Ethe hotel pear of Kiev was chosen by the Real Madrid as headquarters before the 2018 Champions League final, the one that faced Liverpool. It was the same one in which the Spanish team watched weapons before the final of the 2012 European Championship. On the morning of the match, the hotel hall was a coming and going of relatives and friends of the soccer team players Zidane.
Florentino Prez He went from one huddle to another, a way like any other to calm the nerves, that even though Madrid already had 12 European Cups, they were not less than a year or two before. In one of those, the white president met with kiko box. “Door, what’s going to happen?” asked the president. “Well, we’ll have to win, right?” replied the Catalan goalkeeper. Florentino left no doubt that he had no other solution in mind, although he chose a joke to end the debate: “You better, because this is too far to walk back to Madrid.”
The Real Madrid won and sewed his thirteenth Champions to your story. The locker room of the Kiev Olympic was the penultimate in which kiko box He changed as a Real Madrid goalkeeper in the Champions League. The last one was that of Roma, with Solari, the day the ‘isco case‘ and when he was already the third goal after Courtois and Keylor.
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He left behind a story of three and a half years. In the summer of 2015, the club was looking for a second goalkeeper who would adapt to the ideas of Rafa Bentez. Someone remembered a goalkeeper who had been at Castilla, who was a Real Madrid player and who had made it to the national team. It was kiko box.
In those three years, Kiko played 43 games for Madrid, five of them in the Champions League: Shakhtar and Malmo (2015-16), Sporting de Portugall (2016-17) and in the 2017-18 Tottenham y Apoel. In each of his complete seasons at the Bernabu he ended up celebrating the Champions.
Positive for Covid
The Cup match was the perfect moment for Casilla to play against many of his Champions partners: Carvajal, Lucas, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kroos, Modric, Isco, Asensio or Benzema. But the season has been complicated for the Catalan goalkeeper. Starter after the first 12 games, he lost the starting role just after the defeat at home against Madrid: 1-2 on October 30. advanced by Bada, became the goalkeeper of the Cup. For him were the matches against Leoia and Unionistas, but an injury did not allow him to play in Almera.
Now it is the coronavirus that crosses his path before the game against his Madrid. “I will always carry him in my heart,” he said the day his departure to the Leeds.
