Lucas Haurie
17/04/2024
Regarding the professional footballer Borja Iglesias, any young reporter or opinion-maker could, can, and in fact does, utter many sports criticisms and even interweave them with his love of the spotlight, which are not exactly the best allies for performance in the elite. An irregular and even cyclothymic forward, he was not to blame for the money that Betis paid for his signing, of course not, but those 28 million (almost) in cash are a heavy backpack that he has to carry. However, not even the staunchest of his detractors will deny that the 52 goals scored in 181 official appearances With the green and white shirt they represent a notable brand.
Although interesting, this figure is not the most outstanding thing that Borja Iglesias has done at Betis, the main architect of the club’s greatest achievement since the first five years of the 21st century. In winning the Cup, the man from Compostela scored three of his team’s last four goals (two in the semifinals and the one in the final), including the excellent work of art that tied the first leg in Vallecas, when Rayo won and shook Pellegrini’s boys by the lapels. Such an incidence in one of the four (four, not forty) titles in Betis history enthrones him directly, without going through the starting box, as a Betis myth.
Even so, one understands that professional footballer Borja Iglesias and his creaking media overexposure (with a poorly concealed desire for business behind it) arouses criticism. To begin with, those of Mr. Manuel Pellegrini, who did not understand his resignation from the national team, a refusal to represent Spain “until things change” that he has not yet revoked, if I am not mistaken, so someone must ask the brand new Bundesliga champion if he would take a hypothetical call from Luis de la Fuente for the Euro Cup. Or maybe not, because it is not likely that his performance in Leverkusen has seduced the Riojan coach.
Having said all this, and clarifying in case it was necessary that the signatory is not the most enthusiastic supporter of the professional footballer Borja Iglesias, what is not at all acceptable is that the citizen Borja Iglesias Quintas has to endure the cataract of insults that are uttered to him in social networks, that sewer, a legion of calves who confuse the ass of ideology with the seasons of football. I will spare you, because it is not the forum nor do they pay me in this medium for it, the opinion that their aesthetic extravagances provoke in me (one is too fit to make fashion reviews…) and, above all, the laughter that their illiterate imposture causes in me among postmodern and woke. But, God help us, we are going to respect people minimally. Or that, at least, the Administration of Justice puts a stop to the violations.
