WITHOUT CAPTAIN ARMBAND by Diego Torres
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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there because they carry the captains armband, captains because they have political power within the club, captains because premiums negotiated with the president and captains because they are heard by his teammates in the locker room. Fernando Redondo belonged to the latter category. Xabi Alonso is poised to follow suit. Last Sunday, when the referee awarded the penalty on Cristiano Ronaldo in the final minutes Madrid-Villarreal, Four cameras recorded a memorable episode.
"Let me throw it to me, Xabi told Cristiano, who was heading towards the penalty spot with the ball.
"No, I want to throw me. "Let me
.
"But I want to be top scorer.
"And I still have not made my first goal for Madrid. So let me.
Xabi
That was how it was with the ball and scored his first goal for the club. Not easy. With the intention to pay a massive tribute to Raul, who had just entered the field, the north end of the Bernabeu, just over the goal, shouting: "Ra-ul Ra-ul, Ra-ul! ". The people called him throw the first captain. The most powerful player in the club until recently. Xabi was deaf and focused on the ball and Diego López. He shot, scored, but The referee ordered repeat. The audience was: "Ra-ul, Ra-ul, Ra-ul!". Xabi settled the ball again and take the penalty ordered against everything. Against Villarreal, against the public, against raulismo and against the greed of the Christian symbol of the great project of Florentino Perez.
aware of it or not, the gesture of Tolosa was a huge outburst of self-assertion. A message to all levels of Real Madrid in mind that the team has a new hierarchy. And you have to jump through hoops. That will send the ball like a missile, halfway up, stuck in the bottom left of Diego Lopez for the second time, capped his speech with a resounding success. Arbeloa and Raul ran to congratulate him. Cristiano cursed to himself. Xabi
has 1,505 passing in this league. Its activity is unparalleled in Madrid and Spain is only surpassed by Xavi Hernandez, who finds more support thanks to Barca's style. Madrid leaders were convinced that Xabi is the rudder. On a computer designed to shine the individualities, the midfielder is such a rare and essential. The coach, Manuel Pellegrini, have questions about almost everything in the midline less than the rate of the red beard. "It has a collective sense to test any vanity," a leader that "there are players like Cristiano, helping the team from their individual talents. Xabi puts his genius to plan group and is a leader in measuring that leader is one who, in addition to fulfilling its own responsibility, has a broader view. "
There are three kinds of players, hunters, collectors and managers. Xabi belongs to the latter category, which is also the most intellectual. You need to have some obsession with the case material, certain qualifying effort, a gift to put each kind in their respective box to play with success the functions of midfield. Xabi has those rare virtues. The same in the grocery store, where it is able to classify a collection of peppers Ezpeleta, Piquillo, Anglet, chilli de Tolosa or goat horns, which in the field, where he organizes the game short in length, the foot space, flat, warp, back, forward, fast, with brakes, outside or inside. No pepper that is unable to label or the tactical situation that can not apply the correct permit.
Despite its importance, the work of Xabi in this Madrid has been more or less attention until now. On Sunday pounced on Christian and had a little chat with him before the world. Now the world knows that the guy with the red beard has taken a step forward.
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