Real Madrid have just won the first semifinal of the Champions League 3-0 to their neighboring rival, Atletico Madrid. His number 7, Cristiano Ronaldo, made all three goals again. The match was bad. It could be said that this has been said almost everything. One could also not say. Above all, because this is a game too long.
This match did not start tonight, it did not end tonight. This party comes from a long time ago: it has already happened and continues to happen, like the winds, like nightmares. It has been playing for more than a century, in so many forms, with so many men, with so many shirts, wars and dictatorships and euphoria and republics.
But this same, in the last sections of the Champions League, with more or less the same players, played for the first time in 2014, and Real Madrid was tied to Atletico Madrid in the 93rd minute and later He won. And he was champion of Europe. He was replayed in 2015 and Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid with a goal in two games. And he was a semifinalist in Europe. He was again played in 2016, and Real Madrid won Atletico Madrid in penalties. And he was champion of Europe.
Never, throughout the history of the Champions League, had a city captured her in this way. This party never stops and is, for poor Atletico, the real nightmare. Tonight, of course, he lost it again. It was won by a rich team, expensive, and the most expensive and richest player: he won the Madrid and his Vedette Ronaldo.
The Madrid has an annual budget of 690 million dollars; The Aleti, of 290. The budget of Aleti is enormous: much more than that of all the Argentine teams together, for example; The budget of Madrid is tremendous. And then, on the court, it shows.
They are two opposing and complementary teams: Madrid is defined because it knows how to win as it is; The Aleti is defined because he knows how to lose with a certain height. They are two ways to understand football. Madrid buys the best players: it has formed a group of soloists. The Aleti can not buy so much: he has tried, for some years, that the collective replaced the figures. Simeone is a confirmed illusionist: he produces, at times, the mirage that his team half expensive can play equally well, win equally. But, in general, the illusion dissolves when the decisive moment arrives. That is: against Real Madrid.
