Awaziem, the friend of Iker Casillas who wants to go to Madrid

Modern football is an imaginary of rethought phrases and repressed wishes. Sincerity is punished as if it were a stigma. TO Chidozie Awaziem he cares little. He goes to his ball. It is part of a fresh and additive-free personality. The central defender of Leganés behaves for what he is: a 23-year-old boy happy to play soccer. Purity of spirit that hides a complex challenge. Awaziem wants to sign for Real Madrid.

Today, therefore, the team of your dreams will be measured. He himself admits that his desires wear meringue and persecutes them with divine devotion. Literal. “I pray to play someday at Real Madrid,” he confessed not long ago in an interview he gave to LaLiga and in which he wore Madrid inoculated out of admiration for his idol, Sergio Ramos. “I like Sergio Ramos. I like very much. I love his style of play, his attitude on the field, his fighting spirit and his leadership. So I always dreamed of playing in LaLiga and I also dream of playing for Real Madrid, “he insisted. without clarifying what part of his obsession is the fault of an illustrious white: Iker Casillas.

Both of them coincided in Porto for two seasons. In fact, Awaziem went up to the first team the same course the goalkeeper debuted in Do Dragao, after leaving the Bernabéu. That campaign, Iker he played it all and Awaziem, a good part of the end of the championship. They matched eight lineups for a team he led José Peseiro, Nigerian international's main supporter. With the arrival of Nuno, Chido (as they know him in the dressing room) he stalled in the subsidiary, although with a recurring presence in the training of the Portuguese first team.

After that, he packed his bags and migrated two courses away from Porto, but he did not break his link with Casillas. Master of tutelage, the Spanish took him under the care of his advice and, since then, a key friendship was born on his arrival at the Avenida de los Once Leones. “Iker told me that Leganés was good for me”Awaziem confessed in his presentation as a cucumber. That was her first day. Today will be the last. Tomorrow the contract ends and the Lega You have no purchase option, not even in case of permanence. If Porto does not retain it, the Seville of Monchi He has already shown interest in him, although what Awaziem really wants is to play one day at Real Madrid.