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RAKUTEN TV PRESENTS
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When they say, "Where are you from?"
I say, "From where Iniesta's from."
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-He was always playing.
-He'd go behind that table with the ball.
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See how far he's come!
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Now he's in Japan somewhere?
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THE UNEXPECTED HERO
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ANDRÉS INIESTA, THE UNEXPECTED HERO
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We knew that after the stint at Barcelona
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we'd go somewhere else,
but frankly, Japan,
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I wasn't expecting.
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It's sad to leave
family and friends behind
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and being here has brought us together
even more
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as a couple and as a family.
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You get here and you're practically...
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ANDRÉS' WIFE
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...alone because you don't know anyone.
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That's brought us closer together
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as partners and as a family.
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My childhood was what it was.
It made me really happy.
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My childhood was football,
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my childhood was going to school
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in the morning
and training in the afternoon.
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The only thing I can say
I've missed all this time
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has been not having family close by.
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The rest of it doesn't matter.
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It's just the two of us here,
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with our tribe of four little ones,
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enjoying the peace,
and, well, getting to know new people
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and this new culture.
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She's always been important to me.
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We get along really well.
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I love spending nearly all my time
with her, sharing everything with her.
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We've built a wonderful family
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with the little ones,
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and it's been a gift
that our paths crossed.
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Thanks! A little gift!
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-Why did you make them?
-Thanks, a little gift!
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We're on the go all day like
any other family with a lot of children.
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The complexity
with four little rascals at home,
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well, sometimes you need
to get away from it a bit.
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Many words come to mind.
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But if... I think that
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one that sums him up really well,
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as a person and as a footballer,
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is "immense."
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-"Unique."
-"Class."
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-"Fantastic."
-"Balance."
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-"Exemplary."
-"Phenomenon."
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-"Special."
-"A legend."
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A word to sum up Andrés...
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"Andrés is Andrés."
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A wonderful person.
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-I'd say "wizard."
-He's a unique player, magical.
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-A genuine player.
-An "illusionist", right?
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"Team spirit."
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"God."
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In a word, I'd say "humanity."
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I like you as a football player,
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but also as a human being.
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-"Honesty."
-We're different.
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He's very white and I'm very black,
but we love each other to bits.
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-"Pure talent."
-"Magic."
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"Special."
I think Andrés is a special person,
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as a player and as a person, too.
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For me he was a dancer, the best dancer
with a football I've seen.
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Dancing round the pitch.
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It's such a pleasure to watch him play.
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It has the same effect as watching
somebody dance.
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With Andrés you get the feeling
he's dancing with the ball.
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Tap dance and modern dance.
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Dancing finely and dancing hard.
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He and the ball were like one
at all times.
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He seemed to ski as a player.
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The way he moved was very aesthetic,
and how he played with it and used it.
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He didn't touch it, he just followed it.
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That feeling is unique.
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Suddenly he'd slow down, and then do
that burst you weren't expecting.
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Then he'd slam the brakes on,
and that's what made
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it impossible to get the ball off him.
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He's the greatest talent
in Spanish football that I've ever seen.
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That time-space relationship,
when a player's expecting him to come
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and at just the right moment he dribbles
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where the opponent isn't covering...
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That's just wonderful, and he even waits
for you until the end.
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He waits for you and says,
"I'm going to get you", and then he does.
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Those are the players
who can make the difference
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and you say,
"Watch out or he'll do his jink."
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And he does it again.
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It's a bit like bullfighters,
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the way they wait till the bull's
getting really close,
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the opponent's getting really close,
and then take the decision.
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And very few have been able to do that.
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For me, his great trick
was not having two eyes, but four,
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two in front and two behind.
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He didn't need...
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He always knew who was behind,
but what side they'd come from.
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He'd get out of spaces and places
that were impossible.
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You can give him the ball
any way you want.
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He'll control it however he wants.
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It was incredible.
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Even Ronaldinho... the great Ronaldinho.
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Sometimes you'd give him the ball
and he'd fail.
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But Andrés, play him any ball,
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and the bugger will control it.
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I asked him, "Mate, how do you do it?"
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He seemed to be trapped and you'd say,
"Okay, he's lost it"
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and he'd get past you.
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When he takes on two players,
he's like rubber.
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He controls it, moves, two touches,
and bye-bye Andrés.
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It was easy for me having Andrés there,
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because I knew I could pass him any ball
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and he could move towards the goal
because he'd get it, you know?
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He's the player that best
understood me on the pitch
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and beyond that, as a person,
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I admire him hugely.
He's a very laid-back person.
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Just the opposite of me,
but I think we complement each other well.
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We share a special feeling
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where we can connect just with a look.
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We knew what we wanted from ourselves
and from the other,
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in this case, Andrés.
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You see the opposition sweating,
struggling, trying to get the ball...
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and he was always calm and you'd say,
"Look, stop! This isn't fair."
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It really seemed like you were seeing
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two players
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who weren't playing the same match.
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It seemed like he was playing
in a different match than the others.
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That's his specialty.
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He was decisive,
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and there's the ability he had to lose
his marker in tight spaces.
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I used to say he was like Harry Potter
with his magic wand.
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You can do whatever you want,
whenever you want.
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He did magic and different things.
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Maybe there will never be another Iniesta.
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And leg up.
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One, two, three, four...
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Hands down. Four.
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The brain is the centre
of everything, of course.
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And he has organised
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that brain-body relationship
in a special way
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to move in whatever way he wanted.
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He did unbelievably complex moves
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in a simple, graceful way,
and that conveys harmony.
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I don't think he should ever stop
playing sports
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because that's his way
of expressing himself.
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Being such a...
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let's say a reserved person,
or closed off,
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his way of expressing himself
is clearly football.
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Yeah, easy.
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Iniesta, easy.
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I often put that down to
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the hours and hours he played
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when training as a youngster
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on his famous village pitch.
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He was there all day playing
in the street,
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and for me that's fundamental
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for developing
that specific quality he has.
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Think about when you have to come get it.
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If you don't use it, we'll leave it here.
You want to sit here?
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We'll leave them here and get them later.
Pao will leave it here.
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-I want the ball.
-Will you leave it here?
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Try not to fall in the water, okay?
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I'll park this here like a bike. You know?
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Let's go.
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We'll remember to come back for it.
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Come on, Sienita, darling.
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For the scooter.
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Ready?
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I'm at a different stage of my life.
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Leaving Barcelona and coming here
has given me
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a lot of freedom in many ways.
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Just sitting on a bench
and watching people
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is something we've never been able to do,
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and going for a walk with your kids
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brings a lot of peace
you haven't had for many years.
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Nutmeg! Siena nutmegged you!
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We have eyes, don't we?
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Say sorry, at least?
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-Mummy!
-Do you want to take off your jacket?
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Daddy, you're playing too, okay? Daddy!
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Daddy!
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-I didn't take it. Don't be upset.
-Here.
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-It's not that one.
-Here.
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-Pretty bad, but I scored three or four.
-Daddy.
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-Daddy, you're playing, okay?
-Am I playing now?
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There!
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The ball almost hit you
in the face again, Siena.
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-Close. Do you want ice cream, Siena?
-Siena too.
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Chocolate or tutti-frutti?
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Chocolate, like Daddy.
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Look, Daddy's going to catch a fish.
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Look, Daddy's going to...
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-He hasn't caught anything.
-I have, look.
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Look!
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Hurray!
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Did you see that?
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Look, Siena.
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-Pretty big.
-Wow.
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Thanks.
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Look, what a fish!
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-Did you see it?
-Daddy!
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Did Mummy get a shark?
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No, sharks are very heavy.
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Wait there with mummy.
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Three, two, one.
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Stop there, there are cars passing.
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The summer we met,
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he went on tour with Barcelona to Japan,
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and when he got back, he said,
"I've brought you something.
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Can I see you so I can give it to you?"
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I met Anna
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on St. John's Eve in 2007.
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I'd arranged to go to Mataró
with Jordi Mesalles.
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We went and we had a drink on the beach.
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Then we went to the beach bar,
the place where the pubs are.
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She was working as a waitress.
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As soon as we went in he goes,
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"Have you seen the brunette at the bar?"
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I was bowled over as soon as I saw her.
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I say, "Well, Andrés,
we've just come in the door,
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I've not looked
around the place yet, basically."
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He was there a while,
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patiently waiting for his chance.
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You have to be pretty patient.
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The next day he says,
"I have to get that girl's number."
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He was a bit of a drag.
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Andrés is someone,
when he gets an idea in his head,
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he gets there in the end.
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After a while he says, "I've got it."
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I say, "I don't even want to know how."
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He called me every day
to bother me with it
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and I couldn't get rid of him.
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He had me an hour and a half on the phone
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wondering if he sent her a message
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if I thought she'd respond to it.
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He didn't know how to act.
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Andrés did lots of little things for Anna,
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and one day they got together,
kind of by surprise,
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when Andrés got back
from a tour in Asia with Barcelona.
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Here in Japan, at all the airports,
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the company or brand you see the most
is ANA.
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It reminded me of her a lot.
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We met at a petrol station near Mataró,
where I lived,
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and I remember
he was stuck in traffic for two hours.
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I was stuck on the bypass
for an hour or so,
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sending messages to say,
"Wait, I'm on my way."
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We spent a short time together
and I gave her the gift...
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He gave me a little gift,
an aeroplane called ANA.
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It was the kind of gift you give
when you're in love.
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When I got that gift and read the letter,
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I can say I fell in love at that moment.
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I said to my sister,
"Marta, I think I'm in love."
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I fell in love with her at first sight
and she fell in love gradually.
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The same night he met his wife,
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he met me a few hours before and I know
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that's a special moment for him.
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Careful.
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-Oh no, what a shot.
-Come here, you...
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-We'll tell your brother off.
-Put your trainers on, young man.
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-Naughty!
-Who's naughty?
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-Pao.
-Why? What did he do?
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Because Pao hit me with the ball, hard.
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Hard? But he didn't mean to.
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Poor thing.
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Did he say sorry?
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-No?
-No.
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Oh dear. Have you said sorry
to your sister?
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For the rocket shot.
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Sorry.
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See what he said? "Sorry."
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Oh, a back rub!
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-What'd he do to you?
-A back rub.
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-Did you get a back rub?
-Yes.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT
APRIL 9, 2018
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I remember we were playing Ludo
with some friends
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and he sent me a message saying
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I should go to his room,
he had to talk to me.
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He wrote to me, too, saying,
"Can you come to my room a minute?"
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You put yourself in his shoes
and you think,
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"Gosh, what must he be thinking
and feeling right now?"
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He comes to Leo and me
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to tell us his decision.
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Andrés was waiting in his room
and he made us sit down
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and told us he'd decided to leave.
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This press conference
is to announce publicly...
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my decision...
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that this will be my last season.
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I never thought he'd leave Barcelona
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and it's something I always said to him
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and he's thrown back at me, saying,
"You didn't trust me,
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you said I'd always stay, didn't you?"
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Complicated.
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To my teammates and all those
I've been with on a daily basis
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over all these years, this season,
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they're the ones who've made me
get better each day.
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It's not that you can't imagine
Barça without Andrés.
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I can't imagine daily life
without my friend.
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We started missing Andrés
from that moment,
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but we still had a few weeks left
with him.
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Of course, they become even more special.
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The fact that the year before Xavi left,
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and this year, Andrés,
and little by little, everyone,
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and there were fewer and fewer of us left
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from this wonderful and important period
for us and for the club,
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and seeing that
the time was approaching for all of us...
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I couldn't stay at a place where I felt
I couldn't give everything I had to give.
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The people in the club
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never imagined I could decide to leave.
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It's like everything,
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in relationships, if you don't discuss
things at the right time
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there comes a time
when there's no way back.
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It's very simple.
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His wish, above all,
is to leave well at a time
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when he's an active member
of the first team,
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contributing to the game, and when thinks,
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"I'm leaving with my head held high,
when the team's winning."
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Since he's strict with himself,
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and always wants to give 100%,
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he was gradually noticing
he couldn't give 100%. That was it.
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I think it was for the best.
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It's the last big day,
the last title, let's say,
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-for Andrés Iniesta.
-A piece of the soul
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of Barça is leaving,
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part of the shield, part of its history.
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This is a Barcelona legend.
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Andrés' last big game with Barcelona
had to be a good one.
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He could make it his game,
like he imagined it.
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I don't think he could have done better.
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Suárez to Iniesta, in the defensive zone,
looks to shoot, one-two with Messi,
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Messi in the zone, finds Iniesta...
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Unmarked, the captain sees his chance,
shoots and it's there!
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Iniesta! Iniesta! Iniesta!
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We can join in the Barcelona fans' song,
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which is the song of all football fans,
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about the universal Manchegan.
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It still gives me goose pimples
to hear it.
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I felt like I was flying,
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gliding round the pitch,
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that it all went my way from the whistle.
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A grand finale.
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Even now, when I play
that farewell moment,
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when I get subbed off,
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I'd be lying
if I said I haven't shed a few tears
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over that moment,
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with the whole crowd
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singing your name,
with all the Sevilla fans
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mostly standing up and clapping.
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This is not the sound of the Wanda,
it's the sound of the world of football.
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Winning that title, winning La Liga...
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I think that's a priceless way
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to leave the club
where you've spent your life.
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He decides to leave Barça in his own way.
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00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,040
First he leaves Barcelona
and then we'll see where next.
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00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:40,440
When he leaves, Andrés' wish
is to not play against Barça.
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00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,600
That suggests a move far away.
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00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,960
So, "Andrés, this decision means
you're leaving Europe, right?"
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00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,920
Hence not the big leagues,
or the well-known leagues
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and that means
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either the USA or Asia.
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00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,840
In fact, it looked like China,
until Mikitani appeared.
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00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:07,360
Mikitani San is the founder
and chairman of Rakuten,
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00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,320
which is the main sponsor of Barcelona FC
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00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,560
and is the owner of Vissel Kobe.
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00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,520
And he's a sports lover in general
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and a fan of Andrés as well,
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00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:22,920
and I think he sees in Andrés
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a driving force
for future sports projects.
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00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,080
Mickey was one of few people
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00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,160
who could have convinced him
to go to Japan.
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He went to his house, explained
and sold him the project,
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00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,560
which wasn't just playing football,
but him as a brand...
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00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,840
We needed to have a meeting
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with Andrés as soon as possible.
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So I said,
"I'm going to Barcelona tomorrow."
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So I flew over.
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And then the next day
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00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:59,000
I had a very good meeting
with Andrés and his team.
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00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,120
A colleague at work
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00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,360
prepared a video to really describe
what Andrés was all about.
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00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,480
I think it impacted him and excited him.
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00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,960
It was one of the decisive factors.
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00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:16,920
What he wants, what he sees going forward,
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00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,880
is to grow the club and raise its level,
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00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,480
and all the goals he might have...
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00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:30,000
For me it would be a dream,
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00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,000
it would be ideal to be part
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00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,600
of such an exciting project
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00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,640
together with him and grow the club.
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00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,280
They instilled in me
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so many positive things and such a desire
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00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:50,520
to be part of the project
that in the end I was convinced.
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00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,280
His thinking is very different
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00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,240
from the way Japanese culture is,
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00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,200
and how Japanese players think.
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00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,680
And so this is very important,
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00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,960
and Andrés is going to be...
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00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,480
you know, keeping making an impact.
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00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,640
Not only for JD,
but the entire football community.
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00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,480
Or maybe society in general in Japan.
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00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,000
This step I'm taking now
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00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,880
is as big a step as I took
from Albacete to Barcelona.
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00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,080
-Cheers!
-Cheers!
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00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:26,520
Congratulations.
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00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,960
-Congratulations.
-Thank you.
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00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:48,280
We spent weeks at the hospital
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00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,160
trying everything we could
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00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,320
so that things would turn out well,
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00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,960
but in the end, after seven months,
we lost him.
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00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,400
No-one is ready for something like that.
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00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,080
When he was bad, I was beside him.
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00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,920
When I was worse, he was beside me.
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00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,280
I will always remember the image
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00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,480
of the moment in which, as a parent,
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00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,200
one of the parents has to announce
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00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,000
that the child you're expecting
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00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320
well has died.
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00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:28,760
And she bore the brunt of it,
of the whole process,
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00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,440
and all the tense hours we went through.
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00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,440
In those tough times we had to endure,
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00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,760
Andrés, despite being with me
and talking a lot,
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decided to write me
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00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,600
that lovely, emotional letter
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00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,400
which I try to remember every day.
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00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,000
We live in the same block,
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00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,920
we see each other daily,
especially the kids.
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00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,120
The kids see each other
every day at school,
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00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,440
they get together at Andrés' house,
sometimes my house,
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00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,720
above all Valeria and Olaya
and Paolo Andrea and Luca,
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00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,000
since they have a lot in common
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00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,760
because of their age,
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00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,880
and they're together almost every day.
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00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,920
My kids are having a childhood
quite unlike before.
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00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,600
It's a childhood way beyond
the one I had in my village, right?
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00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,520
I didn't need my Dad
to go outside and play.
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00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,320
My son won't grow up the way I did.
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00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,600
Distances aside, I'll try to ensure
that the important things
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that were instilled in me,
passed on to me,
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00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,400
I shall try to instill in them.
438
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,280
Goal by Iniesta!
439
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:09,000
SECOND LEG - CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMIFINALS
MAY 5, 2009
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Barcelona arrived
at Stamford Bridge worried.
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00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:15,600
Worried after a 0-0 draw at the Camp Nou.
442
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,440
It was a very rough match.
443
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,280
That match was tough.
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00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:21,480
Very tough, very physical.
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00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,760
Bad, bad. It started badly.
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00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,800
We didn't get a shot on goal
in 90 minutes.
447
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,440
Blimey.
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00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,840
Destiny took us to the final.
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00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,920
Essien scored a belter with his left,
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00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,920
which kind of summed up the game.
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00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,120
My feeling in the last 20 minutes was,
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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,400
"They're going to go two up."
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00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,520
The feeling really was
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00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,120
"They're going to get a second",
two or three,
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00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,560
plus a penalty or two the ref
could have given, let's be honest.
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00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,920
Above all, the feeling.
We were a man down.
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00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,520
It upset me,
but surely more so my teammates,
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00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,280
who had to play
this tough game with ten men.
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00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,000
The feeling is the game's ending,
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00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,440
there's not much time left,
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00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,840
and it pushes you,
and your body pushes you to go for it.
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00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,920
I was booked.
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00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,200
I remember being in the stand
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00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,080
with Manel Estiarte and feeling dreadful,
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00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,120
like most Barcelona fans.
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00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,480
But with the confidence
that we'd get a chance
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00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,520
and that we'd score,
because I kept saying to Manel,
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00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,800
"We'll get a chance and we must take it."
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00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,200
I don't know if it was the 92nd minute,
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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,520
but that's when Iniesta came up
with a blinder.
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00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,440
The cross from Dani Alves.
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00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,040
It was the only shot on goal we took.
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00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,120
Eto'o controls it.
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00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,400
Then I think, "I'm in control,
I'll play off Andrés and shoot."
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00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,960
I wanted to have control,
but when I lost the ball...
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00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,520
Essien lost it, the ball runs to Messi.
477
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,520
The ball comes to me
and I'm about to lose it, practically...
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00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,680
Of course, he looks for the shot,
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00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,160
but he gets closed down,
closing the space.
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-Falling over...
-The ball comes to me sideways.
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00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:15,680
You realise it's the last shot.
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00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,960
It's very hard when the ball comes
to you with opposite spin.
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00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,760
It's part of the Iniesta arsenal.
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00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,080
At the right moment,
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00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,640
he pulls off moves no-one was expecting,
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00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,160
but that were totally game-changing.
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00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,520
Eto'o traps the ball,
Essien goes for it and misses,
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00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:34,800
Messi sends it to Iniesta.
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00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,720
Iniesta shoots... Goal!
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00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,240
He pulls off a wonderful goal
that slips through by this much.
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00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Andrés saved us all.
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00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,400
The thing with karma is it always leaves
the good things to the good guys.
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00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,400
Andrés pulled off that shot
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00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,480
and it was a turning point for all of us.
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00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,960
Just at the right time,
Andrés Iniesta shone.
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00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,920
It was very quick.
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00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,040
I was upset that Pinto got past me.
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00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,880
I know we all ran to the corner,
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00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,480
and we hugged,
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00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,640
the whole team
fell in a pile in the corner
501
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,640
celebrating with the fans, with Andrés.
502
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,760
I spent a week watching all that.
503
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,840
Gives it away to Messi, Messi to Iniesta,
Iniesta shoots... goal!
504
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,480
It's bloody magic!
505
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,880
Goal for Barça! Iniesta scores!
506
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,400
That goal made Andrés the player he was,
507
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,200
that everyone could see
for the talent he had
508
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,920
and what he did on the pitch.
509
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,520
I am sure that Petr Čech
will never forget that.
510
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,120
Iniesta shot, I dived,
511
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,240
but my hand missed the ball by 18 mm.
512
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,320
When I saw the ball go to him
513
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,040
I thought he was going to control it.
514
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,280
And when I saw the shot
515
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,360
I knew straight away
it was going to be hard to stop.
516
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,280
And when I saw the trajectory of the ball,
517
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,920
I knew it was well-struck, very hard,
518
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,920
and at the time I thought
519
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,880
it would hit the bar and go high,
but it went in.
520
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,160
Now, whenever there's a match
between Barcelona and Chelsea,
521
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,800
they always show that goal
on TV as a reminder.
522
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,400
So I only watched it two or three times,
523
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:48,680
and every time I see it I'm sad,
just like I was in 2009.
524
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,960
Well, the study began
in a hospital corridor.
525
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,360
A colleague came to me saying,
526
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,640
"My son is asking
if what this sticker says is true."
527
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,240
He showed me and the sticker said:
528
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,840
"Nine months after Barça's glorious May,
529
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,680
the birth rate in Barcelona jumped by 50%.
530
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:15,600
According to Guardiola,
531
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,240
it's because of Iniesta's goal
against Chelsea."
532
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,640
So, we looked at births.
11,000 births over five years.
533
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,960
We noticed it was stable,
534
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,040
except for the month of February 2010,
535
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,400
nine months after the "May of Cups",
536
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,440
which featured a 16% increase in births.
537
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,440
I'm glad I could contribute
to such important work.
538
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:01,200
I encouraged him a lot.
I wanted him to be a footballer.
539
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,840
Not to get as far as he has,
but to play, that was my hope.
540
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,720
Back then, the village didn't have
a football team.
541
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,680
He could only play in the school yard.
542
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:19,480
The school pitch was concrete
with indoor goal posts, without nets.
543
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,080
I'd spend six hours playing there,
544
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,320
till nightfall when they came to get me.
545
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,160
You'd have to call him to come and eat.
546
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,560
He'd eat, and be back at school,
back on the pitch.
547
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:36,400
We spent the whole day
doing what we wanted.
548
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,840
I'd spend all day with the ball.
549
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,600
When he was five or six,
550
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,600
he was already
at the level of a 12 or 14-year-old.
551
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,840
I looked into taking him to Albacete
because clearly Andrés
552
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:04,560
was up to the level
of his age group, at least in Albacete.
553
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,320
He came for trials.
554
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,800
He scored two goals,
made two or three other goals,
555
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,360
stole the ball three or four times.
556
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,560
I was surprised by what he did
and how small he was.
557
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,040
I'd collect him at midday.
558
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:30,320
We managed to get the P.E. class
at school moved to the end of the day,
559
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,840
so he didn't do P.E., and we were in time
560
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,960
for him to train at Albacete
with his pals.
561
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,240
He would make me look bad,
because I'd say,
562
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,080
"let's dribble, cut back,
563
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,800
and let's aim for the closest top corner."
564
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,480
So if we did five shots with the right,
565
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,520
he would put them in,
very close to the corner,
566
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,720
but then he'd do the same with his left.
567
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,680
And I'd say,
"Andresito, I told you, it's really hard."
568
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,880
"Okay, I'll bear it in mind."
569
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,440
Training ended at 2:30.
570
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,240
Back at home,
571
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:12,480
I'd eat a chorizo sandwich
or a tortilla sandwich,
572
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,600
whatever, with my juice.
573
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,520
I often said, "You should come over
574
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,280
to do that in the village."
575
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,320
But no, over there was the ideal thing.
576
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,280
I don't know what they call this.
577
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,440
Some say a "museum", others a "sanctuary."
578
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,680
It was very hard for me,
579
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:56,200
since I had a huge pile of newspapers
I didn't know what to do with.
580
00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:58,960
It seemed like a shame to get rid of them.
581
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,080
And one day I came out and saw a bag.
582
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,080
I took the bag and brought it inside
583
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,240
and tried it with one of the papers,
584
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,760
the Deportivo or the Sport,
and it just fit.
585
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,240
And that gave me an idea,
and that's how it started,
586
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,400
with a bag I found outside my house.
587
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,200
The bar is still open
588
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,520
and my mother was there working.
589
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,520
When I wasn't in trouble,
we played matches
590
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:40,040
with the tables and the chairs
and invented games there.
591
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,560
The football pitch clearly
wasn't enough for him,
592
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,800
and he kept playing among the tables.
593
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,080
The tournament that changed my life
was the Brunete tournament,
594
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,160
and that was
the springboard for what followed.
595
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:57,720
He won the best young player award
in Spain at the championship,
596
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,280
and I grabbed him in the dressing room
597
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,560
and said, "Let's take a picture, Andrés,
598
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,520
our paths are going to separate.
599
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,120
I think you'll do great things."
600
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,640
All the big clubs,
Barça, Madrid, Atlético,
601
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,280
turn around and say,
"Where'd he come from?"
602
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,880
When I saw him play, he really stood out.
603
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,160
So, seeing the amount of clubs there,
604
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:25,240
I sent Mr. Zaragoza,
one of our representatives,
605
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,760
to speak to the father
606
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,240
so that the father would get in touch
with me and bring him to Barcelona.
607
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,680
I said I'd talk to him,
but we'd do whatever he decided.
608
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,680
Andrés replied that he wasn't sure
609
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,680
and he wanted
to stay at Albacete that year.
610
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,720
He was also listening to his father.
611
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,240
I don't know.
It's what your parents tell you,
612
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,760
that the train only comes by
once in a lifetime.
613
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,360
The train, that famous train.
614
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:59,280
Every day he'd feed me
a bit more encouragement.
615
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,760
And from one day to the next, he changed.
616
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,760
He said, "I want to go
because it's what you want,
617
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,560
and I can't just let you down.
618
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,520
I want to stay here,
619
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,840
but I can see
how much you've fought for me
620
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:20,200
and now I don't think I can shrug off
621
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,960
what you've struggled hard for."
622
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,720
All that sacrifice I paid back.
623
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,240
Leaving at 12 years of age,
624
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,920
to go through difficult times.
625
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,520
Never stopping. Always moving forwards.
626
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:45,520
Holding the line, always trying
to overcome obstacles.
627
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:52,560
Many circumstances
which I paid for years later.
628
00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:01,240
There's a kid who travels 500 km
to come and train.
629
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,040
A lot of kilometres.
630
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:08,840
And a father's sacrifice
that maybe we would make.
631
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,520
The sacrifices of fathers.
632
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:15,280
Quite a thing.
You used to travel kilometres, too.
633
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,640
And you went
to the Masía academy, besides.
634
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,640
Well, I didn't go 500 km to go training.
635
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:25,560
It was about 40 to Albacete.
636
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,960
No, the kid does it with huge enthusiasm.
637
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,600
I can't imagine it
because I always lived with my parents.
638
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,800
My dad would take me training with him,
639
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,440
but I never lived apart
from them for training.
640
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,160
But it must be hard
641
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,200
and at the same time a good experience,
642
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:51,040
to prepare you for life,
not just for football.
643
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:56,680
The most traumatic part, let's say,
644
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,640
is to be separated from your family
when you're young,
645
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,160
and in the end you're "alone."
646
00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:10,440
You have to keep going forward
647
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,040
and maturing at a kind of forced march.
648
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,720
These are things you achieve with time.
649
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:24,640
-Dad, we're going to the changing room.
-Yes, but quickly, okay?
650
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:27,760
You're about to start.
651
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,320
Now they treat you better,
but when Andrés and I played...
652
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,120
-Yeah?
-...and were naughty,
653
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,160
do you know what they did to us?
654
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:36,760
They took the ball and made us run.
655
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,680
We had to run around the field.
656
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,760
Oh no! Why were you naughty?
657
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:46,960
Just like you sometimes.
But we were only naughty once.
658
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,240
After they made us run,
we weren't naughty.
659
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,840
I think you're the last ones today.
660
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,120
-We'll cheer for you.
-It doesn't matter.
661
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,760
This methodology is a way to understand
662
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,280
or interpret football
from when you're a child
663
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,560
until you pass through certain stages.
664
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,680
Of course, we'd both like our kids
665
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,880
to be footballers one day,
666
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,760
to at least have a shot at it
and enjoy giving it a go.
667
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,440
We look at our kids with affection,
668
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,640
sort of a reflection
of what we were years ago
669
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,160
with our parents, too.
670
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:31,280
I was very happy in the times
I spent alone with my father.
671
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,720
I try to do the same for Luca.
672
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,040
Which is the 500 km kid?
673
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,280
I don't know if he's at this session.
674
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,240
What time does it finish, at seven?
675
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,680
500 km will take four hours by car.
676
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,240
He'll get home late.
677
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,840
The return trip must be a killer.
678
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,120
Plus, they must bring the family.
679
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,200
And the next day you've got school.
680
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,960
I think the kid must eat his dinner
and sleep in the car.
681
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,000
Iniesta always says that playing
for Barça was his dream come true,
682
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,560
but very seldom does he admit
683
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,440
that that dream started very badly.
684
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,320
It started as a real nightmare.
685
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,520
THE LONGEST NIGHT
SEPTEMBER 17, 1996
686
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,680
Iniesta comes from Fuentealbilla,
from this village,
687
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:37,400
from his house, he comes from...
688
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,160
Well, he lived within those 100 metres.
689
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:43,040
He didn't need more.
That was his world, his universe.
690
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,040
And they take you to Barcelona,
691
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,600
where you spend your time
playing football.
692
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,840
He was literally alone at La Masía.
693
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:52,880
We got to La Masía.
694
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,680
We thought
he wouldn't stay there that night.
695
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,960
We thought another day.
696
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,560
But no, Juan Faré told us
he was at La Masía,
697
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,360
he had to stay there that night.
698
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,000
And so he stayed.
699
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,440
The rest of us went to the hotel.
700
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,320
That's how it started.
701
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,040
That was tremendous.
702
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,160
When I locked myself into that room,
703
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:25,400
after leaving Andrés at La Masía,
704
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,520
I said, "Oh dear, this is impossible.
I can't live here."
705
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,840
I fell to the floor like a 10-year-old.
706
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,120
I couldn't breathe.
I couldn't do anything.
707
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,760
Everything was lost.
708
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:46,840
My father, at the moment of truth,
had the heart.
709
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:52,040
His father said he was going back
to get him,
710
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:58,080
because he was going to die,
he couldn't be without him.
711
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,880
If that day they'd said "go back",
712
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,480
I probably would have.
713
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,200
It was thanks to my mother,
714
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,040
because my father is weaker
715
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,360
than my brother and my mother.
716
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,840
So, if it hadn't been for her,
717
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,160
I don't think my brother
718
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,200
would have made it at Barcelona.
719
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,480
I don't want to say what she said
because, truth be told,
720
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,240
she was right about it all.
721
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,160
I said, "Give him a chance.
You've brought him
722
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:32,680
and now you're going to drag him away.
What have we done?
723
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,640
We don't know if he can make it or not.
724
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:39,400
Give him a chance, and if it's no good,
725
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,640
we'll bring him back."
726
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:48,160
If not for her, I don't know
what would have happened to me.
727
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:50,320
The first weeks were very tough for him.
728
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,280
He missed his family a lot,
729
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,680
the people from his village,
and he hated it.
730
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:02,960
The experience at La Masía started out
very tough for Iniesta, very tough,
731
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,640
but after a while,
732
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,840
he got into it, into the swing of it,
733
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,440
basically because he was playing football.
734
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,760
We know he wept, but he wept silently.
735
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,960
Hardly anyone saw the anguish
he went through
736
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,880
to be able to become
737
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,040
not just what he wanted to be,
a footballer,
738
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,480
but also to live up
to his family's expectations.
739
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,680
I think they brought him up
with a large dose of added tension,
740
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,240
and his way of rebelling
was to express himself with the ball.
741
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,440
That's why he's a different player,
742
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,040
because he does
unconventional things with the ball.
743
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:40,440
We started to train and we finished,
as always, with a match.
744
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:43,880
And seeing how he came on, I thought,
745
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,800
"Well, I don't need
an instruction booklet,
746
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,320
he does it on his own."
747
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:54,920
He exemplified what La Masía
was about more than anyone,
748
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,280
the fact that people came
749
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,920
from outside Barcelona
or Catalonia and tried it.
750
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,120
And they don't just come out players,
but they come out as people,
751
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,560
and I think Andrés has all that.
752
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,680
If one day someone decides
753
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,680
to change the name
of La Masía or add something,
754
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,000
they have to put
"Andrés Iniesta" in big letters.
755
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:24,520
From the first day, the first game,
word gets around to the trainers.
756
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,720
He's different. Iniesta is something new.
757
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,320
When we were on Barcelona's first team,
758
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,800
dipping in and out of the reserves,
at that time,
759
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,640
I don't know, it was very close,
760
00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:37,320
with people in common that we knew,
and we always asked:
761
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,400
Who's coming up, which kid is good,
762
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,800
which winger or central player
is up and coming on the pitch?
763
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,520
One day he goes, "Who's taken my place?"
764
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,680
And I say, "Look, there's
a certain Xavi behind you,
765
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,920
who's really good, but behind him
there's another one,
766
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,240
who I think is even better than Xavi,
called Iniesta."
767
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,040
I remember calling Santiago Segurola
768
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,000
and saying "I've just seen someone
who's good,
769
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:02,920
I mean really good,
and he's going to make it."
770
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,440
I think all he said was,
771
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,840
"I've seen a player
who's better than we are."
772
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,760
And I said, "Better than whom?"
773
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,680
"Better than everyone we've seen
774
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,080
in midfield at Barça,
better than Xavi, better than me."
775
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,960
I was stunned and I said,
"Who are you talking about?"
776
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:24,400
And he said, "His name's Iniesta."
777
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,640
He says, "Look, you're taking my place",
778
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:32,240
and then added,
"but this kid's taking your place."
779
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,600
Luckily, I was right
in the first instance, but not the second.
780
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,680
And they played together for years.
781
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:42,000
The "guv'nor", Guardiola,
was like an idol.
782
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:46,600
I had huge regard for him.
783
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:51,920
Barcelona, in 1999, plays host
to the Nike Cup.
784
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,960
They organise the Nike Cup
and participate as guests
785
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:01,000
in the tournament for the best
young players in the world.
786
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,640
And they hold it at the Camp Nou.
787
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,880
It's the first time that Andrés Iniesta
discovers the Camp Nou.
788
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,880
THE FIRST TIME
NIKE CUP - JULY 22, 1999
789
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,320
It was a big event,
and honestly really nice,
790
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,520
because there were big clubs
from all over the world,
791
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,240
and it was exciting.
792
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,600
I think we had a really great team.
793
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,640
A foretaste of what Andrés
was going to be,
794
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:25,240
making a difference,
and I think it was in extra time,
795
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,120
in the last minute, they pass it back
796
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,120
and he slams it away in the top corner.
797
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,800
I think it was the golden goal.
798
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,960
It was the golden goal and they celebrate.
799
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,000
And Pep presented the trophy.
800
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:43,200
And just when Pep Guardiola's presenting
the trophy to Andrés Iniesta,
801
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,840
he says something truly prophetic.
802
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,440
-That in a few years...
-...I'm going to retire.
803
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,600
He'd be sitting in the stands...
804
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,920
...and I'd be watching him
play for Barcelona.
805
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,680
But the most impactful thing was...
806
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,120
I was his coach.
807
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:17,600
Since I was 12 all I wanted
was to make it with Barça.
808
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,920
There was a kid from the juniors
outside the Camp Nou.
809
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,920
In those days we trained at the ground
810
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,160
next to the Camp Nou and I was driving by.
811
00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:32,200
Someone said, "Hey, there's one
of the juniors, give him a lift."
812
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:33,160
"Sure."
813
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,640
I was lucky. I gave a lift
814
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:40,720
to one of the greatest players
of all time in my car.
815
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,720
For me, as a coach,
816
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:47,120
I saw that he could play
on the first team.
817
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,040
That is why I gave him a chance.
818
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,960
I let him make his debut
in the Champions League
819
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,280
because I had a lot of confidence in him.
820
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,800
THE BEST BARÇA IN HISTORY
2008-2012
821
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,680
We lost the first game with Numancia, 1-0,
822
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,920
and in the next we drew with Racing.
823
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,440
If we didn't win the next game,
824
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,760
that would have looked pretty grim.
825
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,960
We started with 86% or 87%
826
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,120
not wanting us as coaches at that time,
827
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,240
and that was a tough start.
828
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,920
I remember I knocked on his door and...
829
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,960
...he came in and said everything
would be great.
830
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,720
That it would all go well,
we were starting well,
831
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,920
we were playing well
and it would work out.
832
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,600
The team was able and willing...
833
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,120
And I left.
834
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,760
I don't know if he said something,
or thanked me or not,
835
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:53,520
but anyway, I wanted to let him know
836
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,240
we were all confident it would go well.
837
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,520
Normally, it's the coaches
who say these things to the players.
838
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,480
That's the routine,
the one higher up the hierarchy
839
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,200
has to tell the players
how it's going to be,
840
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,920
not the player, and in this case, Andrés.
841
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,440
It was a surprise, and a moment to say,
842
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:18,320
"Okay, if these guys are like this,
it can't go badly, we won't abandon you."
843
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:23,280
Such a good, positive atmosphere developed
844
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,760
that it just had to go well.
845
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,520
We won the next one 1-6,
I think against Gijón.
846
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,440
And we were unstoppable.
847
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,760
It was like we were playing
on the PlayStation.
848
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,640
It was spectacular. The high point
of our careers, of our lives.
849
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:48,720
We weren't a team, we were a family.
850
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,320
We were all for one and one for all.
851
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,600
That kept us going so many years.
852
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,520
Joy, a joy in my heart...
853
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,440
I'm at a different stage in life.
854
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,640
Leaving Barcelona and coming here, well,
855
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:36,480
in many ways, it's given me
a lot of freedom.
856
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:43,840
Playing for Barça is not just
playing a football match,
857
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,520
it's massive pressure, constant tension.
858
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,000
It's training perfectly every day,
859
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,960
it's being the best in every match,
860
00:53:53,040 --> 00:54:00,000
and that's very stressful
and mentally very exhausting.
861
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,200
Joy, a joy in my heart...
862
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:12,880
I enjoyed it at Barcelona,
but there was something here
863
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,200
that didn't let you enjoy it 100%.
864
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,240
So this something here,
which represented being at Barça
865
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,200
and the institution it is,
866
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,920
and what that means,
867
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,680
that doesn't exist here.
868
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:33,760
So that missing part
frees you from a lot of other things.
869
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,920
I've really noticed that here.
870
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,320
That might be the biggest difference.
871
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,560
The stadium is close by here,
872
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,240
as well as the Fan Club,
873
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,880
so this is a big boost for the area.
874
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,920
And since I love football,
875
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:28,800
we always go to watch the matches.
876
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,000
I'm in Japan now and I feel like I belong
877
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,600
because the people are wonderful to me,
878
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:39,240
because I'm loving it,
and that's how I feel.
879
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,440
Super happy, really...
880
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,560
If he could only see.
881
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:52,080
I'd die of excitement.
882
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,520
In the end, it's not where you were born,
883
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,640
it's where you feel right
and how they treat you
884
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:01,120
that makes you feel at home.
885
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,760
2009 is the Stamford Bridge goal,
886
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:07,640
it's the Rome final and Iniesta
began a journey into darkness.
887
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:10,680
INIESTA'S INJURY, A BIG BLOW
888
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:15,680
It was a complicated year, a hard year
889
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:20,400
after Stamford Bridge.
890
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,160
INIESTA RELIVES HIS NIGHTMARE
891
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,120
BARÇA CRIES FOR INIESTA
892
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,800
The days pass and you realise
893
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:35,280
you're not improving, you don't feel good,
894
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,000
you're not on form.
895
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:45,080
Everything clouds over or goes dark.
896
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:52,440
Then I start to train,
but I don't feel good.
897
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,160
The injury isn't improving.
898
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,320
With the therapy of his teammates,
899
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:02,160
and physiotherapists,
and other kinds of help,
900
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,560
because he's a very special body and soul.
901
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:09,960
There are many clouds ahead, many demons,
902
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:11,480
and they have to be overcome.
903
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:15,040
We were shocked at the news
of his death before ten last night.
904
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,680
Jarque was alone in his room,
talking to his girlfriend
905
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,800
when he lost consciousness.
906
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,200
His girlfriend informed his teammates.
907
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:30,760
That was like a bodily wound.
908
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:36,360
Something powerful
that knocked me down again,
909
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,120
and I was pretty low,
910
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,080
clearly because I wasn't very well.
911
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:44,720
It was the start of summer
912
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,760
and we went with Ceci
for a few days by the seaside.
913
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:50,080
We went out to eat,
914
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,840
and when we sat down at the table,
I looked at him,
915
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,440
and he just looked gone.
916
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:55,880
It wasn't him.
917
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,280
We ordered, and I looked
and I could see he wasn't there.
918
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,440
I noticed Anna looking at him, too.
919
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,040
And she says, "Are you okay, love?"
920
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:07,880
He wasn't well.
921
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,760
"Maybe it's my stomach,
or I'm just tired."
922
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,520
I remember going on holiday
with my partner and Anna
923
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,640
and seeing it wasn't my brother.
924
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:24,080
It was someone else,
not wanting to go out, not feeling well.
925
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,800
He was concerned
926
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,960
that we were have a good time,
but he was having a bad time.
927
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:35,400
And then you stop
and realise something's the matter.
928
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:40,080
His mother realised he wasn't well.
929
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,680
She said, "I don't know, he seems odd.
He's not eating. He just wants to sleep."
930
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:50,960
I noticed he wasn't well the night
931
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,200
we were sleeping downstairs,
932
00:59:54,280 --> 01:00:00,360
and he came down and said
"Mum, can I sleep here with you?"
933
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,600
Then the world came down on my head.
934
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:11,080
Your 25-year-old son
coming down at midnight,
935
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,760
wanting to sleep with his parents,
he can't be well.
936
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,560
And he said, "I'm not well, Dad."
937
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,640
I said, "What's wrong?"
938
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:23,160
"I don't know, I don't feel well."
939
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,800
I get a call from José Antonio.
940
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:30,080
I thought it was for Andrés
and José Antonio said,
941
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,200
"Is Andrés nearby?"
I say, "No, he's training."
942
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,200
"Don't tell him I called,
I want to speak to you
943
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,440
because I know Andrés trusts you.
944
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,720
With everything that's going on,
945
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,240
it can't be that Andrés has made
946
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:48,960
his family and friends happy
and the only one not happy is him."
947
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,720
Imagine my face when he tells me
948
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:57,680
a guy who's got it all, or nearly all,
949
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,200
is really not happy at that moment.
950
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:06,680
It's not unusual that after a period
of brilliance or intensity,
951
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:10,840
one feels a moment of emptiness,
952
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:16,240
a comedown, to put it in layman's terms.
953
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,880
We could compare it
to post-partum depression.
954
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:26,080
There are times you live
with great intensity.
955
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,120
You prepare a long time for it,
and when you get it,
956
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,520
you feel a certain emptiness.
957
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:39,600
Then I began some treatment.
958
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,160
It was hard at the beginning.
959
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:49,200
And at the same time I contacted Inma
960
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:54,280
and we began a relationship
961
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,480
lasting many days,
many weeks, many months.
962
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:00,640
It's like everyone understands
963
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,680
if you have health problems,
work problems, money problems,
964
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,440
or if a loved one is seriously ill,
965
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,480
they can understand you being depressed.
966
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:16,320
It's as if depression
needed a justification.
967
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,720
Anna never left him
during those moments, ever.
968
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:26,880
At that time she came every night
to sleep at his place.
969
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:29,720
To stand beside him, was the most
important thing, I think,
970
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:33,800
because at that time,
he needed to feel his people close to him.
971
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:40,360
Andrés' recovery was entirely
a team effort, because, as I said,
972
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:46,880
from the doctor, Andrés,
Anna, his then girlfriend and now wife,
973
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,880
his mother Mari and father José Antonio,
974
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,480
his sister Maribel,
his brother-in-law Juanmi,
975
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:55,560
all said at the same time,
976
01:02:55,640 --> 01:03:01,160
"Inma, tell us what each of us can do
to help Andrés recover."
977
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:04,760
We lived for him at that time
so that he would feel well.
978
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,480
If we had a dinner and he felt unwell
979
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,600
and wanted to go,
he left and no-one asked why.
980
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:12,680
I remember going to his house to see him,
981
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:16,120
and he'd go training, come back,
and flop onto the bed.
982
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,760
He'd be there hours and hours.
983
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:23,920
At one stage I thought
this would have to stop,
984
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,240
because the most important thing was him.
985
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,560
He seemed sad, sadder when he arrived.
986
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,560
The year ended and we came back
from the pre-season
987
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:35,560
and he seemed sadder,
but players can have rough times,
988
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,240
maybe at home, whatever.
You'd speak to him.
989
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,160
"How are you, Andrés? You look sadder."
"No, I'm fine."
990
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:42,960
But I didn't know, of course.
991
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,880
I told Guardiola's brother.
992
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:47,840
I said, "Andrés isn't well."
993
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,920
His dad talked to them, too.
994
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,320
Then Guardiola tried to get him
995
01:03:56,400 --> 01:04:02,040
out of that bottomless pit he was in.
996
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:07,360
He'd say to the guv'nor, "I'm going"
997
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,800
and he'd say, "you can leave any time."
998
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,160
Pep played an important part for him,
999
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:14,840
he was very attentive to him.
1000
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,880
He was a very supportive coach
1001
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:23,240
through those times with Andrés,
which is what I think he needed.
1002
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,400
They're people and this very human thing,
1003
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,640
which befalls millions around the world,
1004
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:33,120
they have to know we're there for them.
1005
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:37,000
I'm not a doctor, no idea how to treat it.
No idea.
1006
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,880
But the club was of course there
to lend a hand.
1007
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:46,040
I think it's the same at all clubs,
to stand beside him
1008
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:50,000
and have him treated
by a specialist to try and help him.
1009
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:52,680
He said, "Inma, this is the first time
1010
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,600
I've been in a situation like this
as a coach.
1011
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:58,520
I don't really know what I should do.
1012
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,880
You, as a professional, let us know
1013
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:05,240
what we ought to do
to try and help Andrés."
1014
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,080
I remember he said,
1015
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:11,920
"The most important thing now
is Andrés, not the player.
1016
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,400
For me, the person comes before football."
1017
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:19,240
Living at La Masía
makes you close up a little,
1018
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,040
maybe to be a little more...
1019
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:26,000
in these more personal matters,
to discuss things less,
1020
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,440
to close up and keep it inside.
1021
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:33,160
Then there's a moment when,
for whatever reason, you decide to say it.
1022
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaking to him, he said he felt like
1023
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:41,240
he'd forgotten how to play football,
he couldn't do what he used to do.
1024
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:42,920
Maybe because of how Andrés is,
1025
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:46,240
we didn't appreciate the severity
of the situation.
1026
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:51,520
It was later on, as I've said,
1027
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:55,480
perhaps we could have helped more
in that process
1028
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,240
if we'd had more information.
1029
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:59,720
But that's the way he is.
1030
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,520
And he wanted to keep it quiet.
1031
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:04,840
Andrés is very reserved and quiet.
1032
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:07,680
Everyone communicates it differently
1033
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,400
and that was his way.
You have to respect it.
1034
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,000
And the truth is the game went on.
1035
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:17,440
When we found out,
he told us many more details.
1036
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,280
I remember a story he told
1037
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:24,000
about going to the cinema
with Anna one day,
1038
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:27,840
and how bad it was,
and it gives you goose pimples.
1039
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:31,320
Little by little he accepted
1040
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,720
it was a problem he had,
1041
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,280
and he had to solve it
1042
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:41,160
with the help of the psychologist,
1043
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:45,160
and little by little he came around.
1044
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,720
“But can I really be like I used to be?"
1045
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,200
And I remember they'd say to Andrés,
1046
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,200
"Well, maybe not, probably much better."
1047
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:59,360
They've helped me massively
to be myself again,
1048
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,840
to be better than myself.
1049
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,560
He realised there was more to life
1050
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,760
than playing football
and being a "yes man",
1051
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,120
and being there for everyone.
1052
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,960
It helped him to be with himself more,
1053
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:15,120
to know himself better
1054
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:17,760
and to enjoy those little things
1055
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:22,280
that when you're so high up
sometimes you can't see.
1056
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:25,560
He never missed a session,
1057
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:29,920
he never cancelled a session,
he never came late to a session.
1058
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:33,280
It's very telling that he arrived
1059
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:38,200
10 to 15 minutes
before his appointments and waited.
1060
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:41,120
He waited in the entrance
until it was time,
1061
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:45,360
because he didn't want to miss a minute
and could better prepare himself.
1062
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,720
Seeing him back in the changing room
1063
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,680
and being with us a while on the field
1064
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,400
we could see that he was doing better.
1065
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:57,760
Making public something
as personal as depression
1066
01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:03,600
displays two character traits of Andrés,
1067
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:06,600
which are courage and generosity.
1068
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,720
When I explain this it's not to say,
1069
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:14,520
"Look, I'm Andrés Iniesta, a footballer,
1070
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:19,480
I'm a celebrity and I'm going to tell you
1071
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:24,960
how to overcome depression and anxiety",
1072
01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:26,440
or whatever you call it.
1073
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,920
Am I a celebrity?
1074
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,920
Of course, but many people,
or in this case, some people,
1075
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,720
have said to me,
"Because you talked about this,
1076
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,080
many people have talked about it",
1077
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:43,120
or "People have come
for treatment and said,
1078
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,400
'we heard Andrés Iniesta
1079
01:08:47,480 --> 01:08:50,000
talking about it and it encouraged us'."
1080
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:55,120
It's welcome, I'm glad, but...
1081
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:58,720
but I've always tried to be
a normal person,
1082
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:06,040
within what is
a special world that I live in.
1083
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:18,920
Please give Romeo one of his toys.
1084
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:21,600
Not this one. It's mine.
1085
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:27,600
Come on, put it there.
Very good washing, well done.
1086
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:30,840
Look!
1087
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,040
-Very good.
-It's this one.
1088
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,240
-Me!
-You!
1089
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:42,720
Yes?
1090
01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:46,800
Your shoes... Miss...
1091
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,200
Do you need help, little lady?
1092
01:09:57,520 --> 01:09:58,800
Can you put this on?
1093
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,040
-Come on, guys.
-Let's go. School time.
1094
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,800
We're trying to enjoy them to the max,
1095
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:15,240
because we love being
with them anyway, all the time,
1096
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:19,400
doing everything with them,
taking care of everything.
1097
01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:24,240
What you try to teach your kids
1098
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,120
or pass on to them
1099
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,520
is to know how to value things,
1100
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:35,200
to respect their parents' opinions,
1101
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:39,160
to pay attention to many situations
1102
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:43,200
which, when you're a child,
you don't grasp or get.
1103
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:44,440
Let's go.
1104
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:51,640
ALWAYS WITH US
SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 11, 2010
1105
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:55,000
Before, in June, he said to me,
1106
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,760
"On Sunday, or Saturday..."
I can't remember,
1107
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,000
"..I'd like you to be at the final."
1108
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,000
And I said, "Look, the plane tickets
cost a fortune
1109
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:07,040
for the 16 hours that I'll be there.
Impossible."
1110
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:09,640
And he says, "No, I want you all to come
1111
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:13,640
because it'll be historic.
We're going to win the World Cup."
1112
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,880
I knew I wouldn't see it,
because I can't get on a plane.
1113
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:25,040
I can't because I'm really afraid of it
and so I can't fly.
1114
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:30,240
So I asked José if he wanted to go
to the World Cup by car.
1115
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,160
It sounds crazy.
1116
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,880
I thought, 21 days to get there
1117
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,320
and 21 days to get back, we could do it,
1118
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,080
but I realised it would be impossible.
1119
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:46,200
All paths went
through some warzone or other.
1120
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,560
I can believe anything of Albert.
1121
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:53,320
The legend of Iniesta's
World Cup goal begins
1122
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,480
three hours before kick-off.
1123
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,520
A lot of things happen before a final.
1124
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:12,880
I remember it was
a pretty big changing room.
1125
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,200
It was very easy to work.
1126
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:20,200
At that time you're trying to see
if you should bring Raúl out,
1127
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,600
if Andrés wants to do some exercises,
1128
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,320
depending on his form,
1129
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:26,960
and he just says,
1130
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:30,840
"Hey Hugo, can you make me a tee-shirt
1131
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,040
that says Dani Jarque?"
1132
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:34,920
It came to my mind...
1133
01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:42,360
there and then,
1134
01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:43,720
and I asked Hugo.
1135
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:47,640
I said, "Don't worry,
when you get back from the warm-up,
1136
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,680
the tee-shirt will be waiting for you."
1137
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:54,520
Writing it, you don't realise
1138
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,560
the significance it's going to have,
1139
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:01,640
and what it's going to mean,
1140
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:05,920
and everything else that happened
after that goal.
1141
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:10,160
DANI JARQUE, ALWAYS WITH US
1142
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:11,600
116th minute.
1143
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:14,600
Penalties seemed like an inevitability.
1144
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:19,360
In the final stages, everyone thinking
more about penalties
1145
01:13:19,440 --> 01:13:21,640
than the final victory.
1146
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:23,240
I think I'm the only player
1147
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:26,600
that didn't touch
the ball before Andrés' goal,
1148
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,160
and I remember he did it with his heel.
1149
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,520
Imagine what Andrés is like,
we're playing for our lives
1150
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:36,400
and he back heels it
in the 116th minute. Gosh.
1151
01:13:36,480 --> 01:13:37,760
His heel. He's like that.
1152
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,080
I receive the ball on the left side,
1153
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,280
and when I trap it inside
1154
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:44,440
to bring the ball to my good foot,
1155
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:48,200
I see Andrés kind of slip his marker
at the far post,
1156
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,080
and I try to cross straight to him,
1157
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:51,520
over Van der Vaart,
1158
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:55,200
but the pass is short
and the clearance reaches Cesc.
1159
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,880
Fàbregas makes a pass
which looks like it won't make it,
1160
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,680
that they'll clear it,
and it falls to Andrés.
1161
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:01,920
It falls to Andrés Iniesta in the zone,
1162
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:04,880
and I say "blimey" and enjoy the moment.
1163
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,360
It's as if the world stood still
when that ball bounced.
1164
01:14:08,440 --> 01:14:11,560
It's like slow motion
when he controls the ball,
1165
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,000
it hangs in the air for a few seconds...
1166
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,920
And then time stood still.
1167
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:22,040
It's me and the ball.
1168
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:27,000
I'm not aware of anything,
1169
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:30,160
and in those one, two, three seconds
1170
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,560
from dribbling the ball till I shoot,
1171
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:37,600
it's like a time warp.
1172
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:39,680
You need that cool head that Andrés has.
1173
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:43,480
That pause, that calm he's always had
1174
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,120
and which makes the difference.
1175
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:47,600
The ball that rises, and when it rises,
1176
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,680
you know if you don't connect properly
it can go anywhere.
1177
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:52,960
Hit it however you want, but get it in.
1178
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:54,040
We're all on our feet.
1179
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:55,880
We're saying, "goal, goal, goal."
1180
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:59,400
We were lucky
that the ball fell to Harry Potter.
1181
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,000
Once again, Andrés Iniesta.
1182
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:26,160
We thought Navas had scored,
so he passes, he shoots.
1183
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,360
We start screaming, "Navas!"
1184
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:31,520
And two people turn round
and say, "Iniesta."
1185
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:35,040
Imagine our faces when they said
"Iniesta", the seven of us,
1186
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:36,360
wearing Iniesta shirts.
1187
01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:40,040
Well, Maribel gets very worked up.
I don't like to watch.
1188
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:41,840
My partner was very nervous.
1189
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:47,680
When Spain scored I said,
"Calm down, or you'll hurt yourself."
1190
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,920
And he's staring at me, saying,
1191
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,480
"Don't you know who scored the goal?"
1192
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,320
So then I was the one
that nearly hurt myself.
1193
01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:00,160
He scored and we were hysterical.
Karlitos grabbed me, you know?
1194
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,000
It was a moment of pure joy.
1195
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:05,680
I was watching alone at home...
downstairs at Andrés's house.
1196
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,800
I think my dad hasn't seen
1197
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:17,120
many big moments like that live.
1198
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:22,520
Mari went to the club to watch it.
But the club was full of people,
1199
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,360
and I like to watch alone
and I watched at Andrés' house.
1200
01:16:25,440 --> 01:16:29,080
I saw that they'd scored a goal
but I didn't know it was him.
1201
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:31,480
When they were screaming "goal!"
1202
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:33,400
and everyone was hugging,
1203
01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:37,920
"It was Andrés, it was the boy!"
"It was your son!"
1204
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:39,760
Then I just couldn't believe it.
1205
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:44,440
"But how can he score this goal, too?"
1206
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,840
But I didn't realise it was Andrés.
I swear, I didn't know.
1207
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:49,920
I didn't even know it was him up there.
1208
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,960
When I saw everyone celebrating I left,
1209
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:57,320
put some music on upstairs
and plugged my ears,
1210
01:16:57,400 --> 01:17:03,400
because that way I controlled time
and didn't worry for those four minutes.
1211
01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:07,520
So, the five, six minutes passed
and the referee whistled.
1212
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:11,560
Then I heard the fireworks, the bangs,
1213
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,160
and from the time I could see
it didn't go to penalties.
1214
01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:16,840
Spain won, didn't they?
So I went downstairs.
1215
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:23,920
I hurried there to Andrés' house nearby,
1216
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,320
and I said, "the boy's scored!"
1217
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,880
"What do you mean, the boy scored?"
And I said, "yes!"
1218
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:33,440
I went to the TV
and I saw the replay and saw it was him.
1219
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:35,400
That's how I do football.
1220
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,160
It was a fantastic moment,
1221
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,480
for football and for everything it meant.
1222
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:45,800
All the youngsters that could see
1223
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:48,120
we were a modern country, too,
1224
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:52,840
and were able to play
as a team and we could be winners.
1225
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,360
So may years, so many disappointments,
1226
01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:59,720
and for the first time,
Spain didn't just win the World Cup,
1227
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:03,240
they won it with a goal
from their best player.
1228
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,680
It's no surprise to me
that he scored at Stamford Bridge
1229
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:11,640
and Johannesburg, because he carries
the faith, hope, expectations
1230
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:13,240
of many people with him.
1231
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:15,480
Iniesta was like a "chosen one."
1232
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:19,640
In everything.
When tough times came along,
1233
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:25,280
I think he was the national player
1234
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:26,920
you could most depend on,
1235
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,840
and I think
the players believed that, too.
1236
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,600
In the final reckoning,
you had to pass the ball to Iniesta.
1237
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,720
How lucky Andrés is
that he gets to score those goals
1238
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,480
at the most crucial, unique moments.
1239
01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:43,200
All players would like to score
the goals he does.
1240
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:47,000
He scores, let's say,
the most important goal of his career.
1241
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:51,040
And he dedicates the goal to his friend,
1242
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:53,640
which sums up very well the person he is.
1243
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:55,840
Remembering that at such
an important moment
1244
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,160
for Spain, for our country,
1245
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,720
it was something that spoke for itself.
1246
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:05,440
I didn't see that he'd painted
a tee-shirt saying "For Dani."
1247
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:09,760
We didn't see it, but after he scored
1248
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:13,400
we all saw it and it was a lovely gesture.
1249
01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:15,640
They were great friends,
1250
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:18,280
and it'll be there
for the rest of history.
1251
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:22,880
He didn't remember his Dad, his Mum,
his girlfriend or Jesus Christ.
1252
01:19:23,440 --> 01:19:25,840
He remembered a moment
1253
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,720
that he believed
that person should have been at.
1254
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,440
What one takes out of football,
1255
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:34,000
beyond the success and the goals,
1256
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,680
and the great moments, are friends.
1257
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:40,080
Friendships, sensations, feelings,
1258
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:42,520
and that's what Andrés showed
1259
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,600
when he scored
the goal making us World Champions.
1260
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:48,280
He remembered a friend.
And that's football.
1261
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:51,240
That gesture, for me,
is bigger than the goal,
1262
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:53,320
bigger than the World Cup,
bigger than anything.
1263
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:05,240
That tee-shirt had to be
at Cornellà-El Prat,
1264
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,040
at his stadium,
1265
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,960
with his people, and also the dedication,
1266
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:15,600
because it was an image of that goal,
1267
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:22,120
and it's an image
that makes me proud as a person.
1268
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:27,560
I can't remember a player who had
a better send-off than Iniesta,
1269
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,920
in the sense of footballing grandeur.
1270
01:20:30,440 --> 01:20:34,800
I remember leaving the Cornellà one day,
1271
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:37,720
after Barcelona won 1-5,
1272
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:39,960
which was painful
1273
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:46,320
for the Espanyol fans to lose 1-5
to their arch-rivals,
1274
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:50,280
and everyone was giving
a standing ovation to Iniesta.
1275
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:55,280
I think that perfectly reflects
the feeling throughout all of Spain.
1276
01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:01,040
Very proud...
1277
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:06,480
to see someone go to out on a pitch,
1278
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,400
be it in Madrid, in Sevilla,
1279
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,600
in Valencia, and get such an applause,
1280
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:17,600
as a player from Barcelona,
1281
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:20,000
that they applaud him everywhere.
He got an ovation.
1282
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,080
We should draw a lot of lessons,
1283
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:24,560
not just players, from him,
1284
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:28,360
but supporters too,
how they've treated Andrés,
1285
01:21:28,440 --> 01:21:31,400
how to treat people, right?
1286
01:21:31,480 --> 01:21:34,560
How to treat football legends,
above all in recent years.
1287
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,440
A player like Andrés Iniesta,
1288
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:44,520
who makes people fall
in love with football,
1289
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:46,200
just because he plays good football.
1290
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:50,280
Only a talent like him has the chance,
1291
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,120
the honour of having other great stadiums
1292
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:56,160
and other great fan bases
admire him so much.
1293
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,520
But when you lost against him,
you couldn't get upset,
1294
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:04,240
because he won with such style,
1295
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:07,200
with such normality and simplicity
1296
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:11,680
that it seemed fair that he won,
1297
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,640
that he should win every game
because he deserved it.
1298
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:19,280
When you finish like he's finished
his career with Barça,
1299
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:24,480
with the whole stadium
on their feet like that,
1300
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:30,840
I think that means you're a great person.
1301
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:36,440
Of course you can't lose players
like Andrés,
1302
01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:40,240
who we'll bore our grandchildren with,
1303
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:44,120
that there was this player
that did extraordinary things.
1304
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,920
Players you can see that, as youngsters,
they're a cut above.
1305
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,880
I think there have been
very special players
1306
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:53,800
in the history of this sport,
but there aren't many
1307
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:55,840
who've been able to not only be good,
1308
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,000
but make those around them good, too.
1309
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:01,160
When he has to say something
you won't like,
1310
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,360
he'll say it and that's very important.
1311
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:07,320
You need your friends most
in the bad times.
1312
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:19,720
I sat down next to him
at the entrance to the training ground.
1313
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:23,240
He had asked me to and said,
"You'll be fine."
1314
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:28,760
A very normal person who perseveres,
1315
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,200
and that's why he's so loved.
1316
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:36,720
You have an image of an idol
1317
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,280
and then you speak to him,
and he's totally different, you know?
1318
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:45,160
I try to treat others the way
he's treated me.
1319
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:48,680
THANK YOU, INIESTA
1320
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,400
"Dear Anna, it's very hard for me
1321
01:23:59,480 --> 01:24:01,200
to put into words everything
1322
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,880
that you mean to me as a partner,
as a woman,
1323
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:05,920
and as the mother of our children.
1324
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,440
The first dates, the trips,
1325
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:12,160
the family get-togethers,
the birth of our "earthquake",
1326
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,680
our magical wedding day...
1327
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,080
But it's most of all in the bitter times
1328
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:19,040
that you've shown me
you are special, Anna.
1329
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:20,840
You are unique.
1330
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,000
You're brave, you have a big heart.
1331
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:25,800
I thank you for the integrity
you've always had,
1332
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,520
how strong you were
when they told us we'd lost our child.
1333
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:34,080
Not everyone manages to come through
such difficulties, Anna, but you did.
1334
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:35,920
It made us better,
1335
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,840
and since then
I feel like an angel is with us.
1336
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:43,240
It's only the start, because with you,
the best is always yet to come."
1337
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:46,680
JANUARY 1, 2020
1338
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,880
VISSEL KOBE, WITH ANDRÉS AS CAPTAIN,
WINS ITS FIRST-EVER TITLE:
1339
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:54,560
JAPAN'S EMPEROR'S CUP
1340
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:05,320
Mate, what I can say?
1341
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:07,800
You know how much I love you.
1342
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:11,640
Never change, you're a lovely person,
1343
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:16,880
a great person and it's been an honour
1344
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:18,640
and a pleasure knowing you
1345
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:21,520
and sharing all those moments with you.
1346
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:27,080
Andrés, I love you to bits.
You're very dear to me.
1347
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:29,560
I follow you closely,
1348
01:25:29,640 --> 01:25:34,760
and I'm now a fan of the Japanese League
because of you.
1349
01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:36,080
Sometimes it keeps me up late.
1350
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:42,160
I hope to see you as Barcelona coach,
or manager of Cameroon.
1351
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,680
Then we'd win the World Cup for sure.
1352
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:47,000
It's been wonderful, Andrés.
1353
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:51,600
Having you close by, playing off you,
1354
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,120
speaking in "footballese"
without speaking to you.
1355
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:57,200
It's been spectacular. Thanks a lot, man.
1356
01:25:57,280 --> 01:26:00,960
I'll put up my own money to pay you
1357
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:04,000
because I'm sure we'd win
the World Cup with you.
1358
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,360
I like you, but I love you, too.
1359
01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:10,880
It's over.
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