The inexplicable defeat from this Thursday in Conference League before him Mladá Boleslav left few indifferent. Pain and discredit were the most common adjectives reported by the reports immediately after the game. It was justified by the faces of the players themselves, aware of the terrible performance and the magnitude of their setback. And you can draw in the figuration of the face of the almost 300 Betic fans who moved to this Prague peripheral citymotivated by the green and white that colors their hearts and their loss of reason, since they did not see their hope reciprocated. A feeling that is indefinable for fans born on the banks of the Guadalquivir and that, without a doubt, would leave numerous questions in the heads of two somewhat peculiar Betics. Dawid Skibinski and Marcin Riki They are two fans, of Polish origin, who met in a hidden bar in this cold Czech town in the hours before the game. If atypical is his love for Betis, which shamelessly escapes the usual paternal-filial foundation, so is its coincidence. In sports stadium, Once this medium moved to the scene of the events, we were able to learn about the origin of their stories.
Loose with the language, as if he were born in the Virgen del Rocío Hospital, Dawid goes back to two parallel points to try to give shape to his bond with the entity. On the one hand, the Krakow fan brought up what had been his location for more than three months for work reasons: “I wanted to live this environment because I have heard a lot about Antonio and Chacho. I lived in Seville ten years ago, on Calle Feria. For two or three months, and it’s like a return to the old days. It also happens to me that I hear that accent, the Andalusian, so characteristic, and it seems familiar to me. “Do I know what La Macarena is? Of course, I lived next door.”
For his part, his current friend and co-worker is largely to blame. Antonio Rivas, in charge of impregnating his seed of Beticism: “We are waiting for the game, warming up with a beer, with good people: Betic people.” “I’m here for my friend Antonio. I want to be with them, live this experience. Antonio is a kid who lives the Betic life and wanted to show me the atmosphere. I also want to compare this with what we have in Poland. I went to several games of the Polish teams and this is different. It has a different feel, but I love this.”
For Antonio, questioned about the way his Polish friend Dawid converted to Betis, the answer was easy: “I talk to him a lot about Betis. You know that when we don’t win I’m not in a good mood. “He likes football and has become a Betic.”
Proof of his Beticism is the adventure he embarked on to watch the game. More than six hours by car, from another country, as a sign that he is also a ‘Crazy in the Head’: “We left Krakow at 6:00 in the morning. It was hard for me to get up, but we are here. We arrived around 1/2. “I was in a hurry because we couldn’t lose this atmosphere.”
In the absence of a Polish Betician, two
This week’s exotic beticismo story has one more twist. The protagonist Dawid joined Marcin Riki. This Betic fan, component of the Peña Bética Triana, He went to the same bar as before without knowing anything about each other. His adventure surprised even the ‘Macareno Cracoviano’: “He told me that he spoke a little Spanish, but I was surprised that he came here from Torun. Torun is a city in northern Poland. “I was surprised that a kid came from there, it’s a 7-hour drive.”
With difficulties in getting around in Spanish, he has kept the Betic flame alive for years. This is what Dawid, who acts as translator, conveys: “He attends most of the games there are. I live in Poland, but I belong to the Peña Bética Triana, who are like a family to me. I have been to Kosice, Rome, Manchester”…
Questioned about the importance of Betis in his life, An admirable and poetic monologue in Polish preceded Dawid’s joke: “Do you understand?” Immediately afterwards, he started again with the translation of his compatriot. “It’s something I feel inside. What the Betis people have attracted me, that drive, and I felt like one of the Betis people. I feel like I’m at home. I feel it in my heart, it comes from the atmosphere that exists.”