No one is aware that not all clubs have the same budget to meet the season, a fact which obviously is a decisive factor for the interests of a team. Having money means not only signing well, but to enjoy most suitable conditions for the staff to reach its goal-that is, win games, with guarantees.
the same way we play at home may be a simple and safe routine for the wealthy, who enjoy the substantial advantages of air travel the day before the game to night and rest before the collision, for others, get to your destination can be an endless journey, a long trek through the desert that only positive reading can be obtained as the inexhaustible number of events and stories tend not to sleep that occur in these pathways.
The Journey from A Coruña to Los Barrios to play a single party, as happened to us twice during my stay in the now defunct North Surveys from 2002 to 2004, meant to me an amazing experience unparalleled in my career as a basketball player. Galicia leave at midnight to remain confined for 16 hours in a bus adapted using traditional foam mattresses on the floor to sleep, eating bad movies or betting in any game of chance, from the classic bingo games pocha up through the type poker Texas hold 'em - does not seem the best strategy for reaching optimum physical condition for a match, but nevertheless, this was the only option that could afford a small club like that to perform these movements. However, the two seasons we walked up and down Portugal to Algeciras left us a balanced balance: one win and one defeat.
nights on these trips are endless. After seeing two or three masterpieces of auteur-style " Zoolander," "The Animal " or " Road trip: travel freaks," reference movies for so many teams recent years, sleeping on a mattress on the floor, crammed together with your mates and listening to the murmur of uncomfortable motor from sudden temperature changes, it becomes an impossible task. In those moments, sharing odors of any kind, or the snoring of a pivot 125 kilos Nigerian who wisely choose not to wake, inevitably ask the same question that Lucio Angulo assaulting one of his posts on the possibility of having exceeded, albeit inadvertently, on the premise of "making the team."
refueling stops are also a lot of play. Imagine for a moment fronted by an operator of a petrol station late at night and in the middle of God knows where, when approached by a dozen six-foot guys led by a rate of 2.07 in a white shirt Straps up knees, gold chains and an electrified afro hairstyle that would leave Don King in a very simple fringe, demanding the opening of the store in a pidgin English to stock up on chips and coca-cola. Many times, nor do we opened. On another occasion, desperate to stop a player requested urgently to meet the untimely call of nature, which came in a bus without a toilet. Well, the driver either maimed or short, stopped immediately in the first place I peered into the road, one of those places that are advertised with lots of neon lights. The player did not dare to enter, preferring to hide behind trees to solve your topic.
few years ago, a club which chained a spectacular run of wins after the Christmas break, and finally make the climb in June, decided to motivate his players by promising that, as things went wrong on the pitch, would become a effort to ensure all journeys are made by air. A more interesting incentive to save miles on the road and extend a little sporting careers of some players, but far less profitable time to accumulate experience and truly unforgettable episodes.
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