2023-10-27 07:22:12
They send in the Barça. And in the Madrid. Although, at the same time, they not only portray the sporting situation – they are leaders almost by necessity more than by conviction – but also, with extreme fidelity, the economic moment of the two institutions. Of misery in Barça, which doesn’t even have a field because the old Camp Nou has been demolished. Of abundance in Madrid, which proudly boasts of the ultra-modern Bernabéu, which stands proudly on the Paseo de la Castellana.
João Félix is not even from Barça, who recruited him in the last breath of the market from Atlético, where Simeone didn’t even want to see him. He is on loan. Jude Bellingham, on the other hand, is white heritage after having invested 103 million in getting it out of Germany where it was consecrated in Dortmund. He was able to return to England, his home, but the midfielder, is he just a midfielder or is he perhaps a scoring forward?, avoided City’s offer, seduced as he was by the Real Madrid feeling that he had harbored since he was young.
still young Jude –he is 20 years old-, capable as he has been of breaking with the old prejudices that an English player outside the Islands was as lost as a continental when driving on the left in Great Britain. His thing, Jude’s thing – sporting, commercial and even emotional icon of the new Madrid pos Benzema– will be studied in a few years.
‘Hey Jude’ at the Bernabéu
He has even made the Bernabéu sing, dedicated and fused with the sound of the Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ every time he scores a goal (he has 11 in 12 games) and extends his arms in an image that connects him with Real Madrid until it becomes a an idol. As if he were the new Benzema or even compared to Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Englishman Jude Bellingham, from Real Madrid, has cleared up doubts about his physical condition and his presence on Saturday against Barça in an interview for TVE: “Hello, friends of the #Newscast. “I’ll be in the classic.”https://t.co/MeE65mjsJc
— RTVE (@rtve) October 26, 2023
“I have 11 goals at the moment and it’s a bit surprising for me, to be honest,” Bellingham confessed to TVE, acknowledging that listening to that song ‘beatleniana‘ It makes “his hair stand on end because every time I dial I start to hear it, first softly and then it goes up and up.” Like his football. He can’t imagine the end.
“I have 11 goals at the moment and it’s a bit surprising for me, honestly. It makes my hair stand on end because every time I score I start hearing ‘Hey Jude'”
He is 20 years old and behaves as if he has been at the Bernabéu for a decade. You don’t feel the vertigo of the price (It is the second most expensive signing in history after Hazard) nor the weight of the shirt. Jude flies happily across the white meadow, eager to win his first classic against Barça with the memory, precisely, of one that he saw from CR7.
“I will always remember a celebration that Cristiano made asking for ‘calm, calm’. It was an iconic image,” confessed Bellingham, who has recovered from some muscle discomfort, ready to set foot on Montjuïc, the house where João Félix rents. The Portuguese, on the other hand, does not have a song about Barcelona fans. No iconic image to boast about.
The owner of the left wing
But he has fitted well into the tactical module that Xavi has designed for him, who has had to reformulate his Barça on the fly. At the last moment two key pieces appeared for his scheme: ‘the Joãos’. The anarchic Cancelo is the owner of the right wing of the defense.
The talented Félix governs the left flank of the attack. He does not have as much weight as Bellingham (the Portuguese has only scored one goal in the League compared to the English’s eight), although has entered well into the culé universe. He is just as happy in Barcelona as the Englishman is in Madrid.
It seems that he always plays two games. One with Barça and another looking towards Atlético. It’s as if he felt the need, and he has no reason, to show what he is. And what it can become. João Félix is 23 years old, but it seems that time is slipping through his skillful feet. He must prove himself and, in the process, prove to Simeone that he was wrong too.
Two debutants will meet this Saturday in Montjuïc. They both drag inconvenience. “It’s nothing, just a blow,” said the Barcelona player about the impact he received on his hip. “I’m ready,” said the Madrid player. Both debutants. And leaders out of necessity for a classic that they have never played.
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