All his life defending the shirt of Real Madrid until his goodbye had to come, because like everything in life, things come to an end sooner or later. Although he would have liked a farewell in conditions, he left the white team without reproaching anything and with the certainty of having given everything that was in his hand. So is Guti, that although he has now changed the grass for the bench, it is still the same with which he won five Suspenders or three Champions among other things. The one who now directs the Almeria, he has counted his steps through the Real Madrid in the program Valdano universe.
The Factory with 9 years: “I went with my team from Torrejón to play against Real Madrid and everything came up there. They are hard memories. Torrejón's journey to the old Sports City with my mother was very heavy. They were not pleasant afternoons because you wanted things to be simpler for the family. They opted for me to have that opportunity to be professional. The final image is that of the soccer player, but nobody realizes what is behind. ”
His time at the Bernabéu: “By the way I play, I was very wrong. I tell my players now. I prefer a player who gives 10 goal passes and fails 8, but gives two. Horizontal passes are useless. I only know one player who have such a beastly success during every game and it's Messi. The others have many ups and downs. Every time Messi comes out, something happens. “
Taconazo to Benzema in Riazor: “For me it was normal. I decided on the field what I thought was best for me and for the team. I got the ball to my right leg, the goalkeeper covered my hole well and didn't see so many options to score. Everything I did was in tenths of a second. Before Kaka gave me the ball, I already saw everything that could happen. Another thing is that Benzema had not run, because I would have been wrong. My great virtue is that I could see football very fast. That's what allowed me to play so many years in Primera and Real Madrid. “
Cult Player: “I felt it when I played, but even more when I left. The club always thought that the club needed another player in my position. That made me more competitive. It made me grow. It would have been very easy to leave Real Madrid. I decided that the challenges I liked them. The challenge of having minutes in Madrid with the templates we had is a great achievement. People remember that I was many years, but being a substitute. The positives remember that pass or that assistance, but they don't remember that I was one of the players I played the most in Real Madrid. ” ('Rajada' of Guti against Madrid: what they did training in the quarry)
I hate in the fields: “I liked that. It was their reaction to some provocation of mine. I liked not to pass indifferent and the fact of growing up when they threw me or insulted me. I used to put my grain of sand. We are in a country where labels do a lot of damage. And when they put a label on you, it's very difficult to change it. “
Your past as a player: “I don't have to reproach Guti. He gave me a lot of satisfaction. It made me able to devote myself to what I loved so much. It made me able to have a balance.”
Farewell: “I would have liked to have a recognition or a tribute match. I felt that emptiness of a club I was a long time from. The farewell was normal because I left another team. But when time passes you think you deserve more. Many players of the Madrid has been through this situation and they think they deserved more. I left Madrid because I was saturated. “