In the story of Christopher Ramos de la Flor (1997, Cádiz) are all the stories of the children of Cádiz. Children who are born next to the sea, who hit balls in the sand or against the walls of the city and who dream of wearing yellow on the grass of Ramón de Carranza (now Nuevo Mirandilla). And Ramos, 'Chris', has fulfilled the dream. Yours and everyone's. Canterano del Cádiz, he had to emigrate and score goals in Menorca, Valladolid, Seville, Badajoz and Lugo for Cádiz to notice him last winter market. In the last game against Betis he scored his first goal and now talks to EL MUNDO before receiving Real Madrid at home.

Cádiz is a historic team, but there are few players from Cádiz who have triumphed at home. Very few. As a child I saw Mejías, the mythical one, and dreamed of wearing the Cádiz shirt, scoring a goal in Carranza, being inside the bus and not outside... Going to the stadium since I was little, knowing all the chants and now being inside, I am a fan who is on the pitch. When the team was in Segunda B, I took 15 hours to Bilbao in the fight for promotion. Everything I live now I have imagined in dreams.Are all children from Cadiz? Yes, yes. Neither Barça nor Madrid. Here you have to be from Cadiz. It is very difficult to take a walk around the city and not see someone with some clothing from Cádiz, especially now in Primera.You are from the neighborhood of La Laguna, right? Yes, five minutes from the stadium. Almost wall to wall. With my grandparents and my mother. How was your childhood? Always with the ball, my vice was that. No Play or anything. When my mother punished me, she punished me without going to the square. Then my grandfather, who without him would have come to nothing and is the one who has always taken me to train rain or snow, took me secretly to the square. And at school I was not a good student, while the teacher explained something I thought about the play I was going to make at recess (laughs), I came back late to class because I was lying in the yard ... Children's stuff. What has your grandfather meant in your life? All. I owe everything to my grandparents and my mother, but especially to my grandfather. I have a special relationship with him. I have had no father and my grandfather has been grandfather and father. All three of them have played an incredible role. Now my grandfather is in the hospital and last Friday before leaving for the game against Betis I went to see him, which I always go in the afternoons, and he told me: "Know that you are going to score". And I went out with incredible confidence to the game. I know that right now my grandfather keeps alive the illusion of seeing his grandson in professional football and in Cádiz. I am fulfilling a dream, but my grandfather is fulfilling it for three. He went through the quarry of Cádiz, but ended up leaving. I spent four years in the quarry of Cádiz and as a cadet I returned to the neighborhood team, to Tiempo Libre. But I have always felt like a footballer, since I was a child I mounted my films, I did not have as much nonsense as others have when they are in a quarry. I've never believed myself more than anyone else, not even my friends. If I played on a Sunday I didn't go out, I ate more or less healthy, others went out and had fun. I enjoyed football. When you leave the Cádiz quarry don't you think "this is not for me"? Oh, no. There I thought I wanted to have fun and be happy, so I went back to the neighborhood team with friends. I didn't care about playing in another category. I have gained lifelong friends. From Free Time to Valladolid, what happened in the meantime? From the neighborhood I went to Third Division, with 18 years, to Menorca, to Mercadal. Now I think about it and say "you had two eggs". I was earning three pesetas, away from home, not knowing if I was going to do well ... But I saw myself as a footballer, I had a world left but I felt it. He had the attitude. And from there I went back to Cádiz to look for equipment and they got me a test with San Fernando. They couldn't make me a member of the first team because they didn't have money, but they made it for me from the subsidiary and I was able to play. It was a gamble and it went well, I scored goals with the first team and Valladolid signed me. It was all very fast, nobody knew me and since I had never been in a subsidiary I was not in anyone's sights. Always mand have said that it is like having gone from the first of ESO to the University. From Third to First in one year, because I debuted in Second and we promoted. And now, Real Madrid.Another dream. I can't complain. I made my debut at San Mamés, I played at the Camp Nou, at Villamarín... Are you one of those who talks a lot on the pitch? To me the truth is that they insulted me and hit me more kicks in Second B or Third than now in First. Now they tell me that they make me many faults, but for me that is nothing. I am not a person who speaks inside the field, I hate talking, I am concentrated, I talk to my teammates but not on the contrary, I always try to be cordial. I think that between us we have to have a minimum of respect, we are colleagues and we live the same even if we wear different colors. Insulting or assaulting each other is out of place.Who was his idol? Ronaldo Nazario and Didier Drogba. I had both of them shirts since I was little. Has playing in the First Division changed your life a lot? Nothing. It is true that since I signed for Valladolid I have earned money, but I have bought my house in Cádiz and little else, a normal car ... I'm not one to spend, I'm a normal person. Although now I do not have the intimacy that I had before when I came to Cádiz, that I could be with friends on a terrace or on the beach, but that is also being a footballer. As I said, here is the whole world of Cádiz, and what used to be 15 minutes in the Mercadona is now an hour (laughs). I have to look for my tricks, but happy to stop with everyone.A hobby beyond football? Playing cards with my grandfather. Since I returned to Cadiz, as I had been away for so long, that's what I do, because as a child I played cards or dominoes with it. It's what I like, family and friends, so either at home or having a drink in the square. It's where I disconnect the most.

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