Harvest of 97, more specifically 45 days after Matthias Sammer lifted the first and only Champions League in the history of Borussia Dortmund, Iñaki María Avial was born in Madrid; aware that that summer, without Dollarcopa or World Cup, would be perfect not to deprive his parents of browsing a succulent Chile - Ivory Coast. If we add to this that as a child I watched the chapters of Oliver and Benji even messing up the VHS, that he was tearing his pants at knee height for doing tackles on concrete at recess or that he made custom veneers on Ancelotti's AC Milan, we discovered that his vocation was clearly football. Football without borders, international and plural football.

Fate wanted journalism to be his profession since he graduated in 2021 from the UCM, although his eagerness to communicate, mainly football, came much earlier. He undertook his own projects such as Rehearsed Play , is one of the co-founders of Editorial Puskas and currently collaborates with foreign media such as Podcast Match (USA) or W Radio (Mexico). One of these so-called panenkites today in the world of Twitter Football , always willing to analyze the sport beyond absurd controversies.