In a recent interview, the trainer of the Sporting of Gijón, Abelardo Fernández, reveals how was born his nickname of "pitu" and the one of the trainer of the FC Barcelona, Luis Enrique Martínez. All has to see with his years of infancy and youth in the city of Gijón

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Next Wednesday they will see the faces in The Molinón two teams that, by reasons totally different, need the three points. Sporting Of Gijón and FC Barcelona confront in a duel where the fight by the descent and the leave almost sentenced the League BBVA are very present. However, this clash hides after himself several histories of reunion like which will suffer Luis Enrique that will go back by first time since it is trainer to the field where bred and did footballer, and also will see the faces with his intimate fellow of the infancy Abelardo Fernández.

Both, face to face in the party, are big fellow since they knew in the school Elisburu. Both are of 1970 and only carry 19 days of differences. From small have gone together to all the sides, first playing in the team of five-a-side football in the Xeitosa to happen, finally, to the inferior categories of the Sporting. ?We lived to two streets, went to the same school. And we have done almost all the together career. It is incredible, do not think that there are a lot of cases like this. From the nine years until today?, it explains Abelardo, in an extract of conversation that publishes the newspaper "Sport".

It was then, it explains Abelardo, when they were born the nicknames of "the pitu" and "Struggle", put by the own trainers one to the another. ?Well, I was quite pequeñín and Luis called me ?pitufín?, and from here I remained me in ?pitu?. Afterwards already I hit the estirón, but remained the of the ?pitu?. I called him ?I struggle? Because in that period played in the Sporting ?I struggle? Flores, a Mexican, and said him that it resembled he?, it finish explaining the trainer rojiblanco.

A history the one of the "pitu" and "Struggle" that it also found parallelisms when ambo debuted in the first team gijonés almost at the same time. First it was the central, in front of the Madrid, on 3 September 1989. Later, Luis Enrique in front of the Málaga. ?He was little time in the first team of the Sporting, put us in the UEFA and he did 15 goals. Only it had 20 years and carried it to him the Madrid?, it comments Abelardo.

Later, the defender would finish fichando by the FC Barcelona in 1994. Two years later, Luis Enrique would finish his agreement with the Real Madrid and ficharía by the Barça, doing one of the most sounded changes of the Spanish football during this period. Already in the Barça went back to be together until both withdrew , Abelardo in the Alavés and "Struggle" in the Barça. However, and although his ways did not go back to cross since they decided to do technical, keep on being intimate friends that call weekly. A reunion, therefore, that will be very sentimental for the Barcelona trainer.