Rodrygo's secret, the boy who went crazy with La Décima

Did not choose bad day Rodrygo Goes (19 years old) to honor his nickname. On Wednesday, at 59 ', just 34 seconds after having replaced Mariano, Lightning sent an Inter to the canvas that was reeling. It was the Brazilian's first touch on the pitch, a lethal charge for Conte's men and liberating for Zidane's. The boy who on November 3, assisted by his friend Vinicius, had given the three points to Real Madrid in Valdebebas, he dressed again as an executioner, this time in Milan.

Already before the media, Rodrygo celebrated the night with sincerity. “I have a certain star and affection for this competition. I always score goals or give assists … I hope I can continue playing like this. “Santos's ex was speaking, and he was not telling any lies, about the idyll he is building with its crush, a Champions League in which he has six goals and three assists in nine games, four as a substitute, with an impressive average intervention in one goal every 48.89 minutes.

The data sounds very good in itself, but they are heavenly music if compared with what the five historic pichichis of the Champions had achieved in the same appearances. None of them, neither Cristiano, nor Messi, nor Raúl, nor Lewandowski, nor Benzema, come close to the start of Rodrygo, who also has the youngest perfect hat-trick (goal with the right, with the left and with a header) of the European Cup. It also improves the mean at that point Haaland, the killer fashionable: 48.89-53.66. How could that still not write in Italy on social media “I love you, Real Madrid! I love you, Champions!”, accompanied by the photo with the jump that hit after 0-2 and two emojis, one with hearts because here is love.

From Ramos' goal to a staff to control everything

And there has been since Rodrygo was a preteen. Those who know him say that as a child he always watched Madrid, with special interest in the Champions League, and that one of his greatest memories was lived when he was 13 years old: Ramos's goal against Atlético at 92:48 of the final of the Decima, celebrated by screaming and jumping, kicking everything in its path.

At that early age, advised by his father, Eric, his agent, Nick Arcuri, and his personal trainer, Marcel Duarte, he was already working in his facility in front of the goal, trying to perfect his mastery of both legs, the header or the positioning. He helped and helps himself for that videos of great strikers, an admirer of Ronaldo and Cristiano, and from the advice of veterans on each team he played for.

In Valdebebas he relies heavily on Zidane, with which you have connected. Also with the most experienced, Ramos, Modric and Benzema, and especially with the elders of their country, Marcelo, Casemiro and even Roberto Carlos, almost one more on the staff's trips. As a complement to all this, he reviews his matches, noticing any errors.

This season, the second at the Bernabéu, is for Lightning very important not only at the club level, but with Brazil. Next summer's calendar features two exciting events, the America's Cup and the Tokyo Games. The madridista alternates presences with Tite and with the Sub-23 … and does not opt ​​for any because he wants everything.