Raul, the relentless fight against fate

Within hours of the match between Schalke 04 and Manchester United want to pay a small tribute that surely must be one of the protagonists of these Champions League semifinals. In any other year it would be in mourning on Wednesday but the fate of those things football wanted to Raúl end up in the rows of a German who, thanks to the tireless struggle of the '7 'has been a gap between the four best teams in the continent for the first time in its long history. Raul Gonzalez is veteran, is leadership, experience and quality is, is like running, not throwing in the towel. Raul is overcome, even when everyone gave him as a finish.

Raul has know what star nights of glory with his new team. It has become his 33 years at the front more in the form of Schalke, who lost the confidence the club has rediscovered his love with that kid who openly tried it all to the best goalkeepers. Your age is not a problem when the head was still responsive. What summer looked like a strange leap, a leap where to look below as above, has become the little big jump. Has proven to be a good giant, without feet of clay, which does not break down ever, and whose award was being given a Champions League you know of a lifetime and that has had the privilege to raise in his successful career .

"He had never scored at Bayern and I did in the Cup never won at San Siro and Inter marking. And I've never visited Wembley, which together with Maracana stadium is one of the ... would be the milk. " Declarations of someone who has reinvented their world and lives of wonder in it. Today it is facing a fierce fight in these conflicts: Manchester United. In the retina of the amateur is that goal for over a decade in which Redondo conjured up an impossible heels ending assistance to Raul, who scored at Old Trafford to global wonder.'s summoned, so if you see a yellow one could miss the return leg at the Theatre of Dreams, although known, is capable of risking their presence in the return leg if it is for the good of the team.

For a moment, in the land of dreams, Raul is a hypothetical final. At least, it would be deserved, the perfect one-year transition apparently has become the resurrection. There could be measured to Barcelona or Real Madrid. "Right now I can not find the words. If that happens, it would be something ... more than special. [...] I hope that is the Madrid ... well actually I do not know. It would be ... strange, very strange. If I warrant that we will win, I'd rather play against Barcelona. If not, against Madrid. " Certainly more than reasonable, the top scorer in the history of the Champions League tonight, along with the inside of a week, hopes to rewrite a golden page for a destination that few thought they would.

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