On a plane that could take him, for example, to Barcelona to face Leo Messi's Barça, Marc Bertran (Pobla de Segur, 1982) would study. "I have a client friend who reminds me that I was the only one on the plane with the books. We lost a lot of time on the trips, and I wanted to make the most of them. I spent five years in Tenerife, where every two weeks we had to make quite long journeys," Bertran recalls in a conversation with ARA. "Mendilibar, my coach when I played for Osasuna, would sometimes ask me: 'Are you studying for exams, right?' Some days I'd stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning, studying, and he'd say it showed because I was more tired and distracted the next day." But it never goes away.