This story begins with a training sweatshirt. For Viniciusone more, the one he used in the warm-up prior to the League match against health in the sadar. For Lucas, a treasure that he already keeps in his room as a memory of an unforgettable night. The two were the protagonists of a scene that in times of tension reconciles football with the purest values of sport. The Brazilian was warming up with the rest of his teammates and Lucas, who turns 14 in June, yelled at him from the stands showing a Real Madrid shirt with the number 20 by Viny Jr. And that’s where it all started. «He was in the usual place and the players were warming up on the other side, and when I saw that they were coming to do the exercise I looked for a hole where there was nothing so that he could get close. I called to him, he turned around and looked at me. And I said, ”well, well, that’s what I’ll take now” », says Lucas from his house in Tudela. But it turns out there was something else. “And then, when they were going to change exercises, I yelled at him, he turned around and when I saw that he was coming towards me, I didn’t believe it,” he continues.
Vinicius he threw the sweatshirt and Lucas took the opportunity for the Brazilian to put the signature on his shirt that he had not been able to get on the visit the previous season. “Last year he left upset because he tried to get Vinicius to sign it for him, but he didn’t start and he wasn’t in the warm-up and he didn’t sign it for him,” says Eva, his mother, almost as excited or more than her son. «Vinicius is the one I like the most, for everything. He didn’t say anything to me, he gave me the sweatshirt, signed me and left. I didn’t believe it. I didn’t know what to do, whether to laugh or cry. They had to warn me that the camera was focused on me and someone told me to pose. I didn’t care about the result of the game anymore, “continues Lucas, who, of course, slept with that sweatshirt on that night. «The next morning, when I opened the door of the room, I smelled Vinicius’ cologne. It still smells, even if you vent it smells like his perfume, “explain Eva and David, the father of the child and a little guilty that he is from Madrid.
Lucas and his mother have been Osasuna subscribers for a few seasons, although he has his preferences. “I like going to El Sadar because I see all the teams and the players, but the first is Madrid. In these Copa del Rey qualifiers I have had a good time, cheering, but Madrid first, “he insists to make it very clear. «He is a member of Osasuna, but with a Madrid card. When the two teams play, he goes with Madrid. In the stadium we are in a very familiar area and everyone in the seats around them tells him that it is the only day they allow him not to cheer on Osasuna. He sings Madrid’s goals and is wearing his white scarf and sweatshirt”, confirms Eva, who adds an anecdote between Lucas and a very Osasunista man who sits nearby: “Today, you do your thing and I do mine”, he tells Lucas, and they each cheer for their colors.
This Wednesday, in the first leg of the King’s Cup semifinals between Osasuna and Athletic Club, Lucas and his mother will once again travel the hundred kilometers there and the same number back that there are between Tudela and Pamplona to cheer on the reds, as they almost always do when there is a game at El Sadar. «The club puts on a bus service that takes you two hours before the game and returns just when it ends. The truth is that it is good because it is difficult to drive back after a whole day of work, “says Eva. That yes, there is a date in which they do not take the bus, and they go by car because Lucas wants to arrive much earlier and also stay after to see the footballers of the visiting team… Yes, that day is when he plays the Real Madrid in Pamplona.
Lucas has only been to a game once in the Santiago Bernabeu, a Copa del Rey tie against Girona, but that does not mean that whenever there is an opportunity he escapes with his parents to Chamartín. «We know the process of the stadium works perfectly. Every time he had to go to Madrid for work, they both took advantage. I don’t even know how many times they’ve done the Bernabéu tour,” explains Eva while Lucas shows a photo of him celebrating the fourteenth European Cup around the stadium. «We went to Madrid to see the Champions League final at the stadium. We only had one ticket and we gave it to a family that was missing one of the children and we saw it from the outside. We did the entire preview of the final with the fans. Three hours he kept me among the people, “says David with resignation. “And that these crowds are not going very well for Lucas, but he endured so happy for Madrid,” adds Eva.
Tears in comebacks
The road to Paris, the one with impossible turns on the scoreboard at the Bernabéu, he lived through tears from his home, even one day when he was about to lose faith. «The one of the PSG It was incredible, and I remember that in Manchester City I was nothing to go to sleep, because I said “goodbye”. It was number 88 and there were two goals left, so I thought I was going to sleep, that I had school the next day. But in the end I stayed, I don’t know why, and it was worth it».
This year he is convinced that Madrid will also go far in Europe. “We are going to win it again. After last year, anything is possible », he says. This Wednesday he will take the bus to animal Health and if things go very well, the family does not rule out being in Seville on May 6th for a possible ending. The first of the rojillos since that of Vicente Calderón in 2005 lost against Betis with a goal from Dani. If it were against Madrid, maybe Lucas will meet Vinicius again.
