Isco and Real Madrid will meet again, the first time at the Benito Villamarín (4:15 p.m., Movistar LaLiga), just over 13 months after their last reunion in a situation antagonistic to that experienced by the player from Malaga in Sevilla. Two months after that match, the midfielder would leave the discipline after coming to blows with Monchi, the club’s sporting director, as he told in an exclusive interview with MARCA.
“Isco is motivated to continue trying to perform at the level he is doing, regardless of the opponent he faces. Being in Madrid for eight years is already a merit, and having left there does not make him your enemy. He is currently playing at a very good level and hopefully tomorrow we will see him at his best level against a great rival,” explained Manuel Pellegrini in the preview of the match to try to downplay the importance.
That’s three more points… and although the coach believes that having spent 8 years at the white club will not ‘affect’ the player before he starts the ball rolling, the reality is very different. And although Isco and Betis were love at first sight… Isco and Real Madrid were the greatest love story ever told. In football, as in life, you end up returning to the place where you were once happy and, for Isco, his head will take him back to the time when he defended the white shield while terrifying Europe with a football that Real Madrid fans completely fell in love with. . Once he gets the ball rolling, the man from Malaga will not hesitate to show the greatness of Benito Villamarín, his playground so far this season.
“It is a motivation as we face all rivals, of course with greater obligations, but always with the mentality that being a different game, it is not special, neither for me nor for Isco. It does not give us a higher degree of demand or motivation. We are involved in working with Betis, we have no problem with Real Madrid and we want to win it,” concluded the coach.
A white lie about a footballer who has gone from ostracism to marveling (once again) the world of football. Because Isco, who worked alone with a personal trainer waiting for an offer that would convince him and who did not hesitate to pick up the Engineer’s glove, what he wants most is to demonstrate to the king (the match poster refers to the novel ‘La tabla de Flandes’ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte) that his football had never gone away and that you only had to trust in a footballer who has won 5 Champions Leagues. In other words, show your ex that life is going very well without his company… and that you have ended up finding love again.
Carlo Ancelotti: “Isco has given something to football”
Carlo Ancelotti, who knows perfectly well the quality of his former pupil’s boots, could not leave aside the romanticism produced by Real Madrid’s reunion with Isco, a footballer who spent 9 seasons and won 19 titles in white. “I have seen him, he is playing very well, I am happy that he is returning to his level. I think he is a player who has contributed something to football. He has had difficult times, but now he is fine. “He is one of the players we have to control well,” said the coach.
So things are, The new chapter of crossed lives will help Isco to once again touch the hearts of some white fans who once enjoyed their football that some wanted to label as ‘lazy’… and in which few rivals could find the key to take the ball from their feet. In MARCA he stripped himself completely naked to explain everything that had happened and, above all, he made it clear that he was eager to show again that what he knew how to do was play football. Today is Isco day.
2023-12-09 10:00:40
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