Eder Sarabia and Gerard Piqué have FC Andorra moving up as they look to move on from one of Barcelona’s worst nights
On a cold, wet Sunday night in a valley some way up the Andorran Pyrenees, 18km beyond the Spanish border and somewhere above the clouds, the linesman turns towards the bench and delivers a warning. Behind him the manager of the home team is on his feet, pacing and shouting. “Eder,” the linesman says, correctly imagining a long evening already, “we haven’t even been playing six minutes.”
There is a smile then and again two hours later, sitting in a portable building at the south end of the pitch where coaching staff and sporting director dissect the match, magnetic players on the whiteboard, flipchart scrawled with the week’s objectives, laptop open. You haven’t changed, then? Eder Sarabia laughs. “Look,” he says, “I live this with passion. And since I came here people have said it’s nice to have someone natural, unafraid to express that, to be themselves.”
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