"Missillessen ', the second who wanted to be first

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After three years of substitute in a comfort zone at Barça, he faces a great challenge. This season he has had four injuries. He leaves Barça as a better goalkeeper than when he came despite playing 10 games a year.

Jasper Cillessen leaves Barça after playing 32 official games in three years (less than 11 per course) in which he conceded 20 goals. He has not given a single problem and has gone face to face. Last year he personally told Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu that he wanted to leave the club because he did not have minutes. It was on the United States tour of Barça. Bartomeu told him that he would not leave unless he paid his clause of 60 million euros, but he valued his sincerity and promised to facilitate the exit for the next course. Has fulfilled. It is a strange case of Cillessen. Apparently, he left Barça being a better goalkeeper than the one that came from Ajax between doubts, something intoxicated everything has to be said. That substitution 'random' (which also went well) of Van Gaal in the quarterfinals of the World Cup when he removed Cillessen to put Krul in the penalty shootout created him some reputation as a vulnerable goalkeeper. So when Barca paid 13 million euros to Ajax in the summer of 2016, the price seemed exaggerated. "There are no quality goalkeepers for that price, time will prove us right," said an authorized voice from the technical secretariat to Ace then.

To sign for Barça, Cillessen had to accept in a transparent manner that he was, officially, the second goalkeeper of Barça. Ter Stegen had threatened shortly before to go to the City if it was not the holder in League and the extreme position of the German finished with the sale of Claudius Bravo to the citizens. Cillessen maintained a low profile in its beginnings. He knew that he would only play the Cup and he complied. It was important in the first season and he only made one mistake: in the final against Alavés he ate Theo's pitch but Barça won and was forgotten. With a respectful relationship with Ter Stegen from the first to the last day ("learning from the best", he managed to post on his social networks once this last year), in the second year he settled as a player respected by the fans of Barça. In Valencia remember a tremendous stop to Gayá in the Copa semifinal that complemented others made in previous rounds as in the first year against Athletic and Real. Then began to po[CENSORED]rize the 'Missileless'. Cillessen has a spectacular shot from his area that allows to mount kickbacks or disarm defenses that play ahead or those of three central that are measured one by one with the rival strikers. The last year of Cillessen has not been easy. He already knew that he wanted to leave and lived in a somewhat paradoxical way his triumph in the Netherlands national team, where Koeman again made him indisputable, with his forgetfulness at Barça, where he did well or badly he would be a substitute. The matter had a hot spot in the quarterfinal against Sevilla. The Barca came from a 2-0 against in the first leg. With 2-0 in favor of the azulgrana in the return, Cillessen made an incredible stop to Andre Silva and stopped a penalty to Banega ... He arrived as a hero to the semifinals ..., and was injured a day earlier. This year has been injured four times (ribs, leg, muscle tear and hip), a detail that is not trivial. In total, has accumulated six injuries in his three seasons of azulgrana.

Cillessen has ended the season badly. In the Cup final he was weak and in the League of Nations he did not stop as he used to. I had my head elsewhere, leave Barça. Affable player in the dressing room, who has truly enjoyed Barcelona and has been an example of adapting to the city's surroundings and the costumes, has proven himself as a great substitute. Now he has a new challenge. To put oneself under the sticks of a stadium of the greatness of Mestalla every Sunday and with the shadow of great historical goalkeepers planning on it should not be easy. It's time for Misillessen.