Liga Santander: How do you live a classic behind the scenes? | LaLiga Santander 2019

• Pique.
  

  “The Madrid of the first part is the worst I've encountered in the Bernabéu”
  

• Chronicle.
  

  The classic sanctifies Vinicius
  

Not only for soccer players Classic It is the most important date of the season. Since Movistar + and LaLiga, they invited the newspaper exclusively THE WORLD to know firsthand how to live the broadcast of a Real Madrid-Barcelona in the Santiago Bernabeu. Both entities gave this newspaper the opportunity to get to know the details behind the cameras, from the amount of accredited media to the most intimate confessions of the storytellers and the sensations prior to the most momentous party of the course.

This year, for example, the great technical innovation has been the inclusion of the volumetric video system. The main innovation for the duel was the placement of 38 5k cameras with which 360-degree repetitions could be created to observe the plays from any imaginable angle. “It is as if you put the camera inside the field,” he explained Javier Fernández Alemany, the Movistar + Sports Production Coordinator.

For the first time in history, this method has been used in a live football and LaLiga is the first tournament to have had this great technological breakthrough. During the break, this unique 'replay' was shaped, as it was on trial and it takes time to accurately perform the scene. The test was a success and the fans who followed the meeting on TV could see from a unique perspective how, after a precise service of Jordi Alba, Griezmann connected a powerful shot that went over the goal defended by Courtois.

In the Mobile unit located around the white colosseum to issue the duel, numerous 'boxes' served different purposes. In the makeup, several illustrious of the chain met as Michael Robinson, Maldini, Rebeca Haro or Joseba Larrañaga. It is not normal for everyone to agree in the same space for the retransmission of a normal match, but the classic is not a normal match. The usual thing is that not many professionals from the company travel to a stadium, but the dimensions of a Madrid-Barça require special measures.

“We are talking in a place where I had never been before!” Carlos Martinez, which has been broadcasting football unchanged since August 1990. “I just put on makeup and I never do it. Everything is special because it is something very big and we hope it works out as well as possible.” For Martínez, the responsibility is not greater than that of narrating any other football battle, since he faced it with the humility of knowing that “the protagonists are in the grass“.” We are just the soundtrack. The magic of what we do is that we work with something that has not happened, “he said. For Julio Maldonado, always Maldini, the key to everything is to enjoy such an exceptional moment.” Never let the special become in ordinary. I've done a lot of classics, but I still have a crack in my stomach, “said the commentator.

For its part, Danae Boronat He pointed out how he could barely sleep six hours. After midnight he was about to close Saturday's league day on a set in Barcelona and when he woke up in the morning he was already on his way to Madrid. With a perennial smile on his face, he remarked that they had barely eaten since before noon. “I brought some chocolate“, he confessed, more for his appetite than for his nerves. The experience is a grade and the presenter already has many boards. And it is that the fans, the players or coaches would be uneasy, but nobody was tense on the set of shooting. none of the professionals present there was a big date even if all the eyes of the world were fixed on them. As Boronat had, they didn't have time to worry “about what they will say”. “If you worried too much about going carefully and not to hurt sensitivities would be impossible, “he said correctly in the face of possible criticisms and value judgments of the audience.

Half the planet was focused on what was happening on the grass of Chamartin. The deployment lived up to the circumstances. Almost 600 people wore the accreditation of television media, 136 of them worked for the 23 international channels that went to the Bernabéu. Among them Marcel Desailly or 'the gunman' Sonny anderson. Since North Africa and countries of Midwest to China, Japan or Korea, passing through Greece, Brazil, USA … Endless cultures that did not want to miss the greatest show in the world offered by Movistar + and LaLiga, who wanted to capture every detail with their 31 cameras (The most frequent is to take half or so), among which were the Ultra Slow Motion or the helicopter, which is only used for the Classics. In the 'other Classic', everyone contributed their part so that it was reflected in the main one, the one that monopolized the looks of football fans who enjoyed one more game … which is not one more game.