The enormous title of Real Madrid in the Champions League, the 14th crown of ‘Your Majesty’, has, among many, the value of putting an end to a lot of ‘wagons’ and prejudices that have become fashionable and fashionable in football .
The 1-0 win over Liverpool in the final, the silver trophy, another slap in the face of the ‘processes’ and patatín and patatán, within the framework of the extreme cult and the maximum defense of the coaches.
But Carlo Ancelotti, who made his legend bigger, barely reached the coaching bench a year ago and not only lifted the Champions League, but won the Spanish League. In a year nothing more.
Marcelo Cezán, friend and fellow presenter of Bravíssimo –the main program of Citytv, an EL TIEMPO channel–, an unparalleled fanatic who understands the game well, a frequent and rubbery amateur soccer player in love with the ball, told me on Twitter: “It is a total process : Casemiro, Modric, Kross, Benzema, Carvajal have been playing together for years”.
He, like so many others who wrote to me in this regard, fell into the trap, because with so many ‘wagons’ they have confused him. It’s not his fault.
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They use that term ‘process’ to talk about the time it takes for coaches to find a way to play and achieve results. It does not refer to the campus. For example, they praise the ‘process’ of Alberto Gamero in Millonarios because the team plays with the same pattern and fights for the top of the League, despite the many changes of players it has had.
In his almost two and a half years of management, the DT has changed goalkeeper seven times (Faríñez, Martínez, Vargas, Bonilla, Ruiz, Moreno and Montero) and has had to replace, among others, Román, Paz, De Los Santos , Banguero, Carrillo, Giraldo, Eliser Quiñones, Duque, Salazar, Montoya, Riavaldo, Del Valle, Arango, Zapata, Ortiz, Mojica, Uribe, Perlaza… It has changed almost twice from eleven, see?
By the way, Ancelotti and Real Madrid end up with another ‘cart’: the manager is not the most important thing in football. The most important thing is the footballers. Without needing to piss cologne like Guardiola or a tactical and strategic translator like Bielsa, Ancelotti revalidated his excellent squad by making logic, choosing the best players he had, putting them in their natural positions and without ordering them to do what they don’t know how to do. As simple as that. A guy with group management and healthy leadership that allows the real stars to shine: his cracs.
Ancelotti, the only champion coach in the five major European leagues and the one who has won the most Champions –four, two with Milan and two with Madrid–, directs from common sense, without eccentricities or far-fetched rhetoric.
This Real Madrid title demolishes other ‘wagons’, these with a hypocritical and self-righteous whiff. One, against the defensive game and, another, the intransigence of possession of the ball as the only way to play. Defending and counterattacking long, Real Madrid won the final against Liverpool, with only 46 percent of possession.
And before that he had dispatched in epic comebacks previous champions Chelsea with the same formula and just 42.5 per cent average possession, mighty PSG with 43 per cent average possession and revered Manchester City with an average 42 percent with the ball.
This magnificent title for Madrid is also a slap on the forehead to what is now called modern football, of overpressure on the rival field at supersonic speed.
Real Madrid is not a perfect team, of course, and that is another ‘cart’ that falls: their goalkeeper, Courtois, was the great figure of the final, as the pillar of a defensive plan, despite the ‘tactical cart’ that if a goalkeeper is a figure, It’s because the defense is lousy. As if the goalkeeper was not the first defender.
The enormous title of Real Madrid in the Champions League is a slap in the face to a pile of stories, verses and carts that have become fashionable and fashionable in football, with their technocratic hyperlanguage of overanalysis. Ah: not to mention that the youngsters Modric (36), Benzema (34), Kross (32), Casemiro (30)… won it!
A lot of ‘cart’ that Real Madrid distorted.
Meluk tells him…
GABRIEL MELUK
Sports Editor
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