FErran is an ambitious guy. Its people are ambitious people. The one from Foios has gone directly into the history of Spanish football. He is the Iniesta of 2026. He is Spain’s goal, everyone’s goal. With the number seven on his back, the Barcelona forward’s World Cup started out as torture, but we already warned him, Ferran never gives up, he always gets up.
Little by little his iron mentality took over the character and little by little a message began to spread among those of us who know him. “He’s going to score the goal of the final.” It was an almost daily message. And so the round of 16 and the quarterfinals passed (in which he already appeared with a magical assist) and the semifinals and the final arrived and the message intensified.
Goal by Ferran Torres (1-0) in Spain 1-0 Argentina
The funny thing is that it’s been a few years now. When Ferran was already Ferran, but was not yet Ferran, a good friend, when we were talking about his future with the player in front of him, in a Leaderbrock office in his native Valencia he told him without blinking: “Ferru, you are going to score a goal that will go down in history.” Ferran laughed, but in his eyes you could see that he wasn’t going to stop until he got it. And he did it. Nothing more and nothing less than in the final of a World Cup and in New York before the eyes of millions of people.
Ferran goes down in history, embroiders a star on his shirt and sits next to the Iniesta of my life. In 2010 he was a ten-year-old boy who was already playing for Valencia and dreamed of being like Villa. This time ‘Guaje’ celebrated his goal in the stands as if he had scored it in South Africa. The one from Foios smiles and his smile is that of Spain. A goal to win the World Cup, to defeat the Argentina of the best player in history, a goal for everyone.
