He is the one who carried Spain on his shoulders yesterday in the semi-finals, he is the naturalized leader of La Roja on this Euro, he assumes the fact of not being the most Spanish of the band, and, inevitably, he knows nothing of the rivalry that has accompanied the two nations for a good ten years. Sit down Lolo, you won’t be disappointed.
We’ve been talking a lot about Lorenzo Brown for a few weeks, and in more ways than one. First of all ? Impossible to miss the talent of the leader of La Roja and Maccabi Tel-Aviv, who has participated since the start of the Euro to make Spain a winning team, again and again. Then there is this naturalized player status, Lorenzo is American, which always makes you cringe and even more so when the guy thrashes all the defenses he encounters. We talked a lot about the Joel Embiid case recently in France, almost every nation has “its” naturalized, with more or less acquaintances with his “adopted” country, and Lorenzo Brown is clearly one of those guys who doesn’t would probably not have the average on a special MCQ Spain. Either, that’s the game, and tomorrow anyway we will have to make sure that this new Iberian does not spoil the evening for us. Lorenzo, he, in any case, continues on his merry way and has established himself for two weeks as one of the superstars of this Euro, and when he was questioned yesterday after the Spanish victory against Germany, the boy does not s is not hidden from his lack of knowledge concerning the Franco-Spanish rivalry, which we know by heart but of which he has no damn idea:
“I don’t know much about rivalry France – Spain but I’ll do some research tonight when I get to the hotel! »
How beautiful is this innocence… Rudy Fernandez who is tying Tony Parker, Nicolas Batum who is aiming for Juanca Navarro’s package, all that doesn’t say anything at all to Lorenzo, who risks being damn surprised by doing his little research. Because the leader of La Roja is clearly going to set foot tomorrow on a minefield, a hostile surface on which so many soldiers have fallen over the past ten years, on which fronts against fronts have multiplied, on which insults have been hurled in both languages. Not necessarily the guarantee of a general scrum in 2022, but a duty of memory which seems obligatory to us on the eve of such a shock, such a classic. Completely detached from the event for the moment, the killer of the back line of Sergio Scariolo will therefore find out very quickly what kind of match he will have to play tomorrow, and in the event of a Spanish victory and even more of a big performance from their last arrived, we risk talking for a long time about the special status of Lorenzo because, it is well known, defeat amplifies the seum and logically helps us to ask ourselves questions.
Lorenzo Brown, welcome to the wonderful world of the rivalry between France and Spain. You weren’t aware, now you are, and know that on the pitch the French will take you for a Spaniard like any other and that’s not necessarily good news for you.