The adrenaline of Real Madrid

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Real Madrid works like a winning machine that from time to time concedes a defeat —and sometimes a draw as well, as in their last match against Shakhtar— to show that they are also imperfect, an essential condition to guarantee the unpredictability of football, to have the respect of the opponent and increase the legend of king of the Champions.

The heroic humanizes as much as the vulnerability as long as the defeats are partial and therefore corrected and denied by the final triumph as usually happens with Madrid.

He has already won so many European Cups (14) that he is now promoting a tournament by elevation like the Super League, which is not very well known how it will affect everyone's tournament, which is the League.

Florentino has metabolized modern madridismo by the same rule of three that the Bernabéu built in the fifties the white myth with a personalism that simplifies any organization chart, facilitates the control of the entity and makes explicit who is the only valid interlocutor in relations with the administration Spanish sports, European or with FIFA.

The president is powerful, he governs and makes it known that he rules in the most insignificant details, luckily for Madrid.

Even the bad news is positive, as happened for example with the departure of Casemiro.

Wherever there was a structural problem, Madrid saw a temporary solution for Tchouameni.

Even the failed signing of Mbappé became a profitable decision after the player's bad life with Paris Saint-Germain.

No footballer, not even Sergio Ramos, Cristiano Ronaldo or Casillas, is above the president, and of course the club, in the same way that coaches come and go without intermingling the foundations of the Bernabéu.

No one remembers Zidane's goodbye anymore after a blank season because Madrid won again with Ancelotti.

The choice of coach obviously also corresponds to Florentino and therefore he was right to recover the Italian coach to manage a squad that is half young and half veteran while waiting to see how far Haaland will go in Guardiola's City.

The fans have already been told in any case that the Norwegian's link with Manchester has clauses that do not rule out that one day he can reach the Bernabéu.

There is no rush in Madrid.

Now is the time to show off Rodrygo, Vinicius or Valverde.

None seemed like a transcendent footballer when they were presented and promoted and instead they have become decisive players in the League and the Champions League.

One more reason to calculate any hasty criticism against Madrid.

Neither does age affect Modric (37 years old) or Kroos (32) and much less Benzema (34), the player Florentino always believed in and who he now wants to see crowned with the Ballon d'Or. to Madrid while Courtois has denied his opponents after sometimes having a hard time remembering that he also played for Atlético.

The football of a lifetime consists, after all, in having a goalkeeper who saves and doesn't score his own goals, a striker who scores goals and a coach who puts in the best eleven and doesn't spoil the team —like Van Basten would say.

There is surely no better plan to popularize a club that intimidates when you look at the Bernabéu box.

The fans play to see their team win and not to process the game as seen at the Camp Nou.

The white story refers to the victory and the azulgrana to the style since the Cruyff player preferred Barça to Madrid.

This is how the greatness and rivalry of the classic that arrives at the Bernabéu is understood.

Although the azulgrana have only conceded one goal, the critics agree that Madrid is a more solid, more consistent and more reliable team, second by goal difference compared to Barça.

The absence of Courtois, on the other hand, encourages a Barça practically eliminated from the Champions League and which lately has the habit of winning in Madrid as an act of faith and vindication of its artistic vein expressed in Ronaldinho or Messi.

Last season he didn't even need Rosario: 0-4.

Madrid took it as an accident and ended up winning the League and the Champions League.

The machine has patented the most Homeric victories to the astonishment of Europe.

No one knows the white adrenaline trick.

"Madrid is always there," Guardiola concluded.

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