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Sid LoweSpain writer
Ama Maria was the happiest woman in the world. That was her little boy down there, scoring the goal that took Athletic Club — the only team he had ever wanted to play for — to the Supercopa de Espana final. And that, that was her little boy too, down there with him. Nico Williams’ mum was there to see the moment the 19-year-old guided a gorgeous shot past Jan Oblak, tears welling up in her eyes; his brother was there too, right there. Inaki Williams plays with him, as he always has.
What’s the point of all these words? What good can they do when the picture paints a million of them, more moving than they could ever hope to be? Just look at it, feel it. Look through it too, to everything that lies beyond, to everything it conveys, everything it means, everything it took to make this possible in the first place. A goal celebration that was so much more, that was everything.
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When the ball hit the back of the Atletico Madrid net, together Athletic’s players embraced Nico, the youngest of them: He’s a special kid they have known for years, since he was tiny. One of them held back a little, bursting with pride. He waited because it was right and he wanted it to be just right. Just a little longer; it had been two decades coming, time to hold onto this moment. When the others had finished, standing back a little to watch, proud of them too, Inaki hugged his brother. Hard.
Inaki lifted Nico in the air, feet off the floor and held him there, dangling, still his little kid brother, the one he had raised before and raised now. “If I LOVED YOU ANY MORE, I WOULD DIE,” he wrote later on social media. “I…
Source : espn
