• Selection: the Olympic dream of Ramos

"Will I arrive in Qatar?" Minutes after being eliminated the selection in the World Cup in Russia (July 1, 2018), Sergio Ramos threw a question into the air, between the sad sigh and curiosity. Those around him at that time, in the guts of the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow , said yes, of course, that the next World Cup was not that far away. He also did not expect an answer, in the middle of the disgust for such an ugly championship and such ugly elimination. Ambitious as he is, owner of a miraculous gift almost unique in football, it was said that the thing could not stay that way. I would have to play another World Cup. That is why Qatar has become, in 2022, as a vital challenge on the horizon. A date to get the best possible. He looks with good legs at 36, the age at which he would appear in Doha.

But before Sergio Ramos a 2020 full of challenges , with the merit of finding motivations after such a sports career. Only the great champions know how to draw new paths when it would be normal for time, family and banks to advise a well-deserved rest. With Fernando Alonso , in addition to having common friends, he shares this effervescent veteran. If the pilot looks for unusual goals in the Dakar , the defense looks at Tokyo wanting adrenaline. There he would like to be in July to play his first Olympic Games, a door that the regulation opens in the form of three accreditations for players over 23 years old.

Never before has the Federation taken advantage of this route to reinforce its Olympic teams, but in Las Rozas they are clear that if someone deserves to break the custom is the great captain of the team, brand new owner of the international record (170), after beating Last October the Iker Casillas brand.

Ramos' dream, his willingness to go to Tokyo, has the Spanish Olympic Committee excited, imagining the strength of a photograph with Rafa Nadal, Pau Gasol and the Real Madrid star. Three of the icons of the best time in the history of sport in our country could be part of the expedition to the Games. The central does not want to pressure the Federation. At the moment, he has only made it clear that he would love to wear the national shirt in an event always difficult to fit for elite soccer players. There are still months and kilometers of matches. Mucha works with his club and also with the absolute, because before Tokyo, Ramos has to lead Spain in the European Championship , with the plus of starting the first phase of the tournament as locals in Bilbao . The three parties, in San Mamés.

No vacations

If things went very well for Luis Enrique's group, reaching the top of the calendar, there would be little rest for the players chosen to double. The match scale in Japan opens on July 22, just 10 days after the end of the Euro. Physical sacrifice and vacations in the air, but the possibility of completing his medal winners with an Olympic medal is irresistible to Ramos. In fact, if he achieved gold, he would sign a single curriculum. Nobody won a World Cup before, two Euro Cups, four European Cups and the Olympic scepter. A trip, from Tokyo, yes, that would have to count on the approval of his club.

And here opens another path to clear for the captain of Real Madrid, between uncertainties and certainties. The second are the well-known missions that lie ahead with the whites. 2020 does not give truce, because to the rough date with which the men of Zidane open the year, this Saturday in Getafe , the novel Supercopa of Spain joins immediately. In Saudi Arabia next week expects the first title of the year, with Valencia, Atlético and Barça as rivals. Cheating tournament, from where to go out with a drink and a smile or with the ugly horned one that always means defeat to one of the intimate enemies.

Then the League will continue, the main objective of this new Madrid of Zidane , reinforced from behind to try to recover the trophy of regularity. Ramos, of course, has a lot to do with the recent tranquility of Courtois. Only then, rigorously, will they be able to eliminate the City of Guardiola in the eighth of the Champions League, the magical land of the camero. There are still Real Madrid players who sing their goal to Atlético in the repetitions of the 2014 final that the club channel always broadcasts at Christmas. It's history with capitals of the club since that night.

That is why its current situation is so delicate, in the process of entering its last year of contract (2021). The negotiation will not be easy, as it never was to buckle the farewells of the shield legends. Ramos will claim a final document that allows him to retire in Madrid as he believes he deserves (with salary increase included) and the club will have to decide whether to accept his demands or not. It could offer, in return, a renewal season by season, depending on variants. A tug of war that will be under the shadow of the strange threat of last summer, with an exit to China that remained unspecified. Will 2020 be the year of goodbye to Ramos del Madrid? Only he knows.

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