The amazing story of Harvey Esajas

If football were all goals, great players, spectacular moves and exciting games, it would be really boring. Sorry ... I'll start again. If the football all revolve around the flashes, the multimillion-dollar contracts, large presentations and glamor of the stars, everything would be dull and predictable, but sometimes football offers us stories out of the ordinary and are able to surprised when it seems that we've seen everything in football but Arab sheiks attempt to demonstrate otherwise. And that sometimes, in matters of reason does not demand the ball.

In previous chapters Football Notes saw how the Dutch had more or less success, leadership in Milan over the past decades, but among all the players who were appointed who lacked a history wanted to reserve for a separate post and that surely nobody or very few, would miss. Esajas His name is Harvey, a former Dutch football midfielder who played for Italian club during the 2004/05 season and then who will tell their adventures and misadventures in the magical world of football.

Born in Rotterdam in 1974, Harvey wanted to be a footballer. In that way, and although I had a flash in the front, went to school where they coincide with Ajax and befriended an illustrious player in the quarry as Seedorf ajacied despite it not being red, and it belonged to Harvey generation of those famous defeat for Capello Lord someday and win the European Cup so without riding broomsticks.

But this is not a fairy tale or a story about teen wizards where everything is arranged Alohomora shouting, but rather a series of Unfortunate Events. That way, Harvey had to leave the Ajax without ever first-team debut aged 19 to be transferred from Gryffindor to Slytherin, or whatever it is, of Ajax Feyenoord. In the house of eternal rival, where he was always watched very closely by its origin, did not quite succeed, and after spending three seasons with hardly any role in the Dutch club sought new destinations in smaller schools such as Groningen, Cambuur or Dordrecht'90 where the magic was practiced to a trickle.

When it seemed that Harvey would throw in the towel and return to his village in Rotterdam abandoning his dream of becoming a new player appeared on the scene an old friend from the time of Gryffindor, Clarence Seedorf, who had left Hogwarts to play for Real Madrid. Seedorf get Harvey his friend to accompany him on his quest to become part of the second squadron of cavalry: the Real Madrid B. Everything seemed to gather new meaning, but do not forget that this is A Series of Unfortunate Events, and bad luck was again primed with Harvey. Seedorf was forced six months to go to Middle Earth, located in Milan, which Harvey went back to Madrid and left only to have him after the season.

Far from home, Harvey sought shelter in some areas of the zone as Zamora or Móstoles, where he had the misfortune of breaking his Achilles tendon. Tired of her misfortunes, Harvey decided to leave the world of magic in 2001 and get back to the Muggles, wandering the land looking for a job Móstoles to make a living. So, Harvey worked as a dishwasher and even a circus employee. Away from the magic world of football put on weight to 100 kilos.

Tired of life in the circus, Harvey decided to travel to Middle Earth in 2002 in search of his friend and old adventures. Thus, Seedorf, who was a respected gentleman gallons made in battle, he got several tests in the homes of Turin and Florence, but none of them found fortune as old injuries and argued that the neglect of recent years could not return to required level.

All seemed lost, but Seedorf returned to get a new challenge: to train with the second squad of Milan, the team prmvr With the condition that he would not be a contract until you return to be back ready for battle. So Harvey trained and coached until 2004, three seasons after his retirement, he returned to be part of a team to sign a one-year contract with AC Milan's Carlo Ancelotti.

His chances of jumping to the battlefield was minimal because it was normal to be the last option of Ancelotti in a team of warriors from the likes of Shevchenko and Kaka, but each call meant a prize for him until, with 30 years , entered a game Coppa and resolved before the Palermo to play the final three minutes, and even point was to give a goal that Tomasson assistance launched over the bar. With that, Harvey finally fulfilled his dream.

After completing a contract with Milan this season that he even travel with the team to the final in Athens that the Rossoneri finally lost to Liverpool, Harvey continued to play a couple of years in the Calcio Lecco Legnano and the C2 Italy, after which definitely left the magical world of football. Today, Harvey recalls his adventures and misadventures as Unfortunate Events, in his words, "the incredible story of the man who made the impossible possible."

And, if this had in their day to one who fell from scaffolding to climb on stage, in Harvey who have left the tent to enter the field.

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