I’ll tell you and if you believe it, great. Otherwise, bad luck. I know that all the culés will believe me. With that, I have enough.
This weekend there is MotoGP Grand Prix in Le Mans (France)one of the most legendary circuits in world motorsport, so yesterday, mid-afternoon, I got on a Vueling plane heading to Paris and, from the Charles De Gaulle airportrental car to that curious little French town, which is 208 kilometers from the capital.
Before I got on the plane, he called me my friend Jordi Tomás, I have told you about him more than once, a sick culé. He had to take a plane to Bilbao. “I think I’ll leave tomorrow and tonight I’ll stay to watch Bayern eliminate Real Madrid,” he told me. “Do me a favor, well, another: go to Bilbao tonight, come on. Forget Bayern. “Real Madrid wins, as always, in injury time.” I will not comment, out of respect for the children, on my friend’s comment upon arriving in Sondika. No, no, I better not tell him.
The point is that Jesus Robledo, my photographer friend from Repsol and the Italian agency FARO, picked me up in the rental car and we began the journey to Le Mans, just as the Bernabéu game was starting, which I was watching in the passenger seat. One thing I have to tell you: until a year ago, Jesus, ‘Porrita’ For all of us, I didn’t know who he was Leo Messiwith that I tell you everything.
Patapam!, the usual
The fact is that Real Madrid, in fact, was losing in the 80th minute of the game and Jesús turned his head towards me for two seconds and said, with that San Fernando accent what’s wrong with it: “Hey, they have already eliminated Real Madrid”. And, in those that Carlo Ancelotti it occurs to him to take out Joselu to field. “Now, it comes when he turns Madrid around,” I tell my driver. “But if there is nothing left”. “Jesus, for Real Madrid, ten minutes means a world, a whole day, a life”. And patapam! Poor Robledo, despite not knowing a thing about soccer, was stunned.
MADRID, 05/08/2024.- Real Madrid forward, Joselu, celebrates the second goal of the Madrid team during the match corresponding to the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich today, Wednesday. the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, in Madrid. EFE / Juanjo Martín / JUANJO MARTIN
But wait, wait. We arrive at the little house we have rented in Le Mans and our other two friends from the World Cup welcome us, two other great photographers, Alejandro Ceresuelawho works for brothers Marc and Alex Márquezy Alex FarinelliJesús’ partner at FARO.
“You won’t believe what happened to us, Emilio, impossible to believe,” he tells me. ‘Cere’. “In the 80th minute, when Real Madrid was losing 0-1, I told Farinelli, ‘look how the bets are.’ And, for one euro, they gave you 8.50. I told him, put 100 euros in favor of Real Madrid, Alex, put 100 euros. ‘But if there are 10 minutes left, you’re crazy or what!’ Alex told me. In total, he has only put in 10 euros. It will be stupid!”
Another big defeat
Real Madrid always wins. It is not like Joan Laporta’s Barça, which is even eliminated, at home, by the Olympiakos and stays no basketball Final Fourwhere it will be, again, Saruns Jasikeviciusrecently fired from the Palau Blaugrana, with the Fenerbahce. By the way, the Palau was silent, with Laporta in the box and not a whistle. Anesthesia works wonders.
Well, what we were going for, Real Madrid, which is on its way to turning Florentino Pérez into the new Santiago Bernabéu (if it isn’t, now!), he starred last night, in case you didn’t know, neither you, nor Jordi, nor Jesús, nor Alejandro, nor Alex, in his 12th comeback of this season 12!: 1-3 Almería , 2-1 Getafe, 2-1 Real Sociedad, 2-3 Naples, 1-2 Barça, 4-2 Naples, 2-3 Unión Berlin, 5-3 Atlético, 3-2 Almería, 1-2 Las Palmas, 3 -2 Barça and 2-1 Bayern Munich. Shall I repeat it? No, better not.
Real Madrid players celebrate their victory at the end of the UEFA Champions League semi final second leg football match between Real Madrid CF and FC Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP) / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU
When you do that, let Jordi know it, let Jesus know it, let Alejandro know it (no, no, Alejandro did know it, that’s why he wanted to bet a fortune), let him know it Alex incredulously, it’s not by chance. There is no luck, nor flukes, in the comebacks of the white team, capable of turning a footballer (sorry, or not) like Joselu in the armor bearer of God, in the San Pedro of football.
That is why, when in mid-December 2020, Laporta hung an immense billboard on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, in front of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, 50 meters long by 20 meters wide, with the phrase “Want to see you again”Jordi Tomas sent me a WhatsApp, which I still have saved, with the reproduction of that banner and two phrases: “Win the elections, but we are going to eat this banner with potatoes, you’ll see.”
And yes, with potatoes and a lot of ketchup. While Real Madrid continues winning, Barça continues losing games, titles, money, credibility, image, reputation, present, future… So much so that Laporta or his ideologue (no, no, it was Laporta) could have come up with something else twisted, original and real: Looking forward to seeing you again…winning, in added time.
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2024-05-08 23:01:42
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