Few more suitable characters than Carlos
Arguiñano, Iñaki
Gabilondo,Robert
Lopez
Ufarte Y 'Bixio' Górriz to explain what it means ‘Being of the Real’. The first two in their capacity as universal ambassadors of the txuri urdin sentiment and the League champions as privileged exponents of what all the realzales would have liked to be, the second day of the cultural festival ‘Korner'Organized by the Real, it left a kind collection of sentiments that those attending the Principal Theater embraced with the complicity of those who feel as a family.
That term, that of “family” was the first in which the four agreed to describe the Royal, each one from his own sphere. From the day of the debut of the 'Little devil', in which “the ‘Chino’ Martinez He took me by the shoulder, he showed me all the nooks and crannies of Atotxa and I realized that it was a family ”, even extending to the entire province of feeling when they won the first league. “It went from being the San Sebastián team to being the Gipuzkoa team and that made it bigger,” the media chef recalled. Passing, of course, through the detailed memories of the journalist born on the street Aldamar, that x-ray passion like nobody else. “I am essentially from the Real, since October 19, 1942, when my father made me a member and at the same time he registered me in the civil registry. I am from the Royal by birth, as I am white. I was born, am and will die of the Real. They are like intrinsic chapters of my life, “he explained brilliantly. Gabilondo what Arguiñano He added that “being from the Real is something that I have tattooed on my forehead.”
Górriz Y Lopez
Ufarte They came to the club from Irun almost half a century ago and, at that time, in the border city “there was a lot of anti-Real”, recalls the excentral. When I played for Sanse I realized what Real means and now I'm just another fan, I don't recognize myself ”.
“La Real looks like us”
A characteristic satin of the txuri urdin club, but it never hurts to remember how he did Gabilondo, is its “backbone character. Few teams have the degree of connection between the Real and its people ”and, according to the journalist, it is because“ the Real is similar to us. We like that La Real is how we Guipuzcoans want to be. Make it formal, do not do foolish things with money, honest, humble … Our idols are players like Xabi
Tight, that type of player who looks like us. We like it because this is the Real we want ”.
Górriz Y Lopez
Ufarte they agreed that they see it difficult “to compete with a team only with homegrown players because football has become very competitive” but they clarified that it is important that those who come from abroad integrate as in their day “Aldridge, Kovacevic, Carlos
Xavier, Kodro or Ocean”. Arguiñano believes that “very beautiful years are coming” and Gabilondo He hopes that this current explosion of success will not lead us to misread what the Real is. “Sometimes it seems to me that part of the fans have forgotten how difficult it is to win and the merit it has,” said the Donostiarra. “People must accompany the team demanding it, having aspirations, discussing the leadership of football in the Basque Country but understanding that it is difficult. Dreaming yes but with enormous effort ”, he concluded.