Two years before that”-following his knee injuries-“nobody believed I could play football again. “Horrible!” he bellows. “I apologize to all the mothers who saw their kids make the same haircut.” But, as he explains, there was a method to that tonsorial madness. “I saw my teammates and asked, ‘Do you like it? I wan,t barca to have a replacement for iniesta. Atlas president Pedro Portilla says the issue of security in Mexico is sometimes mentioned when the club negotiates with foreigner players, but that the lifestyle in Guadalajara in particular can actually attract players. Yet, I also discovered a marvelous truth: behind the cultural shields that we so often hide, we all share the same essential human nature.