Real Madrid no flag

It has been over a week of classic Spanish football and spoke at length about the vicissitudes of the game, but there was something that caught my attention in the Madrid team: how in the heat of battle, when bad things came given and the many piled up against the flag, the white team had no relation to cling to, someone that fueled the spirits and cast forth the team on his back after turning the tables. Yes, it was Casillas in an effort that many mistook for peat, but was it enough?

Raul's last years at the club were splashed white controversy over its ownership, but since its debut in Zaragoza in the distant 1994, the current player of Schalke began a rapid ascent on the basis of goals and successes to become the club Reference , embodying all those values that have always heard of the Madrid story: Di Stefano, Gento, Puskas, Muñoz, Amancio, Del Bosque, Pirri, Santillana, Camacho, the Quinta del Vulture, Hugo Sanchez and, of course, Johnny. People who gave everything for a shirt, who identified with a shield and values that once made it great for the club and defending to the death, with dignity, in the field. It was Raúl, a victim of the inexorable passage of time, which was recently joined in this task and which has just inherited his legacy.

We have recently seen a golden era for the club in which the white team won three Champions League after many years of absence. Hierro, Roberto Carlos, Redondo, Michel Salgado, Ivan Helguera and Morientes, all led by Raul, might not have as much bombast as luster and players who have gone through the club in recent years, but not just jumped into the field of play win a game, but to defend a shield and a shirt. Not only that, but it gave the dress a recognizable identity for new players who came to the club. They achieved all or most of the successes of that era and his trail was so enduring that neither the arrival of the renewal in the template prevented them from winning a European Cup again, because that team spirit was still intact.

Things have changed and it is easy to see it when we see that in the first team of Real Madrid, the third longest serving player at the club's Mahamadou Diarra, with little weight on the team with four seasons. Not many homegrown populate the Madrid dressing room at present, however, not only people from the quarry can be identified with the idiosyncrasies of a club: the above mentioned, but Raul left the factory white and it was not an obstacle to that group of players give it everything for the team.

The current players, as athletes who are leaving the field to win and be competitive, but gives the feeling that something was missing. This does not mean that over time Özil, Khedira or Di Maria, to give examples, come to fully identify with the club he played, but we need continuity, patience and not let emergencies from becoming protagonists. The fan goes to the field to watch their team and if possible to see him win as is desirable. Want to see good players on the pitch, footballers by worthwhile to pay a ticket, yes, but also wants to see players who identify themselves and identify with the club, as it is, among other things, the assets of a crowd that follows his team week after week.

The case of Madrid is a clearly palpable than it is living football in recent years, football cold and distant, perhaps a reflection of our times, where the values of a club is lost between the imperative need to win at all costs and above all else. This is what happens when money disfiguring envelops everything at will. So cases like Barcelona are more valued where people fight for the club each week jump on the field. An oasis in the desert where the battles are settled in a scenario where no identity and there are almost no banners.

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