It does not have the touch, the technician neither the capacity combinativa of the rest of the midfield players of the FC Barcelona. In fact, it could say that it treats of a profile of footballer very move# away of the called 'DNA Barça' that cultivates in The Masia, and that from does decades has kept like the signal of identity of the Barcelona club.
However, Arturo Vidal has achieved to win to the fans of the FC Barcelona. The Chilean midfield player contributes qualities that the barcelonismo missed, and that therefore so much they value . The harp, the intensity during the ninety minutes, the brega constant by each played, in each movement of pressure to the rival, the work of 'all-campista' in both areas...
To base of tesón and win, Arturo Vidal has turned into all a 'warrior' to idolise for the fans culé, and in a very wanted player. This Saturday the public of the Camp Nou him ovacionó when it left substituted, and is used to to do it whenever it appears from the bench in the second parts, especially when it touches to keep a favourable result.
Arturo Vidal moves away of the profile of the rest of midfield players culés, and this precisely is what turns him into a well so esteemed for Ernesto Valverde, the one who is knowing to manage to perfection his minutes. 'King Arturo', with his dynamism and continuous fight, keeps also the intensity of the rest of his mates by mere inertia.
"To Arturo Vidal gives him the same play in Huesca that in Old Trafford. His intensity is always the same", ensured Valverde in one of his last interventions in front of the press. It does not be missing him reason, because Arturo Vidal is of those players that always do fault in a team, of which do changing room and in those who can trust to 100% that will leave the skin in the field.
Arturo Vidal, a player that always sweats the T-shirt
This Saturday like this did it against the Real Sociedad, and expects that it go back to do it when it touch him dress of short again. The Chilean arrived to the Barça to win titles, and now that it sees so near of a triplete in his first season with the FC Barcelona, resorts to the illusion and to the motivation like main fuel when the energies fail. The Camp Nou knows it, and appreciates it. The exert of Arturo Vidal has prize.