Carles Puyol, eternally exemplary

I said in the post about the game between FC Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano , the controversy and celebration featuring Thiago Alves after scoring the fifth goal of the game wanted to treat it in a separate post. First, not wanting to mix with something as purely footballing side, and second because I'm sure it's an issue where there will be a wide disparity of views and is well to have them all concentrated here.

I start from the obvious basis that neither Thiago Alves or have committed no crime, but have become the football in a spiral of shit where any nonsense is worthy of debate and controversy. So the players should be free to celebrate a goal as they please, as the home crowd recriminárselo rival. But a goal is a happy time, and each expressed as the feel and flow, provided it does not lead to a clear lack of respect for the opponent, and as far as I know, dancing is not an offense. Many who are fed up to give those who wear suits are applauding one year Neymar carousels videos doing the same.

Personally, this kind of celebrations seem ridiculous, but I respect that each player chooses a way that takes your fancy to show their joy. It is true that the more bulky hurt more is the score, but we must also consider other circumstances: it is frequent that the author's goal to find the net, or that the conclusion is prepared in advance. Then tap that make it in the first or the fifth goal is a matter of chance. But these are things we must be reconciled with the true meaning of football: a game, a party, not a bloody war that arises every day urgent need for blood with every tiny detail.

I understand that Guardiola has wanted to apologize to the fans of Ray. Knowing we know these actions are not your style, or fit into the image that he wanted to implement in the Barça over four years. His face and Tito Vilanova occurred while they were a poem. So I understand you have used the press conference to extinguish any fire that might occur.

But go with what I consider really interesting about all this controversy: Carles Puyol, and gesture to cheer. Another example of what it means to be a great captain. Wisdom on the pitch berating a couple of beardless. I want to express a point of very personal view: I think Puyol, cutting the celebration with these thrusts so blunt, was not giving the message that everyone thinks of "do not do the fool, you are disrespecting the fans." In fact, if we take Alves himself an example, we know that their dances are not some aberration. Do you remember who made ​​it 1-2 with Abidal in the Santiago Bernabeu in this season? Puyol or no one appeared to separate them, Guardiola apologized at a press conference and was not armed devilish this controversy.

What I mean by that? Well, the real intention of Puyol, the message is really giving his teammates with that shaking is: "What are you doing? Is there anything to celebrate? In the week that we eliminated from the Champions League we lose our rival and saying goodbye to a man has placed us in the history of soccer, do you set about dancing stick a 0-5 with Rayo Vallecano? "And so I find really admirable gesture Puyol, because despite keep car titles and honors to his back, still has the humility and the knowledge to be an exemplary professional. It is the eternal master.