• The news Sergio Ramos dreams of the Olympic Games
  • Confirmation. Ramos: "Going to Tokyo is a very nice idea"

It is difficult to talk about Sergio Ramos without falling into parody. It has worked. Press conferences worthy of Mariano Ozores to explain that he wanted to go, but he did not want to leave, although maybe he wanted to go a little; Motu proprio confessions that carry sanctions, and documentaries that look like a chanante Celebrities . In that crusade to crush the (great) footballer under kilos and kilos of (overreacted) character, it is instinctive to interpret his intention to go to the Tokyo Games as another way to get attention . But...

If there is something that the noise and fury around him have failed to bury it is the competitive character of a differential player ... when he is. It is true that every time he decides to be less, with his mental disconnections in low pressure situations mutated from anecdote to tradition; but on D-Day, if you are on his side, you have very clear the right plan: Ramos and ten more.

Real Madrid knows it, often unhinged when the leap to be left over in a minor match of day 5, but absolutely terrified if it is missing in the Champions League. He knows the antimadridismo, wounded to death in Lisbon and Milan. He knows this inconsequential selection, with no more differential symbol than him, the last link in the chain that unites us to a success as close in time as distant in sensations. Contrary to what the neo-handicap dictates, in sports, winning is anecdotal, uncontrollable and infrequent. But believing that you can win is indispensable. No illusion or play. Today, the Spanish football illusion with the double date of the summer, Eurocopa and Games, tends to zero. Ramos gives flavor to a white rice. Does it excite everyone? No. Do you have fun? Definitely. It is already a lot.

In addition, his Olympic yearning is legitimate without suspecting that he has more interests than sports . Anyone who has been lucky enough to be in a Games knows that it is an incredible experience; which, despite being a huge business, maintain a strange sense of purity. There is nothing like it. Any. That Ramos, star in a world so far away from any romanticism like football, prefers to go to compete in Tokyo that on vacation to Ibiza is not criticizable. It is commendable.

In the Games, the presence of symbols is fundamental and Ramos, however often his worst enemy, is: the last survivor of when we were kings. Nobody disputes that Pau Gasol will go to Tokyo, although without him he has won a World Cup and has not played at a good level for more than a year . Of course Pau is going. Of course it must go. Why not Ramos? Why not give Olympic football some of the luster that he insists on taking off? His presence in Japan would be positive for the Spanish delegation (the COE gives palms). For once, let's not criticize who wants to add.

Actually, the only one harmed by all this is Madrid , who can see how his veteran captain spends his summer working and feels tempted to move his vacations and preseason at the beginning of the course. But, well, it would not be very different from what he has done in recent years. The Ramos experience always has another twist. And this one is appreciated.

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