• With a lower quality squad and without Sergio Ramos or any Real player, Spain could not do better than a draw against Sweden in the first game.

  • Rumor has it that Merengue supporters have no intention of supporting their selection this summer.

  • If the craze around La Roja does indeed seem slight, it is difficult after (more or less) careful examination to come to such a conclusion.

You had to have a damn muscular index finger, Thursday, to scroll on pro-Real Madrid sports media sites like

As

or

Marca

and find traces of a first article on the Spanish selection, author of a pale 0-0 at the opening of the Euro against Sweden. Departure of Sergio Ramos obliges, journalists and Madrid supporters did not care about La Roja like a bad boy and it is not the proximity of the second match against Poland on Saturday evening that is likely to change much on the board. .

This disenchantment between the supporters of Merengue and La Roja found a certain resonance in an article by Paulo Futre, published Tuesday in the

Mundo Deportivo

(pro Barça newspaper, the precision is not useless), entitled "the Merengue who roll for Portugal ".

In this paper, the former Atlético striker said that most of his fellow Real fans had chosen to return their "chaqueta" and support the Seleçao of CR7 and Pepe or the France of Benzema, Varane "and ... Mbappé" , says Futre.

"A final victory would be a miracle"

Intrigued, we explored the question. If he apologizes for not being able to confirm or deny the theory of

FC Procuración

, François Miguel Boudet does not find it surprising. “Clubism is very significant in Spain, you can not do anything about it… And then the Madridistas do not really carry Luis Enrique in their hearts, given his liabilities of former Real past direct to Barça. If we add to this that he did not take any Real at the Euro, yes, we can think that the Madrilenians are not very excited by La Roja this summer, ”reflects the founder of the site Furia Liga, ultimate reference in France football castanets.

To be clear about it, it was still necessary to find one, to support Real. It was done with Pablo Arroyo Parada, this 35-year-old architect based in Girona. Surrounded by fellow White House fans, he "thinks he has a slightly more realistic vision of the situation in Spain". For him, "the idea of ​​postponing encouragement to Portugal or France, on the pretext that there are Madrilenians in their team, is greatly exaggerated". “This year La Roja does not make you dream a lot, but it's the same among the supporters of Sevilla, Atlético or Barça, he says. We all know that a victory this year would be a miracle, we have no chance and we take absolutely no pleasure in the matches of Spain. "

Frankly, hard to prove them wrong. The (literally) draw against Sweden is a perfect example. “This team has no playing identity, sanctions François Miguel Boudet. As much when Enrique took over Azpilicueta, which he had not called for three years, I told myself that it was going to play with a three-way defense and that there would be at least a little interest in following that. And in the end against Sweden you get an old 4-4-2 with Llorente right side… The 0-0 you saw him reach 15 limits. Uninteresting. Pablo doesn't seem to get much from the Enriquesque grub either. He also evokes "strange decisions, like that of preferring Morata, who does not score a goal, to Gerard Moreno, who comes out of the best season of his career,or to play with right-back Marco Llorente when we know he is better in the middle of the field. "

The triumphant Roja was that of Xavi and Iniesta

In reality, the more we dig, the more we tell ourselves that Futre's theory seems as flawed as the game plan of the former Barça coach.

Moreover, when we look in the retro of Spanish football, we quickly realize that the Roja of the boom years (2008-2012) was never really stamped Casa Blanca.

“Madridism was not already triumphant at the time, confirms Boudet.

For example, in the European champion team in 2008, who do you have?

Ramos and Casillas, that's it.

And that did not prevent the Madrilenians from feeling fully identified with the selection.

A selection whose style of play was also based on the tiki taka of the Blaugranas, with the duo Xavi-Iniesta at the wand.

Over the course of the discussion, Pablo all the same ends up admitting that as a lover of football and the beautiful game, and not to sink into the most total depression in front of this Euro 2021, "we are necessarily going a little more take an interest in teams like France or Portugal ”.

We come there, all the same!

“But it's absolutely not going to replace our selection of hearts,” he adds.

Joder

… "If Portugal wins the Euro, we're not going to see scenes of jubilation in Madrid, or you'll have ten guys to break everything!"

Afterwards, if it is the Blues who go to the end, yes, we will be happy for Benzema and Varane, but it will not go further.

Have a good summer anyway, folks.

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