“Ancelotti is a winner and a great manager, it suits us well”

He was a footballer of the utmost confidence for Zidane and he intends to be so now for Ancelotti as well. Lucas Vazquez (30 years old) lived last season with the uncertainty about his renewal, but the one that has been releasing his new contract until 2024 and reinforced as one of the veteran voices of the locker room will begin. At the presentation by Adidas of the new and original Madridista second shirt (the one already baptized by many fans in the networks as the graffiti shirt) for this season, The versatile Galician footballer faces many of the issues of the white summer in conversation with AS …

Congratulations on your recent renovation. If he fulfills that contract, he will have spent 17 years at Real Madrid, a lifetime …

Many years, I came as a child. I have grown in every way. I am very grateful to Madrid for everything.

Is this renewal until 2024 confirmation that your plan is to retire at Madrid or do you have the bug of trying out in a foreign league before leaving?

It is very difficult for me to answer … I have not yet thought about what I am going to do next. It depends on so many things … That is why now I focus on enjoying the day to day and reaching that end of the contract in the best possible conditions.

Since January, as long as this renewal did not take place, he could legally negotiate with queriera. Did you have any of those offers that are almost irreplaceable?

Now it is useless to look at that past, because I am where I want to be. My happiness is having renewed for Madrid, which is my home. It motivates me to achieve great things in the future.

But at least those offers would help him feel loved, right?

Darling I feel above all at home, for my wife (laughs)…

He is one of the veterans, but he did not coincide in the first team with Ancelotti. Do you feel that you have to start from scratch and have to win over the Italian?

The last year he was here we did not coincide, but the previous year I was in Castilla and Carlo took me up to train several times with them, so yes, we know each other a little. It is another stage and I have to work from now to try to convince him … and put me on.

What can you contribute Carletto in this second stage?

His career in the world of football is there, it is very good, he is a winner and a great manager. It is going to be very good for us to win titles, which is what we all want.

In his presentation, the transalpine coach asked for more goal. The million dollar question … are signings needed?

I'm not the one who has to answer that. I can only say that this preseason we are working very well and I see the team very involved. Very psyched. We are going to leave our souls to achieve great things this season.

As a veteran, after the departures of people with such weight as Ramos and Varane, do you feel obliged to take a step forward in the locker room?

Well, I wear it normally. We are all people as well as players. We want the common good, that is what will make us move forward.

The knee injury in the last Clásico cut him off a season in which he claimed his importance as a right back when Carvajal was absent. Do you have another year being the multipurpose player now that you have learned the trade of two?

What I like is to play. Last year it is true that I got a lot of experience playing winger and that is why I am prepared for whatever they ask of me.

Tell me about the League. Are you looking forward to another year with four candidates for the title?

I foresee another League like last year, with many applicants and teams involved. It was a very fun league and I think it's good for our football and for the show.

Let's move on to the Champions League. Can you stand up to this fast and intense football that teams like City, Bayern, PSG and Chelsea have been imposing in recent years?

This type of football is the one that has been achieving success in recent years, but I see us capable of competing against anyone. We have been showing that we are very difficult to win. There is an illusion to be measured against the best in Europe and of course to beat them.

It has been becoming fashionable for a long time, and the system with three centrals and two lanes was endorsed in the Eurocup. Could Madrid do well?

Last year we used it with Zidane in different games and the team performed well. In football you don't have to be pigeonholed into a system, you have to have versatility. Having those different registers gives us solutions to problems and our template allows us to play in any type of drawing.

A blank second year in a row would be hard to digest. Are they required to win at least one title?

We are always obliged, at the very least, to fight them all. Winning them or not depends on many factors, but we are laying the foundations for the season to reach the final stage with options and be right to get them. Real Madrid want us to be there fighting for the titles and it is the same feeling that we have.

You who see Modric every day and also know him so well … What is the secret for him to perform like this at almost 36 years of age? Do you see him following even beyond 2022?

The secret has to be told to me yet (laughs). He doesn't want to tell anyone in the locker room. Since I play with him every year, he seems to me to be a better footballer and I think he has a good time. I don't think it's his last year …

As a youth squad who made his way to the first team, what do you think of this new generation of Blanco and Miguel Gutiérrez?

If they follow this dynamic, they will be very great players. Chust, Arribas, Marvin, Gila … they are very good. They have to learn little by little, but their future is promising.

At last football returns to the Bernabéu and with an audience. Have you been able to see the stadium works?

I have driven several times through the Castellana and I have seen that there is a good mess (laughs). I think we are going to have a spectacular stadium. It is going to be something very big for the fans and also for us. I am looking forward to the moment.

The last. He has not played since April, will we see him in the league premiere against Alavés?

I feel very good, I have been in team dynamics for several weeks and the feelings are very good, so I will be able to be in theory.