A little over three months ago, no one expected football – the most important of the least important things – to put the brakes on in this way. Everyone lived at 120 km / h on their personal highway and a virus, cursed as well as contagious, sent people home. To the Real Madrid players, too. The disease does not look at identity cards. Although, as seen in Valdebebas, it seems that the white quarantine was somewhat different from that of the rest.
And not because they spent it in private gardens and heated swimming pools, which also, but because on their return to the competition, those from Zidane gave the feeling of having been through a time machine. A kind of return to the past, where everyone was in full physical condition and erased with the stroke of a pen the logical doubts of a return as unusual as this.
Gasoline, of course, was a little more scarce in the second part and it was the Basque team that went up the gears. The whites, on autopilot, gave the feeling of having closed the book at the break. The battery lasted 45 minutes and turned off. What he had given of himself in the first part was enough.
News of the return
In another chapter of this curious return to football, Real Madrid was no stranger to strict health security measures. The silence of Di Stéfano was different in three worlds from the spectacular nights of the Bernabéu and the absence of the public was noticed.
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What did increase were the controls. Two at the entrance to the Madrid stadium, take a temperature on arrival at the stands and disinfect the technical team of accredited journalists and photographers. New normality that hopefully soon turns weeks and becomes old.