LThe decision of the captain of Barcelona and the Spanish handball team, Raúl Entrerríos , to extend his career one more season after the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics takes on all its meaning when he is about to play one of the great events that remained suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Final Four of the Champions League.Barça won the right to play it as the leader of their group in the league phase, and they are opting for their tenth European Cup that was resisted in the previous four editions . An early climax this time mid-season. "It is a different Final Four for all that it implies, because it corresponds to last season, but it has become a goal of this year's squad," recalls Raúl. "We are very excited to live it and get such an important title even though it is a very different situation from what we are used to.
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The dates of this Final Four, December 27 and 28, overlap with the matches that Spain will play in the Euro Cup just before the World Cup. Commercial and economic interests put the physical integrity of the players at risk, and some very important have spoken out against playing the World Cup in Egypt. "The current situation has only compressed the calendar even more. The key is to have the necessary rest to face the competitions in the best possible way," says Entrerríos.
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Underlying this predisposition to be present in all the great battles is the fact that this is his last season, a kind of extension that he earned the right to dispute after agreeing to it with Barça. "I am saying goodbye to something that I have been doing for many years and this is not easy," he emphasizes. "When you are faced with the prospect that it is the end, it is still strange. I am experiencing a lot of sensations of all kinds throughout this season. I feel privileged to be able to compete in such a rare year, in which a lot of people cannot make their normal lives. But I also see empty pavilions, and I realize that it is not a normal farewell, like the one that anyone would wish. I try to live the present to the fullest, with many goals ahead and I hope I can have a nice ending ".
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In the Final Four, which has hosted Cologne since 2010, it has earned the fame of being the biggest event in world handball thanks to the quality of the teams that play it and the atmosphere that is created in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, always packed with its 19,250 locations . This time it will be a muted Final Four, almost ghostly in that huge venue, no matter how much the EHF tries to cover it with technological pyrotechnics. A very present circumstance among the protagonists. "It will be a very significant change, to go from playing with an extraordinary environment, to doing it alone. A strange feeling", assumes the Barça captain. "It is about concentrating on the 40x20, abstracting from the cold environment and being the ones who warm up the game," he proposes.Raúl will have two chances to lift the new Champions League trophy. Barça has a record of 21 undefeated matches and seems to be also heading towards the 2020-21 Final Four. "Hopefully. It's what we all consider at the beginning of a season like this. We knew we would have the opportunity to play it in December, and we have a good line of results to be in the next one. Playing two Final Four would be extraordinary," acknowledges the Asturian player, distinguished this week with the silver medal of the city of Gijón for his brilliant sports career.
After the retirement of the other Barcelona captain, Víctor Tomás, motivated by a heart ailment, Entrerríos remains the only Barça player who will play with Barça for the eighth time in a Final Four -Aron Palmarsson has done it with three different clubs-, that his team he won in 2011 and 2015. "Throughout my career, and I speak of the last few years at Barcelona, each competition is an objective in itself, including the Final Four. That is why I face it the same as other times, but at the same How long do you think it may be the last experience I have in Cologne, as well as in other tracks or other tournaments. You have to find a balance in all this and the best way to do it is to focus on doing my job as I have always done. "