A flood of common sense

If Pepe receives as Figo hurt me more than a phase

Pep Guardiola, coach of FC Barcelona

After Pepe's stomp Messi rivers of ink have run. They have said many things, too, and has exaggerated the matter as if, unfortunately, about the stomp was not more or less typical of a football field. Without going any further, the same weekend two League players BBVA became more or less the same. However, much of FC Barcelona, ​​starting with some of its executives have ignored these cases in favor of another that they find most convenient: the Balotelli.

Stomp the victim of the oversized Messi has been the case, as happened in the day with Ujfalusi. The difference is that the most that could have made ​​Pepe La Pulga is breaking a finger, while the checho could have seriously injured the Argentine. Of course it has not helped that the offender is someone with the background of the central Portuguese, but depending on who pays attention seems that Pepe is the first cunning of history, as if it had not existed, for example and without going any further, Hristo Stoichkov.

He had to get Pep Guardiola to stop the escalation of theatrical indignation. The water with which the fire is Guardiola has common sense, a quality that the show is the mass football misses continuously. Santpedor coach's press conference started wanting to draw attention to the meeting, leaving aside the personifications:

The important thing is to come throughout the world (...) that come to enjoy and forget what they have read. Come Madrid, not a player or coach.

Then, in reference to a possible reception of Pepe at the level of which he dedicated to Figo in their day (comparison powered by Rexach's comments ), Pep gave a real lesson:

If another situation like that we have not learned anything and will not be the club we should be. The FC Barcelona is sorry for that. This game moves a lot, but it's only a game. If you get to Joe as Figo hurt me more than a deletion.

In relation to the euphoria that seems to have settled in Barcelona, ​​Guardiola made things fell into place and the people of the globe:

The problem with this game is that "we are already qualified, they eliminated", but the game still have to play it. I imagine it complicated. Not be decided until the last minute (...) We have a 1-2 and if we manage that result, we removed (...) What we have to do is play, play and play ... tired of playing. If we wait we will see what happens as bad (...) I guess that we score a goal, so we monopolize the ball to the fullest.

And finally, at the insistence of journalists, and knowing that some players had already said "too much" about the case Pepe Guardiola wanted to leave the matter settled once and for all:

Let alone Pepe and committees that manage them.

In short, a new lecture Guardiola. Sportsmanship and FC Barcelona, ​​avoiding controversy and drawing attention to what really matters: the ball. Guardiola may like more or less, you can piss colony from time to time, you can philosophize or even get bored with his speech, but what can not be denied is that always puts football ahead. And not only leaves the club look good, but the whole Spanish football.