Mirandela is in Portugal, in the northeast, in an area without water or vegetation. A kind of desert, too far from Lisbon, far from Oporto.
We are in the early 90s and a very poor boy makes up her mind that in life wants to be a goalkeeper. It 's very strong, even though he's only ten years if the larger fight because it gives security. Para all punishment, shooting from outside and near, the outputs can not be beaten, his face also para. The rigors and then ... just can not take those perfect, except when they are slow when it is so, even perfection para.
Only at the end of the day was all red hands that hurt, unable to grasp even a glass of water. This is because it is very poor and the parents can not afford a pair of gloves. Luckily Mirandela is a desert, and do not need the wool gloves.
One evening his father comes home smiling, destroyed by the work but smiling. Pours him a glass of water and tells him: get ready, tomorrow we are going to buy gloves. His father is a good man because he hopes, knows that his son will one day be the caretaker of Sporting Benfica or maybe the port. I hope so, then you know.
So the day after he and his father went to buy gloves, go with the car is old and makes noise, but no matter. The day is beautiful, and are the only ones to walk in the desert. If he were not going to buy the gloves, would be the ideal day for a good game. Perfect, as all this perfection that God is giving.
But in reality they are not alone. There is also a truck and its driver, whom they believe to be just too, has stopped for a moment to watch the road. then swept him and his father, and destroyed the car. After the battle, a moment later, there was so much silence, the smell of petrol and blood on the hands of the small doors. The blood was his father, who died on the spot, but he barely alive, like an angled penalty and powerful, perfect. But half.
few years later the little goalie wearing glove and played in the youth of Sporting Braga. And yet years later, in 2010, becomes the goalkeeper Portugal during the World Cup in South Africa. makes a great world, huge parades, they want it all but he chooses Italy, Genoa , choose the shadow, because he knows that when all is well, when you think everything is perfect, then everything collapses. So you better hide.
In fact now there is no Sunday Eduardo dos Reis Carvalho does not make a "duck", an error and is now an opponent added. The Genoa would sell in January, but no longer want. Eduardo is in my opinion a great goalkeeper, but he does not realize that he is still alive, and that we are alive only when it's all right.
Yesterday Napoli lost as is normally lost, earning the defeat and not doing anything to avoid it. If yesterday Napoli had been a team of eleven goalkeepers, one could say that he lost due to eleven "ducks." But we survived, though we are still there, among the seven infinite meters of our second place, does not mean that things continue to go well and we expect the collapse.
It means that things will just continue. So now I
shade, wear gloves and sweat that we face the next truck in the desert.
Both goalies are well aware of our eleven, never be alone.
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