Germany 2006: Zidane and the ‘new’ Real Madrid

2006 World Cup. Germany. A time of endings and beginnings. Of the legends that said goodbye forever like Zinedine Zidane with a fatal episode of headbutt Materazzi in the final and left an indelible mark on the collective imagination.

Also to one of the fans of real Madrid that week before he was fired from Bernabeu between honors knowing that he will not be stepped on again, at least as a player.

structural changes

And it was that summer of 2006 real Madrid It also started to rebuild itself and made way for new generations at the expense of the old ones consisting of players like Roberto Carlos, Beckham or Gutithat since then their last days as madridistas will begin.

This is also the end of the ‘Yenta of Florentino Pérez’, who left the club in January and now is Ramon Calderon which mandated it in making decisions such as having Pedja Mijatovic as its sports director, in charge of making signings.

take advantage of a panic

And that summer, moreover, is for real Madrid (and for several other clubs) the time to take advantage of the ‘shock’ that appeared at Juventus as a result of its administrative landing. great figures like Cannavaro either Emerson They went to the white team and, in fact, the Italian lifted the title a few months later golden ball as a Real Madrid player.

More than that, the real Madrid signed seniority by signing Ruud Van Nistelrooy from Manchester Utd 30 years old or Mamadou Diarrawho at the age of 25 came from a Lyon Olympics dominant in France. And so it was the summer of a team, the whites, who, to command it all, signed Fabio Capello. But that story is well known.

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