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At La Masia, the Spanish winger absorbed the wisdom of the greats before him and topped it with his own unique abilities. And like in a palimpsest, you can see in his game glimpses of the skills of those who have gone before him.
Last weekend, Twitter threw up this random post on my timeline of a toddler, barely old enough to walk, nailing football drills. The sight sent me down a rabbit hole of memory.
I loved kicking a football around, as which true-blue Malayali kid doesn’t? Even before I was in my teens, my father’s first cousin K.P. Sethumadhavan (I wrote of him here) was tending goal for the Indian national team, and that inspired childhood ambitions to don national colours.
I trained, and I played, first for my school and then for my college. The level of coaching was …
