Andres Iniesta, the water dancer

Silent as a shadow. Light as a feather. Quick as a snake. Silky smooth summer. Quiet and calm waters. Swift as a deer. Slippery as an eel.

Teachings Syrio Forel to Arya Stark in Game of Thrones

Andres Iniesta is in a higher dimension, far above what we could define as "mortal players." At Fuentealbilla genius and can not be explained with three or four adjectives, no, no. Don Andrés forces us to dedicate an entire talk to at least make it justice approach. It increase its behalf in any bar in Spain and then mounts a roundtable about her figure, so surely what he did last night at the Luzhniki Olympic was talk of thousands of coffee this morning.

Fabregas gets the ball stuck to the sidelines and the height of the left corner of the penalty area, it is the first (and the referee) with the lash of Laudrup, puts down the second with a touch as simple as appropriate , to keep the ball out for bottom line, steps on doing a 180 º for not losing face to the field and back stepping to depart from the entrance at ground level of the same illusory; threatens to move inward and ends a dribble backwards to avoid that, without him, knows he returns to attack from behind, to finally get the ball played towards Alba.

It is a play that ends in a goal, or on the end of a Champions or World. Iniesta simply fulfills the mission of leaving a trap near the corner with the ball under control so your team can start over a new collective attack. But what a way to fulfill this mission ...!

The important thing is not what you do but how you do it. That what the mark of a true artist, capable of breaking the time to become immortal in people's memory. Perhaps Pablo Picasso was not the best painter, but no one painted like Picasso. The same could be said of Fred Aster in dancing, Lola Flores in flamenco or figure skater Yevgeny Pliúshchenko.'s Not the what, it's how!

If we seek a closer comparison is inevitable football that we come to mind Zinedine Zidane, arguably the most widely footballer Iniesta assimilated. If one begins to reel the game both in the background are also many differences, but the key is that we emphasize the first quality of both is the same: the elegance. So for Iniesta worth what I said about Zidane few years ago: It is so elegant that if playing naked we would not realize.

I, at this point, I declare myself incompetent to put words to what makes Iniesta. So in my search for an appointment that could do justice metaphors remembered the Syrio Forel teaches that water dance (the style of fencing from their homeland) Arya Stark, the young princess of Winterfell and irreducible, even risk that this choice seems appropriate only to those who have read Game of Thrones.

Finally, I recommend that you spare a few minutes to the tweets of Sport selection because, as I said earlier, a lot of people to talk about just a few seconds of Iniesta. And as icing, here are the gif of the play for whoever wants to save.

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