Kubo, specialist against Madrid

Fate is being capricious with Takefusa Kubo. He signed for Real Madrid in July 2019 as a strategic signing. For talent, price and past: he arrived at zero cost and went through La Masía, where he earned the nickname of the japanese messi. Her preseason was full of flashes. During the stay in Canada, it was one of the great attractions. “Not out of tune”they said about the Japanese in the white locker room when sharing training with him. Two years and eight months after that, faces are seen for the sixth time (Monday 14, 9:00 p.m.) against the team that owns their rights. A Madrid whose shield has not officially defended.

The summer of his landing he came to play against Bayern and Atleti in the International Champions Cup and left great sensations. Japanese journalists were impregnated with the hype of the operation. Then he would go to Castilla to gain experience in a plan similar to that of Vinicius a year earlier. Grow at the beginning to make the leap to the first team. The roadmap was drawn. Two more friendlies, against Alcorcón and Cultural Leonesa, and when everything was ready to be released by Raúl in the white subsidiary, the Mallorca option appeared.

Pre-season… and Erasmus

In his first loan on the islands he proved to have dough, despite his 18 years, as a First Division footballer. The maybe better Take that has been seen in Spain since its arrival. Four goals, more than 2,500 minutes… and his first two games against his Madrid. The first leg was the famous game in which Zidane’s Unit B shipwrecked (1-0 in Son Moix). In the second leg there was revenge (2-0). In the victory he played the final half hour, in the defeat the 90 minutes, but he could not show off against his ‘owner’.

In 2020-21 he seemed to take a step forward, with his loan to Villarreal, but they went two steps back. Without opportunities or confidence from Emery, he left for Getafe in the winter. He recovered part of the brightness of it and left a detail that the blue team still remembers, a sovereign goal that sealed the permanence. Two more games against Madrid, draw with Villarreal (1-1) and defeat with Getafe (2-0). One minute in the first and just over half an hour in the second, not being able to show his best face in this double exam.

double inducement

back to summer, the doors of the white team remained closed due to quota problems. Vinicius, Militao and Rodrygo are the ones who occupy the non-community position. The nationalization of the former has been delayed by the pandemic and this has directly affected a Take who closed this summer his second assignment to Mallorca in three years. However, as this newspaper reported, this may be his last Erasmus course. Yes Friends manages to complete the process on time, from the club they look favorably on having the Kawasaki playmaker for the 2022-23 season. Madrid closely follows the evolution of its footballer, although at the moment it has not contacted him so as not to distract from your performance.

This season, on September 6-1, Kubo could do little, as Mallorca was subdued by Asensio and Benzema, hat-trick and double by. After that clash he began an ordeal of 62 days and eight games out, due to a meniscus injury. Little by little he has recovered part of the spirit of 2019, with his goals to Atleti and Espanyolwhich meant two victories, as the tip of the iceberg. On Monday he will have a sixth revalidation to uncork the essences that in Madrid they only saw in that preseason in Montreal. On this occasion it has a double incentive: it could be his last game as a rival to the white team and it will be, after the parenthesis of Di Stéfano, his first at the Santiago Bernabéu. It is his turn to present himself to a crowd that still does not know him after receiving him with great revelry.