Around eight in the evening in New York, two and a half hours after the match ended, he appeared in the MetLife press room (a white, temporary tent, with the…
Spain is forever, damn it, because if you have to play football, you play football, and you win, and you win civilly. But if you have to go to war, you go, and you win…
Smile at every step, give thanks every time they ask about his leg, sore after the match against France, or about his son, who has been unwell these days but who…
On Saturday morning, in the lobby of a hotel next to Madison, an Argentine guy about 50 years old was talking on the phone: «How much does that tray cost me?», and…
On July 11, 2010, Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, Rodri (Madrid, 30 years old) was in the middle of a forest in Connecticut, not too far from where tomorrow he seeks to complete the…
El Javits Center is a giant convention center. It is in Hudson Yards, on the west side of Manhattan, right next to the river. FIFA has turned it into a kind of center of…
New York welcomed the Spanish team with some rain and a lot of heat, who after enjoying the night in Dallas celebrating, without fanfare, the sovereign dance to…
How to explain it. How to explain that Spain, so calm, so serene, brushing a speck of dust off the lapel of the jacket, whistling, almost with a toothpick in the mouth,…