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Joel del Río
London
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Surely he will be disappointed by how his career at Real Madrid ended; will have something to show Carlo Ancelottithe coach who signed him and then sold it. ” Emmanuel Petit About the pending account of Martin Odegaard before Madrid stepped on the lawn of Emirates Stadium For the return of the quarterfinals of the Champions.
The Norwegian midfielder He spent six years at Santiago Bernabéu At the beginning of his career, a period marked by great expectations but with limited opportunities. A 15 -year talent called to star in great feats and, After not fulfilling the enormous expectations generated by its signinghe left the white club after not being able to settle in the first team. “I was just a child who came to train. I did not participate in the matches. I felt a bit like a stranger. I was caught in the middle. I stopped playing with the spark that was typical of my game. I worried no more making mistakes than really playing my game, “he confessed.
The question asked all of Real Madridism
The midfielder I was looking for stability that few can opt in the white teamwas frustrated by the lack of minutes and Maybe he lacked character and patience to tear down a door that would have allowed him to fulfill his dream. “I started the first two games of that season in 2020-21, but I was not completely recovered. I did not play my best level and after that, I did not have many more opportunities“He explained before leaving the white club through the back door in a assignment to an arsenal, They ended up buying the player for 40 millionwhich has managed to exploit its best version.
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Now, captain and lighthouse of the men of Mikel Artetaeverything revolves around the Norwegian pearl, the Madrid fans ask a very simple question: Why didn’t Odegaard work at Real Madrid?. The difficulty of being a ’10’ at a time when Real Madrid did not use that position could be the simplest answer … although it clashes frontally with what was achieved as Jude Bellinghamwhich has taken little to recover that position. Thus, the Norwegian was displaced, more than he would have wanted, to the bands. The game system (4-3-3) with which Real Madrid crossed all the seas to submit to Europe was never the best ally of the midfielder. The triumvirate Kroos-Modric-Casemiro ‘He conditioned’, something logical when talking about soccer players, the center of the white countryside and Odegaard did not know how to adjust.
A change of mentality and its white error
An unforgivable mistake if one wants to succeed in the club with more competition in the world. Different was the vision of soccer players similar to Scandinavian (Isco, James and Asensio) that ended finding its place in the scheme after adapting to what the team needed. In the arteta scheme, the 8 Gunner also does not enjoy the position of the midfield … but It is part of the center of the center of the countryside with Declan Rice and Thomas Party. Help in the elaboration of the play, moves with total freedom through the center of the field and takes advantage of its great vision of the game to overcome the rival lines with incisive passes that attack the interior spaces of the rivals. Less spectacular (5 goals and 8 assists in 34 games), but more effective.
We sign a player who brings together all the qualities to offer the performance and demands we are looking for
Mikel Arteta
So things, Odegaard has received the opportunity with which he dreamed so many times. An unbeatable occasion to show Real Madrid that his football gathered everything necessary to have shone dressed in white. His paths crossed during his assignment in the Royal Societythere he recovered everything lost, but in the Emirates It will be the first time I do it with the Arsenal shirt in an unforgettable Champions night. Captain of a team that dreams of recovering the ‘gunner’ competitiveness of the past to Try to achieve what few teams have achieved in front of the king of the competition.
A problem for Ancelotti and Zidane
Train with the first Ancelotti team, play at Castilla de Zidane… but he never fit the second B fields. Lower with the subsidiary saw him as a punishment and not like A possibility of entering the football wheel. Without chemistry with his quarry companions, his minutes faded along the way and he chose to look for a tailored place. And instead of a solution or alternative, the midfielder became a problem for Ancelotti and Zidane.
Completely different has been its evolution with arteta. “I think it is very important for the club, since We sign a player who brings together all the qualities to offer the performance and demands we are looking forand also, a person who exceptionally represents the values of this club, our history and our current trajectory: the role he has played and how much he has contributed to where we are currently“The Spaniard confessed in the previous party. His fate changed significantly after his signing for Arsenal. In Emirates, Odegaard found the necessary environment and support to prosper.
What he never managed to understand
10 years after your signing, The Norwegian crack has come to show that they were wrong with him. Or maybe the opportunity to understand something that he did not see being so young. “I think the story of this club says that many headlines have sucked bench for a long time. Vinicius, a couple of years, Rodrygo, Valverde, Camavinga. If you want to be in Real Madrid it is customary to suck a little bench“Carlo said about the situation of Endrick and Arda Güler In Madrid, two cases similar to the Norwegian. And it is that the difficulty is maximum when a footballer jumps to the grass of Santiago Bernabéu, where They can never assure you or a number of matches and everything depends on your performance (immediate).
