Koeman, Piqué and rudeness

Koeman is the perfect coach for Barça. And Piqué is the best captain the Catalan club could have. Both are useful and give more value to the team than they can take away from it. Two figures who transform themselves in front of the media. They know how to launch the message they want to get across to the public. They dominate the stage. 

Vitamin Koeman is here to stay at Barça. A former player with home-grown DNA who scored a Champions League goal. The Zidane of Barça. He was the club's spokesman during the period of the Junta Gestora. He spoke about everything and defended his club above all others. It didn't matter to him that the future president could put him on the street the next day. He has revealed himself to be a temperate, but transparent guy at press conferences. 

After the Clásico at Valdebebas, Koeman showed his most incorrect and most foolish side. It's true that his first words were to criticise his team's poor play in the first half. But it didn't take him long to go on to criticise the refereeing in two situations: Mendy's penalty on Braithwaite and Gil Manzano's added time in the second half. He was stubborn in his complaint. He ended up asking the journalist Ricardo Sierra what he thought of the penalty and left the interview without waiting for the next question. 

Koeman's Barça has given back some illusion to the Barça fans. With the resources they have, they have woven some interesting football and Messi is smiling again. Laporta trusts the Dutchman and there are even titles to be won on the horizon. Ronald Koeman is throwing all that work away when he moans after games because the referees have not whistled what he would have whistled in his team's favour. To his credit, the application of VAR this season has been a continuous mess that has driven the players and the public crazy. 

Piqué is the eternal Barça crybaby. A captain, canterano and one of the most intelligent players on and off the pitch. A reference for his club. A successful businessman who will end up presiding over Barcelona one day. 

When the armband cuts off his circulation after a defeat, the most vulgar Piqué appears. The one who insults Tebas at El Madrigal, the one who calls Arbeloa a cono-cido or the one who questions the league Real Madrid won after the confinement. Not to mention his slips on Twitch assuring that the referees are Real Madrid. The captain's inferiority complex knows no bounds. Equal parts provocative and incautious. 

In Valdebebas Piqué lived the Clásico in the stands. He warmed up as the minutes went by and after the game he took to the pitch. He congratulated the Real Madrid players, but when he got to Modric the Croatian smelt his real intention and told him off for going down to complain to the referee. He did not miss. Piqué stood in front of Gil Manzano and reproached him for his actions. He even confronted an employee of his club who was trying to stop him. 

Barça are still in the fight for La Liga. He was an active part of a very intense match against Real Madrid. It has a title waiting in the Copa del Rey final. And who knows if Laporta will make Messi stay at the club. The present made the future good until Koeman and Piqué arrived. Two Barcelona stalwarts blaming the referee for the defeat for a penalty they know wasn't one. That Mendy's brace is not good enough to bring down an opponent. 

And the worst thing of all is that against another opponent they would have kept silent about that play. They wouldn't have shed a single tear over something so insufficient. They spoiled the Clásico for Barça. Another game of pointing fingers at the referee. Yet another game stepping on their crest.