tailieunhanh - More than team by vicen villatoro

Why have you come back?” Fifteen-year-old Albert calmly faces his father, Jaume, who left his family four years ago. Back in his son’s bedroom, surrounded by the blue and scarlet colors of Barcelona’s soccer team, Jaume offers to take Albert to the 2006 Champions League final in Paris, where FC Barcelona will face the fearsome Arsenal team. On the train journey | BARCeLONA eBOOKS MORE THAN A TEAM A FATHER. A SON AND BARẸA WINNER OF THE 2010 RAMON LLULL PRIZE VICENẸ VILLATORO 1 Ulysses has at last indeed come home again. The Odyssey Why have you come back Jaume thinks that parents shouldn t have to knock on their children s bedroom doors that the doors should always be open. Well that is what he thought. That is what he thought four years ago before he left. But back then Albert was eleven. Things were different. Jaume has just walked into Albert s room without knocking and finds him sitting at the computer with the music cranked up. Rosa told him to go in without her it s better if you go in on your own. Jaume nodded and crossed the hallway. Years ago there was a time when it had been the hallway of his home. The white of the walls has yellowed a little and there is a painting that wasn t there before. But the important things are still where they used to be they haven t changed that much. At the end on the right next to the bathroom is Albert s bedroom with the door shut. Can I come in Yeah sure. Albert hasn t lifted his eyes from the computer screen and Jaume thinks he has minimized something as if he was trying to hide it. I wanted to speak to you. Now No it doesn t have to be right now. Or we can if you want. Whatever you want. The bedroom is a jumbled den. Clothes on the floor. The bed unmade. A shelf full of books and exotic miniature cars bought on vacations. A photo of Barẹa from the last season between two flags the enormous Catalan independence flag with its blue triangle and a crude plastic flag in the Barẹa colors blue and scarlet that was probably given away free at a match. A Braveheart poster. Scarlett Johansson in Match Point. Lots of photos pinned to a cork notice board taken from very close up distorted Albert and messy-haired friends that Jaume doesn t know pulling faces into the camera tired faces adolescent and pale dressed up as punks in groups of twos and threes. On the football shirt hanging from .