Arturo Vidal dreamed of playing for Real Madrid, but his career took him to clubs where he developed a great hatred for the Blancos • Tonight in the Champions League (22:00) Chilean will have another chance to prove how wrong they were
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It is hard to believe that there is a player at Inter who wants to beat Real Madrid tonight more than Arturo Vidal.
Of course all the players want three points that will keep the Narazzi European season alive, but the Chilean does not just want to.
He desires this victory, fantasizes about it, owes it to him.
Vidal has his reasons.
The first is professional and depends on the importance of tonight's game, and the following must be added: In the last two years he played for Barcelona and was linked with the Catalan club, previously burned by the Blancos as a player for Bayern Munich, and tonight he can become the only player in history to score against Spain. And Juventus).
To a large extent, it can be said that after 13 games against Real Madrid in a variety of teams and settings, Vidal hates the Blancos from the bottom of his soul.
Interestingly, it used to be the other way around.
According to the biography written by Nicholas Ola, Vidal grew up as a Real Madrid fan.
In a book called "Vidal - His Story" there is a chapter called "The Road to Madrid", where there are testimonies from friends, coaches and acquaintances who tell about the Chilean's dream.
Vidal, it is written, adored Ivan Samurano and wanted to follow in his footsteps.
"He always told me that his ambition was to play for Real," said Nicolas Pissarro, Kolo Colo's winger, and in 2011 - when he signed for Juventus - Vidal even said it in his own words.
"Moving to Yuba is another step on the way to Real," he declared when he arrived in Turin, and was forced to apologize immediately.
His friends say that the desire to wear white was real and strong, and in 2014 he almost got there according to media reports, but Florentino Perez chose Tony Cross and the match did not succeed.
From that moment, as the saying goes, it became clear to Vidal that the shortest distance in the world is the one that separates love from hate.
The ground is bubbling again
The first meeting with the Blancos at that sensitive time actually went smoothly for Vidal.
Yuba's connection was excellent in the pair of encounters against Real in the Champions League semi-finals in 2015, and also won.
It was these next two against Real, as a Bayern Munich player, that sparked the hatred.
In the quarterfinals in 2017, he experienced a variety of emotions when in the first game he scored and missed Pendel in a 1: 2 loss, and in return was eliminated with a 1: 2 advantage before his team was defeated in overtime 4: 2 after several borderline refereeing decisions.
Vidal was very angry and tweeted: "Such a robbery can not be in the Champions League."
A year later he was furious at a dubious penalty that allowed Real to overtake his former team Juventus in the quarter-finals, a victory that arranged for him another encounter with the Blancos in the semi-finals.
The injured Chilean may not have played, but was very active in the nets.
"The revenge is served cold!"
Tweeted before the games, and when Marcelo's hand in the box disappeared from the referee added;
"Once again, Pendel from # $ # $ Yin!".
In both cases Real moved on, Vidal was left with the feeling that Zidane's team had twice, and not rightly, prevented him from winning the Champions League.
With this charge, Vidal arrived in Barcelona two years ago, a stronghold of hatred for Real.
During his time at Camp Nou he gained more experiences, and three weeks ago took care to warm up the atmosphere well when Inter were hosted at the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium;
"I will play against them as if I were still a Barcelona player and I hope to win and celebrate for Barcelona fans."
Unfortunately this did not happen.
Inter lost 3: 2 and he was far from his peak.
Blancos fans took advantage of this to tease and sting, which brings us to tonight’s game as the ground is bubbling again.
Perhaps in the face of an injured and missing Real, the Chilean will finally be able to give his ex-girlfriend a cold revenge.