A shy village boy who could not bear to leave his parents' bed, Andres Iniesta may have seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the best footballers of all time, but anyone who saw him play rarely had serious doubts.
BARCELONA - A shy village boy who could not bear to leave his parents’ bed, Andres Iniesta may have seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the best footballers of all time, but anyone who saw him play rarely had serious doubts.
“This kid is going to retire us all,” said Pep Guardiola when he first watched a teenage Iniesta in action while Spain coach Luis Enrique describes the diminutive midfielder as “Harry Potter, waving his wand”. Most touching, though, was how he celebrated that career-defining goal — ripping off his shirt to pay tribute to his late friend and fellow footballer Dani Jarque who died the previous year.
That campaign ended with Barcelona winning the Champions League, helped by Iniesta’s stoppage-time goal against Chelsea to reach the final, sparking a 50% surge in the birth rate in Barcelona.
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