Serrajordi, Zubimendi, Salah, Pedri, Trent... Football Is Trained on a Chess Board

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Football, as a global mass sport, relies on many others to explain itself. From chess it has taken metaphors and similes that fit like a glove. Anyone who has seen an encounter from a zenithal position can imagine a board where each action takes place as a movement of pieces. The pawns, the towers, the king... Each team has their own in search of a goal that supposes a checkmate. No wonder that important elite players have confessed their passio…