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Raúl's European challenge

2020-08-15T07:58:12.047Z


Real Madrid's Youth A travels to Nyom this Saturday to face the Youth League crosses, a competition that the Whites have yet to win.


The king of Europe (yesterday Guardiola again referred to Madrid like that) still has a territory to conquer. The season ended for the first team, but not for La Fábrica, which has the opportunity to retaliate for the club for the elimination of Zidane's men. Juvenil A travels this Saturday to Nyon (Switzerland) to play the final rounds of the Youth League , the U-19 Champions that in the still short life of the tournament (it has been played since the 2013-2014 season) has resisted six generations of madridista homegrown players. At the seventh they want the charm to go. And with a mythical 7 at the helm, Raúl González Blanco, Youth A travels to the Helvetic town that houses the UEFA headquarters. The first obstacle, Juventus.

The coach has temporarily taken over the reins of Juvenil A. A challenge that represents a short parenthesis in his time at Castilla (which he will train again next season in a Second B still full of unknowns) to pilot the transition in the bench of the first white youth. Dani Poyatos has signed for Panathinaikos and his successor, Jorge Romero, was immersed in the playoff for promotion to Second B with Alcorcón B when the Madrid team began training on July 15.

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A choice, that of Raúl, of the utmost logic. On the 7th, he met many of the members of the European squad from his time at Juvenil B and some of the members of the Youth League team squad have been at his orders this season at Castilla : Chust, Marvin, Latasa or Antonio Blanco ...

In fact, the coach's namesake is one of the outstanding figures of the team. The Cordoba midfielder, European Under-17 and Under-19 champion and runner-up in the Under-17 world with La Rojita , has been one of Raúl's fixtures in the subsidiary. Attentive to his positioning, Blanco is skilled at stealing and has good hitting, qualities that he combined last season to sentence the return of the Copa del Rey Juvenil quarter-final against Barça with a goal from midfield. A luck that had already tried successfully (this time from his own field) in the League. Just in the last game before the break, he scored his only goal of the season in a heads-up with Coruxo goalkeeper Alberto.

Juventus awaits Raúl and his team in Switzerland on Sunday (18:00, #Vamos), in one of the two matches of the round of 16 that were pending to be played due to the pandemic . If Madrid beat the Bianconeri, on Wednesday 19 the rival in the quarterfinals would be the winner of Inter-Rennes. The semifinals are scheduled for Saturday the 22nd and the final, inhospitable territory for the whites, on Tuesday the 25th. All rounds are single game.

Madrid's roof in the youth Champions is the semifinals, which they reached on three occasions (13-14, 15-16 and 16-17). The last three seasons, the Whites have been eliminated by the same result against Benfica (in the semis of 16-17), Chelsea (quarters of 17-18) and Hoffenheim (eighth of 18-19). Raúl wants to knock him down and lift 'his' fourth Champions League .

The UEFA Youth League program

Round of 16

Sunday, August 16

15:00 Inter-Rennes
18:00 Juventus-Real Madrid

Quarter finals

Tuesday, August 18

15:00 Midtjylland-Ajax [A]
18:00 Dinamo Zagreb-Benfica [B]

Wednesday, August 19

15:00 Salzburg-Lyon [C]
18:00 Inter / Rennes v Juventus / Real Madrid [D]

Semifinals

Saturday, August 22

15:00 Winner B-Winner A
18:00 Winner C-Winner D

FINAL

Tuesday, August 25 (18:00)

Source: elparis

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