Madrid lose in comparisons with Barça
Real Madrid's twelfth European Cup has given Madridismo wings. They are still drunk on the success of Zinedine Zidane's side. The joy is understandbable, above all because the results reveal their hegemony in Europe in recent years: three Champions Leagues in four years and the first team to win back-to-back Champions Leagues since its modernisation over 20 years ago. But now the euphoria is getting dangerously out of control and there are some who want to re-write history based on that twelfth European Cup.
We have began to read and hear serious comparisons between Zidane's Madrid and Pep Guardiola's Barcelona, a sign that Madridismo has still not digested the suffering they experienced during those glorious years of Barça dominance. Having won a double this season, there's a part of Madridismo that has began to confuse trophies with play and have began to compare themselves with the Barça of Messi, Iniesta and Xavi, the best team which has ever been seen in football. It's one thing that Madrid have deservedly won the Champions League; it's another thing to recognise them as one of the best teams to ever play the sport.
Madrid have shown the pack an impressive punch, that they possess and enviable squad depth and extraordinary ambition, but from there's a abyss between that points and wanting to compete with that Barça side to remembered as the best team in history. As they years have passed, we have learned how Madridismo suffered through that era of Barça success and felt humiliated. Perhaps that's why many are trying to re-write history now.
To win is very difficult, but to win while have the world falls in love with your football is only within the reach of a chosen few. If Madrid genuinely want to enter into that level of football history, they will have to be much more demanding. Because repeating a lie one million times does not make something the truth. As loud as the megaphones proclaim it, Madrid's Zidane, for now, lose in the comparisons with Guardiola's Barcelona side.
