The media counted Real Madrid's injuries in the past 18 games and came to a shocking conclusion.
Real Madrid had fallen into a vicious cycle of one injury in each of the past 18 games!
The shocking injury list coupled with the ups and downs were no longer invincible. Real Madrid was naturally surrounded by danger from the inside out.
At this time, a figure that made Calderón feel a chill in his heart and even directly hit his soul, causing a shudder from the depths of his heart, appeared again in the football circle after two and a half years!
Meeting was not necessarily always as good as missing.
On November 24, taking advantage of the anti-poverty charity match held by Zidane and Ronaldo in Morocco, the former Real Madrid president Florentino reunited with the two former Galactic Warriors. With Real Madrid in deep trouble, this caused all the witnesses of the "Galactica era" to sigh. It also caused the outside world to speculate whether this was the prelude for Florentino's return to the Bernabéu, which made the current Real Madrid president, Calderón, very unhappy.
The gathering of the three men was quite coincidental.
As the president of the ACS Group, Florentino was invited by a road construction tycoon in Morocco to spend a holiday with his family in the country.
After receiving the news, González, the president of Publisport21, the company that organized the charity match, invited Florentino to watch the match and meet with Zidane and Ronaldo before the match. The former Real Madrid president gladly agreed.
On the afternoon of the 24th, Florentino came to the hotel where the two superstars were staying as promised.
During the greetings, the former Real Madrid president smiled and said that Qi Zu had maintained a good figure and could continue to play professional football.
He also asked about Ronaldo's injury and said that the Brazilian was not as fat as the outside world said.
In response, Zidane joked, "If you come back, then I will return to the professional football world."
Ronaldo said nostalgically, "President, what a wonderful time we had together!"
The whole meeting lasted only about five minutes.
Later, Ronaldo and Zidane were interviewed by Televisión de España 4 because the station had obtained the broadcasting rights of the charity match in Spain.
During the live interview, Florentino once again greeted Ronnie and Qi Zu in front of the camera with the help of TV Channel 4.
From the beginning to the end, Florentino refused to answer questions related to Real Madrid. He only evasively said that "Ronaldo and Zidane are in form. They are the main characters today."
On the other hand, Ronaldo and Zidane did not avoid the media's questioning of their former employers.
"The current situation in Real Madrid is not Bosque's fault. The problem lies in other aspects. Barcelona's great start makes the Real Madrid fans even more heartache. "
That was what Ronnie said.
Qi Zu said emotionally, "Just like the Barcelona manager said, it doesn't feel like the season has just started. It feels like it has already ended."
This was Florentino's first appearance in the Spanish public because of football since he resigned as the chairman of Real Madrid in 2006. Coincidentally, he was accompanied by the two signings that shocked the world in the "Galactic Era" that he created.
Therefore, this "Galactic Nostalgia" quickly became the focus of the Spanish media's coverage.
In particular, Zidane's sentence, "I'll go back if you go back," made the current Real Madrid chairman, Calderón, feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.
Because he had been in charge of the Bernabéu for two and a half years, he always felt that the shadow of his predecessor had not dissipated. Recently, the news about Florentino's intention to participate in Real Madrid's 2010 election was getting more and more real.
Therefore, on the afternoon of the day after the charity match, Calderón lost his temper. "When Real Madrid faced a mini-crisis, this gentleman came out. When we won two La Liga titles and the Real Madrid Club's tenth Champions League trophy, he did not do so. Florentino's behavior is only for personal gain and can only bring harm to Real Madrid. When all the people of Real Madrid should be united, his photos with Ronaldo and Zidane will not help at all. He knows that very well. "
Calderón's next words were ungentlemanly.
"Let's see if in a few days Florentino will take a photo with another player who made Real Madrid pay four billion pesetas instead of spending so much money to get. Then he will say that it is to increase the birth rate and stimulate the development of the sex industry."
Calderón's criticism of his predecessor was pardonable. Unfortunately, during the Real Madrid crisis, the current Real Madrid chairman's outspoken statement provided the outside world with another hype topic.
When Calderón had lost his composure to face the threat posed by Florentino, Bosque's hair almost turned white in the training base.
Ruud van Nistelrooy said goodbye to the season, Higuaín occupied the last hospital bed, and the frontline was stretched to the point of having no rice to cook.
At this time, in addition to urging the club to bring in a striker after the opening of the winter transfer window, he could only pin his hopes on the team's other invisible substitute striker.
The little rabbit, Saviola.
The coaching staff thought Saviola was a good boy. He was never noisy and only knew how to work hard on the training ground and listen to the coach's arrangements.
But as the saying goes, the crybaby gets milk. Saviola did not dare to cry, so the playing time he received was extremely limited. After joining Real Madrid, before the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, he only received a total of 922 minutes of playing time in three competitions, the Copa del Rey, La Liga, and the Champions League in a year and a half, and it was spread out over 25 games. Of which, only five were in the starting lineup and he scored a total of four goals.
After Ruud van Nistelrooy and Higuaín were injured, Bosque had no other choice but to give Saviola a chance.
He joked before the game, "Now we are in no condition to let a player play as a substitute. Otherwise, I'm afraid even I would have to play."
However, with last-minute preparation, Bosque did not receive the results he wanted.
In the game against Borisov Bart, Saviola's performance was disappointing. He missed several scoring opportunities in the game and seemed to have no feeling in front of the goal. Only two of his five shots were within the range of the goal frame, and he did not score. What was worse was that he was also robbed by the opponent 13 times and became the source of Real Madrid's near-loss of goals.
On the contrary, Raúl, who was booed by tens of thousands of fans at the Bernabéu in the last league game, played a leading role. His goal in the seventh minute of the game not only extended his scoring record in the Champions League again, but also brought valuable three points to Real Madrid. With the background of Zenit and Juventus' draw, Real Madrid led Zenit by four points with nine points in five games and advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League in advance.
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