The documentary 'Andrés Iniesta, the unexpected hero' has been released and collects comments from colleagues, coaches and rivals.
The French poet and writer Charles Baudelaire once said of dance that it “can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable."
"Dancing,” he said, “is poetry with arms and legs.”
This quote on the art of dance is also a good way to describe the magic of Andres Iniesta and how the new documentary on him, Andres Iniesta: The Unexpected Hero, begins. As shots of a dancer appear on the screen, we hear talking heads–in one instance, Pep Guardiola–narrate what it’s like to watch Iniesta on the pitch.
"He [Iniesta] didn’t touch the ball," says Guardiola, the former Barcelona captain and manager, “he followed it.”
Then, the camera light shines on another talking head. This time, it’s his close friend and former midfield partner Xavi Hernandez.
“He’s the greatest talent in Spanish football that I’ve ever seen,” Xavi says. “That time-space relationship, when a player’s expecting him to come where the opponent isn’t covering, that’s just wonderful and he even waits for you until the end. He waits for you and says, ‘I’m going to get you,’ and then he does.”
Luis Enrique also chimes in: “He didn’t have two eyes, he had four. ... He was like Harry Potter with his magic wand.”
And of course, there's Lionel Messi. “Special. I think Andres is a special person. As a player and as a person, too.”
Neymar also participates in the documentary talking with passion about Iniesta: "He is a magician, it was very easy for me to have Andrés nearby, I knew that when I passed the ball, I could already make a move because I was going to receive in good position. Possibly another Iniesta will not exist."
For Sergio Busquets, “Iniesta is magic, I think we had a special 'feeling', we understood each other just by looking at each other, we knew what each other wanted at every moment”.
