Withdrawal of Messi
We are used to Messi. We have become accustomed to the genius and virtuoso. Not only to his creativity but also the perfect interpretation, game after game, those creations. We have become accustomed, moreover, it virtually foolproof. Since some years now has taken form an association irrational: If Messi plays for Barcelona wins. Some people do not stop to think that the cycle that lived (and trying to stretch) the Barcelona is not normal or that the genius of Messi can be always, invariably, at the height of himself.
Top scorer, top assistant and chief representative of this spirit was in Barcelona, Messi has repeatedly made the wishes of his followers actually. Both people may have come to confuse them. So much seems to have developed even a physical and emotional dependence of Messi. The need for a dose of Messi is becoming more and more frequent.
Messi amazes us all their fans but they also generate euphoria, disinhibition, joy, security and confidence. Pleasurable sensations to which Barcelona is accustomed. When Messi is slightly different dose of his genius, the public and critics dawn restless, tense, anxious, hungry for victory, eager to score.
His game, fundamental for the inexhaustible supply of substance to style your computer, you are doing in Barcelona was becoming increasingly necessary, to the point that today it is difficult to say whether the slower pace of Barca in the league is because the group dropped a point in dragging Messi intensity or vice versa or a mixture of both.
Messi we got so used to the extraordinary that distorted our perception of the ordinary: if you do not check in three games is in crisis, if it fails a heads up is not the same and if your team does not win is because they went out and is no longer Gold. I'm not saying that is not true that, since starting this semester will be more irregular. Nor do I deny that his form it takes, some parties, a more human level. But with 21 assists and 38 goals so far this season gives the impression that descended to a valley that, apart from Cristiano Ronaldo, you can not climb without oxygen assistance.
Managing your rest is not easy for two simple reasons: one is that he wants to play forever. The other is that there is no one like him. Arguably unnecessary played some games and is starting to pay the consequences, but it's hard to say it was a mistake when, so far, the method Guardiola has given very good results. Messi is always and almost always appears dressed himself.
Concentrations, airplanes, advertising commitments and solidarity, the daily demand of the press and people, training, pressure to win and carry much weight on their backs, the accumulation of minutes, the physical and mental fatigue Competition in League, Cup and Champions League in friendly matches or the selection ... it all adds up to wear.
However, the big problem with Messi is Messi. The regularity with which his genius has fueled the football world is confronted every day to our expectation, that huge and insatiable beast that requires a company inhuman: each party running the race against his own shadow.