The facts are more important than the journalistic report that explains them, but we wouldn't be remembering that today marks forty years since Barça won the championship in Valladolid if it weren't for Puyal shouting "Urruti, I love you!" over Radio Barcelona.
Urruti had saved a penalty from Hugo Sánchez at Camp Nou the month before and was a goalkeeper brimming with personality, who laughed at the danger. So Puyal had a solid foundation when he decided to bet everything on his intuition: if anyone could stop that unfair penalty that stood between Barça and La Liga, it would be Urruti. That's why the genius of the shout began to take shape a few seconds before the kick, because the announcer created an expectation ("Look, if I could catch him, Urruti...") that maintained a glimmer of hope against the Spanish refereeing inadequacy. And once the penalty was saved, the shout goes down in journalism history because the announcer is able to capture the collective sentiment with a short sentence: it only has one subject and one verb. Urruti, I love you because we can sing La Liga this afternoon and because I haven't made a mistake risking that you would stop it.
The radio hype that day is explained by the fact that Barça hadn't won the league in eleven years, because it was the first championship broadcast in Catalan, and because, for the last time in history, a championship-deciding match could only be broadcast live on the radio, so the emotions of that afternoon were lost on the television. Today, 40 years ago, we still cherish that memory.
