There is only one footballer who has scored a goal to give a World To our country. And there are very few who have left the football legacy such as Andrés Iniesta. Everyone knows their sports facet. But personally it has always been perceived as a strong, almost relentless person, and who has rarely been out of his bockals.
In “The mind also plays” (Editorial Espasa), a soccer book in which there is no talk of football – in fact, none of their coaches or rivals or colleagues do not participate in it -, Iniesta He undresses and shows what is within that tranquility and wisdom that has always transmitted.
In the auditorium of one of Gaudí’s jewels, La Pedrera (Barcelona), the former soccer player counts Why did you want to write this book – For the one, he says, he has “squeezed” – in which he shines his crudest and most human face: “Everyone knows what my life has been since I left my people, but here I wanted to value the transcendence that the mind has». The Castellanomonchego takes the stage after being presented as someone who has shown that “you can succeed in a sidereal way and be a normal person.”
The secret of Success of his career It begins with having the courage to make difficult and painful decisions: «Patterns and logic tell us that it is counterproductive for a child to leave home at age 12 to put on course A site that does not know», Iniesta was sincere. However, life for him is something else: «You have to make decisions and take steps for very painful and terrible that they are, and in my case I was very clear that I was going to do what I needed to become The footballer who wanted».
An athlete from world size He faces extreme situations daily. Among others, receive that ball of Fábregas and have the courage to push it inside. But iniesta seemed not to alter any of the situations that anyone They would accelerate the pulsations: “Mentally I have always considered myself a very strong person, because to endure what I have endured I have had to know how to deal with what they were throwing away.” Anyway, there is much beyond the titles and success. Iniesta acknowledges in this book to have gone through mental moments very difficult: “There came a time when I told my mother that I couldn’t anymore and that I needed help.”
The only stretch of the purely football book is the one that deals with the figure of Dani Jarque. Iniesta is clear that ‘everything goes through something’ and recognizes “believing a lot in energy and in situations out of the rational.” And of course, he admits, «the one we live in that final in 2010 It wasn’t. «I really feel that we all score this goal, that We all push that ballalso Dani, ”he says.
After 22 years in Barcelona, Iniesta decided to leave Barça and leave to Asia: “It has been a wonderful time in Japan, they made us feel – my family already – as Japanese from day one. I feel a lot from Japanit was a super enriching gift, unpayable».
The Albacete of the Actualidad Barcelonista spoke, whose future sees with optimism: «Is nothing exaggerated think that Barça can win the triplet ». Recognizes the complexity of the challenge, since “it is difficult to achieve it because it has been done very rarely, but face the final stretch with Good feelings It is much better ».
As for his life after having hung his boots, he reveals the former soccer player who is being formed to be coachalthough he has not yet thought if he would like to sit in the Banchillo culésince it is in a Very initial phase.
