Today that they fulfil 15 years of the debut of Iniesta with the first team is moment to throw the sight backwards and recognise that the manchego is one of the most genuine midfield players that have happened and will happen -surely- by the Camp Nou. Virtuosity, a vision of privileged game and an only verticality.
It said Messi in some press conference that to "Iniesta is impossible to take him out the balloon". It seems a sentence exaggerated, but the truth is that when the physicist has been to the level that demands his style of game, to the '8' few defenders have stopped him. His capacity to retain the balloon in spaces reduced and go out indemne of them was to hallucinate.
Always it has reproached him his fault of goal -with reason-, but Iniesta has compensated this lack with a series of ideal skills to be one of the most complete interiors of the history of the football. Always without shining, with the focuses aiming to other sides, but leading to the best Barça of always beside Xavi.
Renewed for life, is evident that Iniesta is far of the level of does some years, but keeps on being a really important footballer in the Barcelona of Valverde. It puts it temper, it gives sense to the game and organises the medullary. When it is not, as in Bilbao, the team accuses it.
A tandem tremendo with Xavi
The one of Terrassa and the one of Fuentealbilla. The Catalan and the manchego. The 6 and the 8. The compass and the verticality. The eccentric leadership and the silent captaincy. Dps Young formed in The Farm that fulfilled his dream to triumph in the first team. And no only this, but they left his footprint in the books of history -Iniesta follows doing it, logically-.
It does not understand the Barça of Guardiola without both. Enjoy of that game almost of game console was possible thanks to the connection of both -with the invaluable help of Busquets-. They controlled the centre of the field of overwhelming form. Anybody them tosía. They did to dance to the rivals. Past times that will not go back.