For the youngest of today Txopo will not be very well known, and you may find it curious that on the cover of the book the image of a porter of Athletic (a chrome) appears. The truth is that Arostegi tells us in this book a story set in 1975, in which, although indirectly, the porter Iribar plays a very important role.

“On January 17, 1975, I learned that Hugo, one of my best friends, was about to die. I remember the date perfectly. That day I turned ten.” This is how Arostegi addresses the story of this book, a story narrated in the first person and with a ten-year-old narrator, the boy, as the protagonist. The sadness and sadness that Jon feels when he meets Hugo’s are connected with the desire to visit his friend. So, Andoni will go with Txiru to Cruces Hospital to see her friend: “I was leaner. The skin was disluded and the eyes lost their bright glow.”

The reader, by the tone of the book's report, can perceive the presence of death, the loss of friends, but also the courage and innocence of children.

When Hugo greets his friends, he says: “My dream was to be like Iribar, the goalkeeper of Athletic, and it gives me a bit of a shame to die without knowing him. I'm sure he's a good man."

The three kids come out with their heads in the hospital, leaving their friend so serious, and they move to give Hugo a joy or a poem, until they start making their dream come true. Hugo has to meet Iribar.

And from there, even in that situation and context, it seems that the author introduces us to an adventure novel. How to get out of Hugo's hospital and take him to Lezama (the protagonists are the children, that is, they have little money, and we are also in 1975).

The reader is trapped in this adventure of the children, who crumble with a point of despair and realism in their intentions, who have stayed in nothing when leaving the hospital. Their parents, even those of Hugo, instead of getting angry, thank them for the moment of joy they have created in the child. Jon, Andoni, Txiruk and Sara have another idea. For the Iribar himself to visit Hugo, for this they will have to reach the goalkeeper and explain what happens to Hugo and the desire of the boy.

Gaizka Arostegi has already taught us his ability to tell stories and adventures, and on this occasion he manages to catch the reader in a novel full of feelings and vicissitudes. Feelings of all kinds, loss of a friend, but also joy for love, despair or achievement. And all of this in a whirlwind full of facts, a whirlwind that, despite not going well, is pulling the strings until the goal is achieved. A whirlwind of actions and feelings.