The day Guti fell in love with Silvio Berlusconi

It happened almost 20 years ago, tomorrow they are fulfilled. Was the August 1, 2000. Florentino's Madrid (he had only been in the club's presidency for two weeks) went to the Giuseppe Meazza as a guest at the Centenary of the historical Milan. Circumstances made the Del Bosque team come to this lineup appointment with a Plan B. Figo was missing, recently signed from Barcelona, Raúl, Hierro, Helguera, Salgado, Casillas, Roberto Carlos, McManaman, as well as Makelele and Flavio, who had just been signed by Celta and Deportivo, respectively. He Milan, in honor of his Centennial, he put the Maldini, Costacurta, Albertini, Gatusso, Leonardo, José Mari, Shevchenko … A great team.

He Madrid was a mixture of substitutes and youth squads: Cease; Geremi, Julio César, Karanka, Iván Campo, Solari; Celades, Julio Álvarez, Guti; Savio and Morientes. The white fans feared the worst against that rival who in the late 80s had already humiliated us twice in a row, away from the dream Seventh. But nobody had guti, that that afternoon of magic and unleashed talent had precisely 10 of Figo on his back. His was 0-1 with a left-footed shot from the front. It was also the architect of 0-2 after a great wall with Morientes that he solved with an assist made in guti. He came back to dial at 0-3 leaving 50,000 speechless typhosi Giuseppe Meazza. And Guti still had energy to start the move from 0-4 from Etoo, who that summer made vain merits by not counting for the president's new sports project (he ended up in Mallorca). The manchego Rivera put the heading 1-5 after a goal by Shevchenko.

Guti's left foot gave off so much magic that Silvio Berlusconi fell in love with the blond stonemason with detached hair. Came to offer you that same summer double what he charged in Madrid. Guti was flattered, but his obsession to succeed in the team of his heart was more powerful. Rejected offer and he stayed ten more years in his house, in that sanctuary of the Bernabéu that began arguing with him and ended up loving him. For posterity their unrepeatable heels to Zidane, in a Madrid-Seville at the Bernabéu, and before Depor in Riazor. Twenty years have passed and Berlusconi keeps wondering how that kid dared to say no. Just a year later, the August 1, 2001, Zidane debuted in white on Spanish soil at the Ciudad de Alicante Trophy, against Montpellier at Rico Pérez. Madrid won 1-0. But Zizou didn't dial, the goal was the work of a certain Guti …