# stevenwhitetqs ## Recent Posts - [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/-3) - [Gennaro Gattuso](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/gennaro-gattuso-1) - [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/-2) - [Milan](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/milan-1) - [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/-1) - [Ruben Amorim](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/ruben-amorim-1) - [mbappe](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/mbappe) - [Legend of Fotball](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/legend-of-fotball): All these days I've been trying to grasp the Iniesta phenomenon, searching for the right wording. It seems like I've already caught it - and they've slipped away again. I feel the same as his rivals. I almost reached him, and he became transparent for a millisecond and dodged. That's probably what separates him. Iniesta doesn't let anyone touch him. The ball clings to him; they become one, incorporeal. And they glide as suavely as it sounds: "In-es-ta". Inhale, freeze, sweet exhale. But the god of football didn't choose Iniesta for this. He designed the game as a collective symphony. Probably, Iniesta is the only magician in history who directed all magic towards the team. Not one ounce of personal realization or vanity, but all for the team. After all, this is so against human nature. Feeling gifted, we tend to break off at least a little for ourselves. But Iniesta is different-an apotheosis of teamwork. And that's why there hasn't been a season when Iniesta was obviously the best player in the world. He always was overshadowed by someone brighter. And his strongest season, symbolically became the greatest performance in history - when Messi scored 118 goals and assists. As Juan Lillo said it right: "Messi produces the brightest episodes, but Andres is always the best on the field." And it was Iniesta who raised Messi to the heights at which we see him today. Messi himself admitted it and asked him during difficult matches: "Andres, be close to me, please. As close as possible." Another quality that sets him apart from mere mortals is his character: guileless, unaggressive, mute, soft-spoken. Such men should not win great victories. Iniesta has no need of rigor to be resolute. What he did in finals that required a special fortitude: • The 2006 final: "Thank God Iniesta came on in that match," says Xavi. "Otherwise, we would have definitely lost." Henry thought the same. • 2009 final, Rooney: "We didn't lose to Barcelona, ​​we lost to Iniesta, the best player in the world." Before that match Ferguson said: "I'm not afraid of Messi because the real threat is Iniesta. He's incredible. Thanks to him Barca is so good." 2011 final, same Ferguson: "We're afraid of their midfielders, not their forwards. Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets." And all three scored a goal in that game. Andres did the same in the 2015 final. He turned matches around, even though it seemed there was nothing to turn them around with. It was Iniesta who scored the most important goal for the Spanish national team-the winning goal at the World Cup. And he is the only one in history who has become the best player in all the major finals: the World Cup, the European Championship, the Champions League. A genius of space and time, of millimeters and milliseconds. Diaphanously light, silent, his body feeling the game with every cell. "Watching him, I learned to understand football better," Guardiola said. So, the god of football chose Iniesta also because he alone combines everything that is inherent in the greats: the magic of Messi, the hard work and discipline of Ronaldo, the aesthetics of Ronaldinho, the intelligence of Xavi, the reliability of Nesta and Maldini, the winning mentality of Zidane. And all this is for the team. This is football, its essence, sealed in a person. He expressed himself through the game, entirely. It cannot even be called an expression, Iniesta simply was himself, his soul naked on the pitch-and he was the embodiment in the field of football on it: a simple and at the same time magical game. - [tilt](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/tilt) ## Blog Information - [Homepage](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/): Main blog page - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@stevenwhitetqs): Subscribe to updates ## Optional - [All Posts](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/): Complete post archive - [Sitemap](https://paragraph.com/@stevenwhitetqs/sitemap-index.xml): XML sitemap for crawlers