In 2015, the Only won his fifth Champions. Susana Guaschfollowing the declarations of Jose Mourinho and in an interview with Emilio Butragueo In the month of August of that year, he endorsed a question that, as much as it is now denied, was on the minds of many Madridistas: Finish Messi’s Bara beating Madrid in European Cups?
Butragueo was surprised by the question, at the time
He didn’t want to suppress a mischievous smile, as if he knew something the rest of us didn’t. In ‘butragueesque’ language, that staging was quite a
profeca
:
“It’s not easy, huh? We have 10, they have five…”
, said El Buitre, the epitome of prudence in a Madrid key. Perhaps don Emilio knew, sensed or simply dreamed what was to come. And what was to come was
three Champions in three years
all of them after resounding butts culs, with the glorious icing of
a fourth Orejona four years later
, always without Bara being able to get close to the top in all that time. In fact, getting further and further away, even to the outskirts of the
Europa League
con
Messi
already in the
PSG
, also a recurring victim of the white dragon. Messi changed the history of Bara. What could not be suspected is that, after exhibitions like that double in the
It’s gray
in the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions League 10-11, Madrid was also going to change. Mourinho himself, who suffered the deep bite of that defeat and some others, grabbed the white club by the lapels,
Florentino
went to the market with everything (and was almost always right) and the
It’s gray
raised the bar of the demand to return it to the height of the history of Madrid. The white reaction to the tyranny of La Pulga was
frantic
. devastating. Seven years later, the distance of five Champions between Madrid and Bara is now nine. Not even Messi, the best player in the history of Bara, could alter the numbers of the cast because, no matter how beautiful the movie tells us
reality is always stronger than the story
.
