Ferrándiz and FC Barcelona

Today I remembered Ferrándiz, the man who won everything with Real Madrid inBasketball. He fit Barcelona well. Time proves him right.

There is an interview by Tomás Guasch from 2006 with a devastating headline. It goes like this: "Barça closed its section because of the beatings we gave it"

I highlight some pearls, but reading it is mandatory. On merengue basketball: "a successful invention that has given Madrid as much glory as football, naturally within its limits." Asked fro Don Santiago: "Don Santiago was the De Gaulle of football." Raimundo Saporta: "the best informed man in those times, a very skilled negotiator, likeable to the point of seduction, basketball owes him everything"

I do not quote more because the interview deserves a complete reading; Tomás knew how to get juice out of him.

Twelve leagues, eleven Cups and four European Cups contemplate Ferrándiz, and it is important to know where we come from. He made history with Alocén's basket, a scene that changed the sport and that will deserve its own entry one day here.

And he has been an honorary member of Real Madrid since 2017 (Florentino takes care of these things) for being a pioneer, a benchmark and a great legend.

Why did I suddenly remember him today? Because he is the man with a spectacular record: 87 games without losing (3 years, 2 months and 16 days without defeat). Normal that Barcelona closed the section in that decade of the 60s, because that's how it was, they closed it for a while.

And today I have remembered it because Barça, which owes money to half the planet, continues to operate at a loss with basketball https://twitter.com/FCBbasket/status/1542821566483939329 < p style="text-align: justify;">According to the accounts made public these years, the section is reporting losses to Barcelona of around 28 million euros. And in a situation of economic destruction, it would seem sensible not to continue with the waste.

In other words, if I owe 100 euros, and someone give me a loan of 120, it's not that I have 20. It's that I still owe those 100, plus 20, plus whatever the price of those 20 goes up in what I return it.

These things are not taught in school, but life always ends up asking for accounts. The way has to be to cut back, to be able to face those payments. But no, the Barcelona soci does not want to know about numbers. He wants to beat Real Madrid now, not in ten years. If they have to become the property of an emir, they will. Whatever it is unless Madrid wins. Anything less having to close the section out of embarrassment again.

Laporta is Bartomeu with a cigar.