Manchester United -midfielder Casemiro was brought to the club in a relocation of € 71 million from Real Madrid, in theory to teach a winning culture and add a degree of experience to a dressing room that had lost the way. It did not go completely to plan in Old Trafford, where the Brazilian could not replicate his shape in the Santiago Bernabeu.
Casemiro has searched for answers why, beyond his personal form, but what Real Madrid enables to get through in difficulties and to maintain such high standards.
“When you are inside and leave the club, as happened to me, look for the most complete response to what you have experienced. The big key is that Madrid prepares the players. Madrid always has a spine that are the values they bring to you. When I arrived, there was already Cristiano, Sergio Ramos, Casillas … players who had a club identity. Then they continued to Casemiro, Modric, Toni … and then Vini, Fede Valverde, Rodrygo arrived … The backbone and values of the club were made, “he said Diario ALS.
“The president himself sends those values to you. When you arrive in Madrid, you see it and enjoy them. You know who to follow. It took Vinicius five years to settle as the great player he is. But Real Madrid knew how to prepare him and now he is a world top player. “
Los Blancos compiled two unparalleled runs of European Success in the 1960s and the last decade in the Champions League. A large part of it has now been their trademark comebacks, more often than not in the Santiago Bernabeu. The 32-year-old, however, says that the attitude goes beyond the atmosphere at the Bernabeu.
“It's all, not just the stadium. Also the city. If you enter Madrid, you already know that you are going to land in the best team in the world. And when you turn on the shirt for the first time, you already know that you belong there. You believe it because you see your dream fulfilled. The Bernabeu fans are the most demanding in the world. You lead you and you win the game … and they ask you to stay further and to look more, not to look back. “
“The key to everything is that Madrid is made to win. I don't care what it's like. 1-0 or 5-0. Madrid is about winning. Win, next competition. Win and go again for a new victory. You don't talk about the previous one. They let you get used to winning. Madrid was made for that. The most important and demanding value of this club is summarized in one word: winning. “
The first example of which was summarized by Luka Modric after winning the European Cup.
'I'm going to tell you something that I had not explained in an interview until today. We were in the dressing room after the Champions League in Milan against Atleti, which we won on punishment. We celebrated the eleventh and Luka Modric approach us and tells us without changing tone and with his very peculiar Spanish: “Friends, we now have to win two more champions competitions.” We told him: “Come on Luka, we have almost two in a row since Lisbon.” He replied: “No, no. With this great team that we have, we have to use it and write history by winning two more in a row. “
“And we won the 12th in Cardiff and the 13th in Kiev. Followed. Luka knew it. In Madrid you win the Champions League and the next day they tell you: “Let's watch it next year.” You only win the competition and good, nothing special and they will tell you that the European cup was missing. You only win the cup and they will tell you that the season was a disaster. That is Madrid, maximum question. “
Of course the contrast is that when things go wrong, the reaction is so much stronger.
“Well. If Madrid loses a game, even if it comes from ten victories in a row, it is called a crisis. That is the key to Madrid's eternal success.”
Manager Carlo Ancelotti spoke in the same way about the attitude at the club and noted that after their most recent Champions League triumph, President Florentino Perez already spoke to him about the next one. Casemiro also had a few words of advice for Vinicius during the same interview, the feeling that his international teammate had to concentrate more.
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