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Facing down a hallway

alessio liscithe very young and promising Granota coach, said yesterday that his Levante would do the corridor to Real Madrid, adding: “I think they fully deserve it and I don’t see any problem. It’s fair, we’re a noble club and it’s the right thing to do.” Thanks to Dani Blanco I realized that, strictly speaking, not only Levante should make the corridor to Madrid but, and until the end of the League, also Cádiz and Betis. In this last match we would find ourselves with the small technical problem that, facing the League and Cup champions, we would not know very well who should make the hallway first for whom, but in the rest it is clear. As lately we were used to the champion being decided on the last day, or at most on the penultimate, we took it for granted that the champion only had to make the corridor his next rival or, if he was proclaimed champion on the last day, his first rival of the following season, but no. If it is possible (which it is not) for a team to be proclaimed champion in the last game of the first round, the other nineteen participating teams would have to make the corridor for the entire second.

What was I going to. I was surprised by Lisci because he thought that Madrid was only morally obligated to make the corridor for Atlético de Madrid, but no, the Levante coach opened my eyes. Lisci said something even more interesting, he referred to the Raise like a noble club; since Levante was a noble club, it seemed to Lisci that there was no other possibility than to pay fair tribute to the champion. I run to the dictionary: “Noble, who acts in good faith, without any malice or double intention.” So that Levante, according to his coach, would make the corridor to Real Madrid because he acts in good faith, without malice and without double intention. There are three versions of Lisci’s reaction: one, the neutral one, would consist of the Italian coach not thinking of anything or anyone when he said that and that he did it out of pure sportsmanship; another, more evil, mine, would lead us to think that, by saying that, Lisci was thinking of who did not make the corridor to Real Madrid, that is, Atlético de Madrid; the third, the most Machiavellian in my opinion, was said yesterday by Dieter Brandau and I would assume that Lisci was seeking to appease Madrid with his words so that they would not make blood with Levante, who were risking their lives.

In any of the cases, whether Lisci thought of something or did not think of anything, he said yesterday that he would make the corridor for the champion because doing it was a matter of nobility. It was by chance that these days, almost immediately after the board of directors of the company Atlético de Madrid Sociedad Anónima Deportiva decided not to make the corridor to Real Madrid for what had been said in three gatherings and written in two opinion columns , the mattress club has presented MadCup 2022, a tournament for kids, selected by the Higher Sports Council, one, and I read literally, “end-of-season party, in which all the players will enjoy this experience, hand in hand with the Atlético de Madrid Academy”. And I read more: “During the celebration of the tournament, we will have different activities to promote culture, sports and values, with the celebration party at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium as the main point.” I understand, then, that MadCup 2022, which is organized by the company Atlético de Madrid Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, is a tournament aimed at promoting the values ​​of sport among the little ones, right? Is it so? And if the tournament is not won by Atlético de Madrid, what will they tell the boys? Will they make the corridor to the champion or will they not? Talking about the values ​​of sport four days after refusing to make the corridor to Madrid under the excuse that six pundits had been doing accounts for two weeks?

Of everything what Enrique Cerezo said to justify not making the corridor to Madrid, the funniest thing of all was that, with that gesture, he wanted to prevent the fans from facing each other. What showdown? The fans of Madrid and Atleti gave a world example in the two finals played. Not one incident, not one. And one of the two finals was lost by Atleti in the cruelest way possible. Not a bad gesture, not one. Now, and after this Atleti initiative, I have seen a confrontation between the two fans. Now yes, not before. If the Atlético de Madrid company wants its MadCup to be a success, if it wants to set an example, it should tell the boys that what they did on Sunday is wrong, that this is not done, that it is not gentlemanly or, using the same adjective that Lisci, noble. If the Atlético de Madrid company wants its MadCup to end well, it should invite, for example, the mattress maker Jose Luis Garcia to teach a master class among the kids. He, who is not in doubt, will also tell them that this is not done. Let it not be done again. Hopefully.

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