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Is Ancelotti the man? – The penultimate raulista alive

The bar that anti-Madridism sets for Real Madrid it is getting higher. Because that’s another one, the Antimadridistas Football Club he is more demanding with Real Madrid than the madridistas themselves. They are insatiable. It is never enough for them. Fourteen European Cups are not enough. Five Champions in nine years are not enough. The eleven semifinals in the last thirteen years have not fulfilled their ambitious aspirations. The antimadridistas always want Real Madrid to win more and more and more. Now the fifteenth. And then The Sixteenth. Her longing is like a bottomless pit. I think that Real Madrid, which is more sensible, hurts even less last night’s elimination from Madrid than anti-Madridism. If Real Madrid doesn’t win everything, it’s always a failure for anti-Madridismo, which, well thought about, doesn’t mean it speaks too highly of the rest of the teams.

The other day, for example, I heard Koke, the Atleti captain, say that they were closer to their goal, which was none other than finishing in the top four. And everyone was fine with it. There was a moment when it seemed that Cholo’s team could finish second (second!) in the League after having left the Champions League through the back door in a laughable qualifying group and also having been left out of the league. the Copa del Rey, and everyone applauded what a feat it would mean for a club that only has a budget of four hundred million euros and the highest paid coach in the world to end up behind Barça. Atleti, who is the third largest in Spain, is worth being second in the League but the anti-Madridistas, among whom by the way are many colchoneros, They think it’s a failure that Real Madrid only wins the Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup and reach another Champions League semifinal. The Madridistas, much more modest, don’t believe that Real Madrid’s season has been exactly the best in history, but neither is it the worst, but I already said that anti-Madridismo always wants more for Real Madrid, they never have enough.

Last night, after the debacle in Manchester, we scored Real Madrid’s season and also gave our opinion on if Ancelotti should follow the no and nobody suspended the team, which even collected a pair of eights, and we all said that the coach had earned the right to continue. But we are not the club and I am not Florentino and, after the 4-0, that debate is back on the streets: should Ancelotti continue? Has his season been good? They have won all possible titles in a year, this season they have won three, they have once again reached the European semifinals but, in return, in the League they have fallen alarmingly behind the most mediocre Barcelona of the last quarter of a century. If the team had fought the League until the end, it is likely that the Champions League semifinals would have weighed more, but by falling behind fourteen points and losing to City in such a pitiful way, everything is again quite open.

Yes, there is something certain in all this and it is that, at the conclusion of the cup final, Florentino, who is the one in charge, said that the debate on the continuity of Ancelotti did not exist. That is as true as yesterday Emilio Butragueño, who unfortunately acts as spokesperson for the club in ninety-nine percent of cases, did not dare to say yes or no or quite the opposite when asked by Mónica Marchante. I suppose that the Vulture would be afraid of releasing any inconvenience beyond his usual córcholis and jopelines but the truth is that the moment, precisely after such a painful elimination, was perfect to confirm that yes, indeed Ancelotti was going to continue as he was. the president had confirmed. But not.

In this situation, if Ancelotti continues to lead the team for the year that remains on his contract and, around the month of December, he does not take six or seven points from Barcelona in the League, the season will seem endless. It goes without saying that if he goes behind it will be a real torture. If Real Madrid usually doesn’t have time, someone who returns to work after a season without the League or the Champions League doesn’t even have seconds on the clock. And there are exceptional cases of Madrid coaches who They have continued after being left blank in the Champions League and in the League but I don’t remember anyone who has continued without winning any of those titles for two seasons. The balance of the football year for Real Madrid made by anti-Madridism could not be worse: only the Cup, the European Super Cup, the World Cup and the Champions League semifinals are not enough for the best sports club in history. Real Madrid’s, in general terms, is more benevolent but… is Ancelotti the man? Is the technician willing to make the transition between veterans and novices? And if he is not, then who is he? Those are the million dollar questions.

2023-05-18 18:12:36
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