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There was a time when
the children of Spain wanted to be goalkeepers
. It came after a preference for making a living as bullfighters, firefighters, policemen and
field
soccer players
, poster idols on top of the gotelé, until the moment they wrote "gloves" in the letter to the Kings. It was because of a kid from Móstoles who
stopped the strikers like the Chinese in the tank photo in Tiananmén
. The popcorn that Jorge Valdano translated into Argentine as "flying miracles". A neighborhood boy who was about to win 'La Séptima' after the director of the institute took him out with 16 years of class so that he went to play the European Cup in Norway with the first team of Real Madrid and not to an appointment with the dentist.
Born into a humble family,
Iker Casillas
(39), who entered the club's lower categories at age 10, made his debut in the First Division on September 12, 1999 in San Mamés, with a 2-2 win against him. Athletic de Bilbao and the '27' on his back.
It was the same season that he became the youngest goalkeeper to play and win a Champions League final
. Paris. 'The Eighth'.
He soon won the affection of the stands and the recognition of Spanish football. In addition, Madrid did not take long to reissue the European success,
already with
Florentino Pérez
in the box
. An injury in the Glasgow final of César, the veteran goalkeeper who lined up Vicente del Bosque, ended in a
contortionist recital by Casillas under sticks that consolidated Zidane's volley
.
With the arrival of Florentino's first megalomaniac project, the 'galacticos' -
Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham
- brought
too much public relevance
to the extra-sports life of the players
. The team was stuck in a cloudy stage of play, compared to
Here there is no one alive
because the only one who worked was the goalkeeper. At that time,
Iker began his romance with
Eva González
, Miss Spain 2003 and one of the women of the moment, which transcended the sports press. A courtship that lasted three years and ended shortly after one of the goalkeeper's sweetest stages: the Euro Cup in Austria and Switzerland in 2008 with
Luis Aragonés
on the bench.
Casillas felt safe, as the announcement said, and Spain with him in goal.
But the peak of his popularity was reached on
July 11, 2010
, in South Africa.
Spain was world champion and Casillas, who in a heads up with Robben had stretched the toe of the boot to size 67, raised the cup to the sky of Johannesburg.
Already with the medal around his neck, already world champion, the moment that remains in the collective memory is the
Iberian morreo to
Sara Carbonero
, the
Telecinco
reporter
with
reddish-yellow
cheeks and blue eyes who interviewed him live.
No statement was needed to confirm the relationship.
MOURINHO ARRIVES
It was the same summer that
Mourinho
, ultimately his executioner at the club,
landed
, who burst into the locker room as
Gunnery Sergeant Highway
, the
Clint Eastwood
character
who had drunk more beer and smashed more eggs than all the players put together. The Portuguese, who arrived with a European Cup with Inter won at the Bernabéu under his arm, had the mission of giving the team a competitive character. Although he asked for the Ballon d'Or for the goalkeeper upon arrival, shortly afterwards he ostracized him from barely worn gloves so as not to numb his fingers on the bench. A public fight that provoked a plebiscite debate at the Bernabéu, with the circus ballot of the whistle or the applause.
Under accusations of 'mole' with the press for his relationship with Carbonero
, this meant a loss of confidence for a goalkeeper who better stopped dandruff in the campaigns he starred for
H&S
than shots at goal, balls that slipped through his hands like smeared with grease.
Without tributes after 15 years in the team
, with a tearful press conference, he said goodbye to the club.
He went to Porto
to close his career still at the first level.
There the most difficult moment of her life occurred, the acute myocardial infarction during a training session on May 1, 2019,
the same year that Sara Carbonero was detected ovarian cancer
.
Already retired from professional football and enrolled in the Real Madrid Foundation, this year the couple announced their separation after 11 years of relationship and two children.
Casillas thus faces the crisis of the 40s.
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