AND If Puyol took the wrong job? Maybe he should have been a goalkeeper. Or, at least, that’s what those who approached the small field installed in the middle thought for a few minutes. Rockefeller Center for the legends tournament organized by the FIFA.
The eternal Barça captain ended up between the sticks almost out of necessity, but he turned the improvisation into a spectacle. He pulled out impossible hands, threw himself from one side to the other, made more than one legend desperate and celebrated each stop with the same rage with which he previously cut a ball on the line.. The public enjoyed it. His teammates too… although much less so when, between interventions, he called their attention for each defensive error.
Because Carles Puyol does not understand football without correcting, ordering and demanding…. even if it is a party. If someone missed a mark, he was there to remind them. If a colleague got lost, the fight would come.. And if it was necessary to put on the gloves to save the team, he did that too. The years go by, but there are footballers who never stop competing. Puyol, obviously, will always be one of them.