
He whistles, cinéfilo, he more does not need to read the book to know it, although he is conscious that soccer has different tempos and to all it is necessary to adapt. Nevertheless, when he finds his, next to Xavi and Iniesta, short that never were rejected by their stature as it happened to him to the canary, he plays for something more than to win. He plays to enjoy, that is the best form to live.
One finishes to the tail of children and mothers without nobody remains without its autograph or its photo, and in spite of pressure, of hot dinner and fine rain, Whistles begins the interview the other way around, with a question:
- How is everything? All calm one?
, But not indeed better not to say it and to change to express the third.
- And you? Better east year…
- I? Very calm… The past year the injury did not let find me to me in the field. I happened through the operating room, I fell later and I arrived at the Glass Confederations, in South Africa, evil, outside form. I hardly could help the equipment.
Without Silva really and Iniesta nor the Seine, injured, Spain it disputed the match without three of the four midfield players of the Eurocopa. Shared in common with those who replaced to them, the soccer player of the Valencia does not put it in relation to the elimination before the United States: “We lost a party because it was not our day, but had occasions, that are the important thing. It was necessary to lose some and he was that one. Hopefully we lose one each thousands”.
Discarded by low.
The selection, in which it will return to be to title before Bosnia, is the perfect form of this small soccer player, of 1.70, handicap del that can be made virtue in the most democratic sport, according to Johan Cruyff, because it admits to all, high and low, corpulentos and thin, each with its qualities. In the case of It whistles, are his mobility in short spaces, with a low change and center of gravity, that allows him to resist the loads of the opposites without losing the vertical, excellent of rate. All that associate to the own technique of the canary school and to its vision and firing.
“It is certain that by my characteristics I feel more comfortable with a possession game, but soccer has a speed for every moment and is necessary to be able to dominate them all. It is necessary to know how, for example, to read a counterattack, something that the Valencia has done well from many years back, and that also were a weapon of the selection in the Eurocopa. It is important to know that, at the most fast it is a transition, major it is the danger for the opposite but also for your own equipment, because if you lose the ball you can find with the opposed effect”, explains.
The international of the Valencia, 23 years, alludes to the duality that it confronts, between its club and the selection, on positive, not like a problem, and insists on which with Unai Emery they take steps with more ball forwards: “Míster it is trying that we have more possession, but without losing other virtues”. Next to Villa and Mata, also international, It whistles is creator of one of the unfoldings of faster defense to attack of Liga: “The Guaje does the simple things much more to you. We have been as much time together that both we know what thinks the other about the field”.
- You also are a good partner for Xavi. In fact, it seems a product of the same school.
- Xavi knows to handle all the moments of the party and is impossible to rob the ball to him. It is very easy to be understood with him and Iniesta. Whenever I come to the selection attempt to enjoy them… Also in the Valencia I have companions with whom it is a pleasure to play, by all means.
He was Aragonese Luis who decided to put them to all together ones, to those midfield players to whom used to reject the clubs by its stature. It happened to him to Cazorla, in Oviedo, and it happened to him to Whistles, nothing less than in Madrid. When he was 12 years old, the president of the Arguineguín, equipment of his town, to the south of Las Palmas, convinced to the head of the family Jiménez Silva he took so that it to a test. The person in charge of the white quarry was then Vicente of the Forest, present selector. It liked and it asked to him that it returned the following year, because it considered that to the so young being it was better than followed a time with its family.
Fernando, the father, and their son returned, but Of the Forest he was already in the first equipment, and saw that it in Madrid it seemed to him that he had little physical. He was not of the same opinion Eduardo Macià, present sport director of the then Liverpool and in the Valencia. Suso Garci'a Pitarch, in that one time in the structure of Mestalla, said to him to its father who the boy had future and, like test, would begin by 90 Euros to the month.
- Of 90 Euros to 90 million, the paid ones by the best more expensive soccer player of history, Ronaldo Christian…
The gesture is more eloquent than its own words.
- It is very many money, it is certain, but no player, neither Christian nor nobody, is responsible for that. We are not the guilty than one is pleased by us.
The Valencia did something more. It contracted the father, employee in tasks of security next to the first equipment, something to which is thanked for. “He was a good player who never could leave the town. Of as much accompanying it to the field, almost I was soccer player by obligation”, says that fulfilled the paternal dream with fixations of its time: Laudrup and the pump of Zidane in Glasgow. Game and goal, that is Whistles.