Boxing and meditation, RDT resources to support inactivity

"It

happens to

, like the former national coach, is clear that he does not arouse sympathy at first sight. He accepts it and lives with it since he He played for the Real Madrid subsidiary. Reserved, shameful, with an image always accompanied by his gelled hair, he is aware that only his relationship with the goal will give birth to his ascendancy in the stands. However, last summer he was immersed in a storm An abrupt departure from Espanyol, a chaotic signing by Rayo Vallecano

that sentenced him to the stands until January and a fight between his agent and the Vallecano president.

A conflictive past that surprises those who know him and that he will try to break from January 1, when he can return to the fields.

Raúl de Tomás, RDT, was happy in Barcelona, ​​but he left through the back door.

45 goals in two and a half seasons, a promotion and the call of the national team sweetened the best moment of his career.

However, he knew that his time there was running out and he was waiting for an offer when it all came crashing down.

The arrival of

to the bench and the decision to incorporate

not only opened the doors of the club for him but also placed a toxic label on him.

"Above everything and everyone," the club published on its social networks a few minutes after announcing his transfer to Rayo.

The images of the dispute with his teammate

for taking a penalty, some bad gesture to

in a substitution... and the scorer broke his silence, he stirred.

He accused the sports director,

, and the coach of having "cornered and undervalued" him and of using his departure as a "smoke screen to cover up an unfortunate managerial management."

The truth is that Espanyol preferred to lose money than have him in their squad and agreed, once the market closed, a transfer of 8 million plus variables for a striker for whom they paid 22.5 in January 2020.

As if the shadow of doubt was not enough, in the negotiation of his contract with the Madrid team, the president,

, ended up in the hospital for an alleged assault by one of the player's agents, with whom he broke up shortly after.

RDT, a "different, special, but very professional" footballer, as defined by those who have known him since he gave his first passes at San Roque de Algete, will have to shake off all this.

He is not looking for the villain costume but has learned to bear the weight of it.

, which he practices every day;

faith in God (he has the Our Father tattooed on his arm), and the horses, a competition thoroughbred and another that he usually rides and visits almost daily.

Soccer is his profession, his passion, but he prefers to run away from it when he's not on the pitch.

Since he emerged at Castilla, he has had a harsh image that those who know him defend does not conform to reality.

He was brought to Real Madrid by

, who after hanging up his boots became a recruiter for the white club.

Raúl's mother, a pillar in his life, came to him to separate him from some companies that could lead him astray.

He entered the white quarry and the SEK residence, "where he never gave a problem."

"He was always up to the task, educated, willing and with a very firm will to want to be a footballer," they recall.

In fact, RDT does not forget that hand that today's Olympiakos coach extended to his mother to achieve his dream.

From Castilla and Valdebebas, where he observed everything

did , he left for the first time for Córdoba, afraid that his career would not progress.

"That made me mature," the striker has acknowledged on more than one occasion.

"He arrived insecure, with that appearance that may seem cocky, but he adapted very well despite the fact that a shoulder injury prevented him from playing many games," say those who lived with him at the club.

He went from the Madrid complex to a sports city in the middle of cattle fields and lived in a huge house, without heating, to which a cat was brought with a double mission:

.

«He was not the prototype of an undisciplined footballer.

In fact, he was so methodical that every annoyance, every physical setback, was a mountain, "he says.

That is why he is always accompanied by his own physical trainer, the same one who, joking, one day asked him to put RDT on his shirt, although there are those who feed the legend that he was trying to emulate CR7.

After Córdoba, he sought his fortune in Valladolid before living two good seasons at Rayo, under the orders of another

,

, whom he considers one of the best coaches he has encountered in his career.

After his loan was finished, in the summer of 2019 Real Madrid transferred him to Benfica for 20 million.

His worst experience awaited him.

Six months without hardly playing, "because the coach placed me behind the striker," explained RDT, until Espanyol appeared on the January market and, a month before the outbreak of the pandemic, paid 22.5 million.

Five goals in the first five days and a confinement that ended up pushing the parakeet club to Second.

He stayed and was essential in the promotion, Luis Enrique noticed him.

In November 2021,

's injury opened the door for the last two World Cup qualifying matches and he seemed to be heading to Qatar.

The former coach praised his contribution and in March, the next window of friendlies, he summoned him again, but he had to leave the concentration due to shoulder problems.

Although it is true that he was no longer on the June list for the Nations League, his options to be a World Cup player disappeared with his controversial departure from Espanyol and his condemnation to the stands.

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