corrupt in its history: known as The fixed match (the match-fixing). The year was 1915 and Patrick O'Connell was captain of Manchester. A group of players from both teams was at a pub in Manchester, and agreed to cross an 8 to 1 bet that the outcome of the meeting was going to be 2-0 in favor of United. The match, played on Good Friday, 1915, was 2-0. Captain O'Connell had the opportunity to gain the penalty marker. But threw it near the corner flag ...

Someone must leave the language and eight players were suspended for life. Two of them died in the First World War, and five were spared to recognize fraud. Only one, Enoch Knoche West, served the punishment to maintain his innocence throughout life. Today, his name is on the honor roll of the players of Manchester United alongside Beckham, Cantona, Best or Bobby Charlton. O'Connell, curiously, was released without charge.

O'Connell, the defensive midfielder from Manchester, had become famous by winning the Triple Crown (British tournament between teams) a few years before with Ireland for the first time in its history. He succeeded in what was called The party of 9 and a Half Men . That meeting was contested by Ireland and Scotland. A bit of a start, Ireland lost to a man injured. There being no change followed by ten. Moments afternoon break an arm O'Connell. The Irish decided to follow the match and win the tournament.

O'Connell's life was always a destination: Soccer. A fate that made him leave his large family in the early twenties in England, and train in Spain to Racing Santander, whom he succeeded brilliantly to dispute the first League Championship in 1928. After passing the Oviedo docked at Betis in 1932 and Barcelona in 1935.

On July 18, 1936, the coach of FC Barcelona is vacationing in Ireland. Two months later did not hesitate to go to Barcelona to continue his work. If he had survived a World War playing football, could survive a civil war training absurd. The Republican said O'Connell is the star of Barca's famous tour of Mexico during the fratricidal conflict. That role has trouble leaving the country, where back in 1940, no one knows how to train the Betis and Sevilla, settling permanently in Seville. Specifically, Progress Street number 29.

In all that time, the O'Connell family, who lived in Manchester, occasionally receiving a money order with money from Spain. His sons idolized photos of a father he hardly knew whom they considered a hero. A June 12, 1949, in Dublin, Ireland, Spain faces. A young Irish fan asked the English delegation, after the game, if they knew such an O'Connell who had trained in Spain.

"I'm his son Daniel, and some time ago that we know nothing of it. Guillermo

Eizaguirre, coach, is Seville. O'Connell says he lives in Seville. One Irish fan enough money together and a year later, he traveled in search of an unknown father, who had not seen for thirty years. That trip is narrated by Daniel himself in his narrative Travel to Seville Third Class.

Upon arrival, what sounded like Daniel gets warm welcome in cold and distant treatment. O'Connell quotes him in the Parque de María Luisa. The first thing his father does not ask about the family, but by the progress of Manchester United. Daniel is presented to society in Seville and O'Connell's nephew. Signs become certainties in the youth's head. Begins to understand that his father has another family in Seville. The newcomer's questions vertiginous:

"Dad, how is Spain?

-Spain is like a football match in which two teams try to corrupt the referee.

"Dad, how is Sevilla?

-Sevilla is a place where people live as if you were to die this night.

"Dad, is it true that you won the league with Betis?

"Yes. An April 28, 1935, in Santander. We won 0-5. It was the April Fair, the festival here.

-Dad ... Daniel

never dared to ask his father the ultimate question. The myth had humanized cruelly on that trip to Seville. Daniel's mother never knew or ever wanted to know, and loved the missing captain of Manchester United until the end of his days. Today is again April 28. Feria de Abril. In Seville opens a monument to the Betis team that led the League to the Fair in 1935. Thank you, Mr. O'Connell.

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ANTOFAGIA by David Trueba

Yes, I know Messi much here, but what can I say? By the way, great article Trueba.

I love sports topics. They are simple, sometimes silly, I know, but I like them. The last, after prodigious performances of Messi with Barcelona, \u200b\u200bI've heard repeated hundreds of times in recent weeks: "With it we are running out of adjectives." Jokes are invented every day hundreds fail because the day that someone makes a fool of or is in evidence, but to invent adjectives must come excellence.

But Messi is so good that adjectives are not lacking. For example, nobody has said that Messi is still anthophagous or isotropic. Anthophagous is one that feeds on flowers. It seems that Messi is his energy on the embellishment. Always try to make beautiful, not content to make it practical. This is what separates the artist from the bracero. When Messi was done with the ball usually understand the difficulty and the easiest path because the path is hidden, no one can predict. What makes it impossible to make is that it is unusual. There is no defense in front of you can imagine what he imagines. Facing him is like being in the dark in a strange house. Isotropic

is that which has the same properties in all directions. Broadcasters do not usually use this adjective in case they blunderbuss. But one day I asked a player who had to face Messi in a game and was very graphic: "Look, there's a time when you get to confused about which is the direction in which the attack and what you stand for ". And is that sometimes moves backwards or open closing or face profiling. The fact is that when you rediscover your goal with the ball inside.

has modeled plays the classical repertoire of the myths with such accuracy that some have said that playing with ouija . This kind of Houidini without cheating has sent many defenses to review of sight. But rather should return to geometry class because under Messi is going through where there was space. This is a fundamental issue in football because the game is to create a place to develop the game outside the coordinates of the enemy. The large pins, now so precious, they have this virtue. Extend the field to do infinite. Messi takes the ball on his feet, kicking and shoving between, assisted by his small stature and strength.

Messi, also has no cosmetic ad face, so that the camera does not seek the limelight as with other players. When the ball reaches you, the director opens the plane to look at the whole body. As did the good music directors when Fred Astaire danced, taught it without cuts or details, merely pursuing his perfect cadence. The bad news for rivals is that players have enjoyed over and just to get home and watch it on TV.

No player is an island. And Messi is supported by their peers. It is an orchestra concert soloist. Exploited the possibilities of a collective game, sometimes for individual crowns. But not someone caught in his own party as many races mythical resemble the actors who play such a display of an autonomous powers of history and the rest of the cast who are called poisoners of wells because after drinking them, the water is not potable. Messi allows the play to grow even after going through it. Indeed, the great enigma of the future hangs Messi of Argentina in the World Cup. The irritating failure of the team to play a consistent score becomes a gifted violinist in a sad and downcast be also dragging the unjust suspicion of an entire country.

Messi When he brought to The Farm with 12 years would be to thank as much as the Guernica brought to Madrid. Learning that loneliness and rootlessness formed a player who sometimes fades to black, is clouded and lost smile and the bad times seems to be so damn football. Feature, if true, would reveal a crystalline intelligence. Football is one thing you can be tired when you play so well. Barcelona's why this is the right team for him. Because it motivates you in the game itself, not only with the result. So this year Month-si went crying after being eliminated in Seville, with its six glasses still shining, and asks to play the games until the end dragging either pain or no glory against rivals to offer. This is where states and non-star player. Which recognizes our planet and not in distant galaxies. This is where Arsenal are back with a game more to be gained, without laying golden frame.

Of all Messi anecdotes I like one that is not the main character. In a cup game against Benidorm, the club claimed a penalty. The keeper, seeing that Messi was going to throw, went to central defender and asked if he had no idea why I used to throw the Argentine side. The defense cocked his head and told the doorman: "Chico, the truth is that usually pull in". Can not tell you better the helplessness that has produced the opposite. Similar to sports journalists when you want to invent an adjective.

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MESSI AND MARADONA EN EL DIVAN THREE by John Carlin

" to see if it is really going to be better than me ." A non- Diego Maradona entirely happy, a partner, after Messi's goal against France in February 2009.

reviewing the brilliance without adjectives of Leo Messi the other day, a blogger English offered the following insight: that the only force in the universe capable of stopping the Argentine was his compatriot, and coach Diego Maradona.

on the field no one falls short because the secret is to not stop with his feet but his head. Must penetrate the brain of Messi and influence their mood with the purpose of diluting its high dose of the elixir of life, confidence. The objective is inhibited, make you doubt yourself in those moments in a game that make the difference between success and failure, between the certain and the loss dribble the ball between the goal and the success of the goalkeeper. We're talking microseconds in which, with a clear mind, Leo is Leo and the impossible becomes reality. Contaminated with the mind, however, is even more complicated effort.

And this is precisely the impact that has on Messi Maradona. Wonderfully wicked, arguably, since the success of God as coach of Argentina in the World South Africa depend on the ability of Messi to play at the highest level. A liberated and happy Messi is capable to lead Argentina to conquer the World Cup as a player Maradona did in 1986. But, as the Argentines do not stop complaining when Messi change the Blaugrana jersey of Barcelona by the albiceleste of your choice becomes a sad, weak, caged.

The problem is not the color of the shirt, the kryptonite of Superman is Maradona. Maradona Is aware of the destructive impact it is having on Messi, and himself as coach? Surely not. Maradona is many things but nobody ever accused him of being a reflection Socrates. Then, we have no choice but to resort to the spring favorite of the middle class in Argentina, psychoanalysis.

The message conveys the unconscious Diego goes something like this: I'm God in my country because I won the 1986 World Cup and I turned to my fellow countrymen-and for much of humanity in the best football player all time. My condition of God depends on to maintain that status, I do not get out of the pedestal, or that no-one else appears my son, or God-worthy of sharing the pantheon with me, or even to dethrone. If I stop being considered the best, as the most admired Argentine history, I stop being me. Because I am not I, but made a notion in the minds of the Argentines that I too have believed. Whereupon, if I be the one true God, I lose my identity. We no longer know who I am. Because there is nothing else.

The fate of Argentina in the World Cup depend on whether Maradona is able to impose reason to powerful forces emanating from your unconscious, it is very difficult task, even for normal people. The reason, in this case, is to make the human and the divine to feel so good Messi playing for his selection as when he plays for Barcelona, \u200b\u200bto stop doing what Maradona has been doing, it undermine your confidence transmitting mixed messages, saying one day that is a pacifier, another that everything depends on it. Fixed in Pep Guardiola, coach Barca's Messi, pampering private, secure, and makes no public a) of praise; b) to remember that the weight of the results lies with the whole team, not just him.

The question then is, how many really want you Maradona as coach to win a World Cup? The challenge is to put the interests of the country to the ego that the country has so swollen. Very difficult, repeat. But with Diego, which has slowed (presumably) his passion for cocaine and has even become the bed of death, you never know. Maradona has to work another miracle: they have to beat Messi himself to be invincible in all colors.