Vă recomand un interviu grozav din El Pais cu Cesar “Flaco” Menotti, unul din ultimii gânditori adevăraţi din fotbal. Câteva antreuri cât să vă fac poftă:
Despre politicieni, un paragraf care loveşte too close to home:
And the first thing they’ve done is to rob people the sense of belonging. Everything is theirs, including football. When the governor makes a street, it looks like he was the one who paid it from his own pocket. We were robbed the music, the parks, the squares and even football. And now they get surprised about people getting tired who end up camping in the squares.
Despre pierderea unei anumite culturi a fotbalului:
When I say that the Argentinian football suffered disculturization, I don’t talk about people reading Borges before. The culture of football was that, when I passed a bad ball, the other 10 players looked at you. I remember that, once, I was going to kick a side foul, all the team was up in the rival’s box, and I had to hang the ball. In the wall, there was just one player and I hit him. During one month, they were with the damn jokes: “If there’s a free kick, let Menotti kick it”.
Despre intalnirea cu Guardiola de acum câţiva ani:
There was something that made him different: He came here with a clear idea, he didn’t came to me like others, looking for inspiration, waiting for me to tell them the way to go as if I were a Messiah… He came with his idea and left with his idea. I was tired of talking with young coaches who come looking for the truth. Pep did not come looking for an answer. He already knew it.