Alkorta likes Romario on his Twitch

On January 8, 1994, FC Barcelona beat Real Madrid 5-0 at the Camp Nou. Thirty years after the Classic loss, the history of that match also contains an intra-history very reminiscent of a victim and his executioner. Fans of a certain age and also very passionate ones

Clásico, you will no doubt remember the play that marked that match: the legendary ‘cow’s tail’ from Barça striker Romario da Souza to white defender Rafa Alkorta, prelude to what was the first of five goals celebrated by the culé team, three of them with the signature of the brilliant Brazilian. In fact, the technical gesture baptized as ‘cow’s tail’ has spread to the general public in a European football that is not used to seeing that great drag, so no one has forgotten how to classify that resource in later imitators. The one who forgets this is, surely, the one who suffered it, the Alkorta.

As revealed by the former soccer player, who is now 55 years old, he tries to interview Romario on his new Twitch channel with a lapidary argument. “Hey, man, I’ve been hearing about ‘f… cow’s tail’ for 30 years! And now you’re not going to give me 5 minutes to talk to you?” This is how Alkorta explained with humor to the SER network.

In the three decades since the legendary dribble, there hasn’t been an interview where Alkorta hasn’t had to answer about that Romario ‘reverse’. Last November, in El Mundo, for example, I remembered that “I won more matches than I lost”, in reference to his two long periods at Athletic Bilbao (from 1987 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002) and his cycle at Real Madrid (from 1993 to 1997), which led him to wear the Spanish national team shirt 55 times and play in three World Cups.

Alkorta has a leading role on Twicht every Monday at 11:30 am and his hope, as he himself moves forward, is that Romario will soon explain to him how he did that job.