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Capricious what is the soccer. The lunar calendar can be applied neither in this sport, nor the historical memory, the numbers and not even the statistics serve to support the fresh mind. In the soccer, one day you overcome the top and on the following day you are muffling up with your ashes. Those who know about soccer know it. And but, that wonder it Cantona, Maradona, Beckham, Romario, Ronaldinho, and to so many people others. Or to Raúl. The eternal captain, they were calling him not long ago. There is nothing eternal in the soccer.

7 of Real Madrid not long ago it was occupying fronts of the newspapers accompanied by a heroic epithet, was heading the holders of the chronicles or, if it had not been his party, one was dedicating a paragraph for his tireless work on the field of play. “Legendary Raúl”, Santiago Segurola titled his chronicle in Mark of the party between Seville and Real Madrid of April 28 of last year. Juanma Trueba was aiming of him in the chronicle of October 5, 2008 that “known the aftermath of the age, his performance was reaffirmed by him to us in his eternal virtues: Raúl is an expert in the recycling”. I have made him myself a protagonist of my posts as in Madrid – Milan of this period, or when it turned into the first scorer of 2009-10.

Pero Raúl has fallen down to a quarter or fifth I plant in the soccer panorama and in the club that he still leads. Before the quality and youth of his staff he has turned out to be relegated to the stool. Of indisputable holder it has gone on to scratch minutes in the parties, to wait for his opportunity as if he was the beginner of the team. I do not try to discuss the reasons of this fact. It is logical, the biological clock yes that it has effect in the soccer and his moment has been finished. Pero Raúl is a legend of the soccer, a symbol of Real Madrid and an example to be continued. What claim is a respect and a coherence pinch.

Let’s believe and we destroy heroes like fritters, of one day for other and without getting alarmed. It happens to him this year in the fan with Higuaín, who does two periods was to transfer it to the Valladolid and now it is indisputable. It happened in due time to the barcelonismo with Ronaldinho, of loved to hated overnight. It happens to the Caldron divided yes, divided also. But we do not understand that the soccer players are not perfect machines, not that for them also spend the sheets of the calendar. But the past is written, and occasionally it is fine to reread it.

Raúl will never get into this garden. He is a soccer man, and he knows perfectly that his career is coming to his end. It has fitted his suplencia elegantly, continues it giving everything in every training and makes use to the maximum of the minutes that it has. That’s why it hurts, the fan of the soccer in general, that him adjectives devote themselves like dead, finished, tuercebotas, and other epithets. Perhaps they are loaded with the whole reason of the world, but to these swearwords they lack a pinch of this respect that there deserves a professional who has never said a word higher than other one, which it demonstrated when his legs were answering him everything what is, and that demonstrates nowadays a lot of more nobility of the one that it went so far as to generate.

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