Like all sports, football is nourished by a highly sensitive material: the human being. As in almost all sectors in which there are large amounts of money in motion and a factor as distorting as fame, this sensitive material tends to take many of the vices and defects of our society to the extreme. Ambitious people who speculate on the easiest way to obtain the greatest possible profit from any movement. Young billionaires who move through life in a bubble and who add more and more acquired rights that do not apply to other people. The general photo, many times – and taking perspective – tends to a certain pathos.
Old Promises (ECC) is a comic in which the authors – Álvaro Velasco and Iñaki San Román in the script part and Pedro Rodríguez in the drawings – portray football by putting it in front of a game of mirrors, transforming the story of Beni Castanera, representative of soccer players in a permanent and fruitless search for success, in a tragedy with many touches of humor; or vice versa. Castanera discovers Fali, a Zamora player who suffers a serious injury when he is about to triumph. Life will take both of them to situations they never imagined. And, along the way, the reader will meet numerous real characters who are part of the collective imagination of Spanish football – players, coaches, managers and journalists. An acidic and visually bold story in which all the vignettes make sense and whose script is full of depth charges. An ironic vision of the world of football and its protagonists in which the fans will find accurate references to many of the evils that affect contemporary football.
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