The novel Els plans del Míster (Delicte, 2025), written over five years, focuses on Firmi, a struggling writer who hits rock bottom and is forced to turn to an old acquaintance: Mingo Prats, known as the Míster, a famous third-tier football coach.
The Míster, inspired by figures like César Luis Menotti, Helenio Herrera, or Xavi Agustí, is a genius of picaresque operating in run-down bars, where reckless plans and unethical behaviors are hatched. For Aguirre, football serves as an “open code” to discuss topics such as corruption, cheating, and the idolatry of success.
“"It is a loyalty that is not under discussion, and that comes before many other loyalties; it is very strange and still needs to be explained."
Humor is one of the pillars of the work, which adopts traits of the noir novel without falling into the genre's clichés. The author, who is a regular at the Delicte publishing house with titles like Els morts no parlen (2015), will present the book this Friday at Llibreria 22 in Girona, accompanied by journalist Jordi Grau and actor Miquel Torrent.
“"But there is one thing this man can never do: change football teams."
