With a brief video there was one of the most expansive news of recent times on the planet basketball. of children of the Joventut school in Badalona carrying a giant canvas that covered the parquet of the Olimpic and that, when deploying it, could be read: Torrna [Vuelve, en catalán]. Two erres. Those of Ricky Rubio, who, according to the Verdinegro club, “smiles again” with him. A smile that is spread to Spanish basketball, which recovers one of the most talent players in their history. After a season without playing to reflect on his career, Ricky Rubio will return to 34 years to defend the Penya shirt, the club in which he formed and where his legend was born. The International Base explained on Wednesday its sensations against this expected return to the courts. “I have not prepared anything, but I tell you and I will be honest, to open. The first thing, thanks because at a difficult time I was very respected. And to say that I come with an illusion that have not had a long time. An illusion that I have never had,” Ricky said in the act of presentation in society as Verdinegro.
“I heard the life calmly and decided,” Ricky said in the act of Olympic in Badalona, who started late because of a deafening beep that squeak Pen, recorders and cameras, a cloud of journalists. There was also Pau Ribas, his former partner and now already a former player, who returned the assistance to Ricky, who a couple of months ago appeared in the pavilion in the last match of the course with his shirt to fire him with honors. “I am for our friendship, to support him and to celebrate with him,” Ribas explained; “I always advised him to do what he felt most and come to Penya is great news to reengrate people and to make a club. Although unfortunately he has come when I have gone, so he has not had much in consideration.”
Dressed in a shirt of his new clothing brand of the Ricky Rubio Foundation – and get the sick cancer patients to be informed – he first posed with the Joventut shirt and the nine on his back. Then it opened. “At the end of the season with Barça I was lost. I raised scenarios, but from despair. August arrived and I told myself that I wanted to take a blank year. And this process has been a roller coaster, enriching, but also difficult for many moments,” he began; “And every time I saw that the withdrawal was closer every day.” But suddenly, in April, something did in clicamong other things because the interview in the program What about Évole He helped him: “I open myself so much that I was healthy. I was afraid, but you have to understand that we are all human.” That and several things that happened to him in April -he did not specify which, something was kept for him -made him decide. “It was a seed that entered me, calmly, where the ego did not speak.” And it was exposed: “When I stopped. Differentiating the person from the ego has been the most difficult. The ego is necessary, but I had to listen to me because I did not know me. Understanding emotions, feelings, channeling them, understanding when and why I get angry. Heal inside.”
In that one -year process, Ricky ended up understanding his recipe for success. “I understood that I wanted to reconcile with the player. You have to understand that before players we are human, people. This is a part of what we do and we spend a lot of time, but you have to know how to combine. And, incidentally, I play again, I kill two birds of a shot, to see if I can enjoy a little,” he agreed. Along the way, his son Liam did not help him much. “Would you like Dad to play?” I asked him. “I don’t care,” I replied. “But the important thing is within oneself. Feel good. And so I am. I thought the criticisms did not affect me. But the outside world conditions you. Yesterday, after the news, I received some criticism. And, for the first time, I thought:” Poor, I have to criticize me. It shouldn’t be fine. “That’s because I’m fine inside.”
Ovation when entering and leaving the press room, with his natural smile, with a worked speech, with reasoned arguments, Ricky resolved: “Yes, it will be my last club. There is no doubt. The same change, but right now I say yes, one hundred percent.” And he closed: “I think I will be nervous in my first game, from 0 to 100%, I have 200% desire to play. But I’m sorry. Like yesterday, instead of facing everything like a robot, I did it humanly. Even with a video of an fan who taught my wife, I fell a tear.” This was of illusion, the one he has and the Joventut, also the basketball, to see him in the parquet and see him as a player and person.
