A year ago everything stopped. The Coronavirus pandemic stopped an entire planet. The new normal is still far from coming, and so far football has not been able to honor all those affected as it would like. At the moment the Metropolitan he will live his first derby without people. …
Two of the sectors most affected by the pandemic have been healthcare and hoteliers. Although not the only ones, but they have been the protagonists of the last year for very different reasons. Now for some a victory of the Athletic it would give them a joy.
Antonio Noguera, X-ray nursing assistant of the Gregorio Marañón, has had to live the harshest side of the pandemic. “We have had a very bad time. Especially at the beginning because we didn't even have material. We have felt abandoned. Above, you saw that the sick could not even stand up, they fell. Now the affected people are already walking. We have the feeling that the virus is less harmful, although there is still a lot to fight ”.
That if he is very clear about what he would do with those people who still do not take this pandemic seriously. “Let them come with us one day, put on PPE and turn a sick person around and you'll see how they change their minds.”
The ones who don't take it seriously? Let them come with us one day, and turn a sick person around …
After the suffering of the last year, Antonio He hopes to be happy in the derby. “We have to beat him yes or yes. We have a better team than them. The Madrid he is not well, the other day he tied at 90 and he does not look like in other years. We will see what approach does the Cholo…. that there are times that it does not finish convincing me. But come on, I think that if we win the derby we have three quarters of the League in our pocket. This year we cannot escape it ”, he explained to MD.
The hospitality
Although they are not the only professionals who have been affected by the Coronavirus. Paco Grande runs the bar Big, located in Carabanchel. A family business in which the rojiblanco feeling is perceived in all four walls. There are shields of the Athletics, photos of Torres … Sunday will be a mini-Metropolitan.
The Athletics makes this crisis more bearable. “We are suffering like everyone else, holding on, let's see if all this happens and we can work normally. Meanwhile, there is no other option but to resist ”, to which he adds that“ the hardest moment of the pandemic is when they eliminated Atleti from the Champions”, He says with resignation, trying to forget the nightmare caused by the pandemic.
Finally, about the derby, he assures MD that “I see the Athletics, we're doing pretty well. We won the League and in Champions we are going to qualify against him Chelsea and then game by game. I see the derby ‘sucked’. I see the whites with great fear. I would tell you that we are going to beat them 3-0 ”.
I see the whites with great fear. I would tell you that we are going to beat them 3-0