2023-07-12 11:56:43
Real Madrid and Barcelona presented a “lesson” in the past days… What is it?
Modric and Ter Stegen (web)
In sports in general and football in particular, the team leader enjoys prestige and favor. As he is the person who is the face of his team and his club, and he is the person entrusted with the task of leading the team and conveying what the coach decides to the players and motivating his colleagues, as well as being present to solve problems if they occur with the opposing team in matches, as well as objecting to a decision here or there. When refereeing matches.
Accordingly, the team leader must have characteristics that come at the forefront of strength of character, discipline, leadership personality, calmness, endurance of pressure, an attempt to accommodate everyone, and, in short, to be a role model.
Therefore, the matter is not without competition between the players for the leadership of the team that reaches the limits of quarrels between them, and other players aspire to become leaders in their teams due to the privileges of the team leader and the importance of his role.
These days we were facing a “lesson” presented by two great and historic clubs in world football, Real Madrid and Barcelona.
As most coaches tend to choose star players or players with experience and achievements as leaders for their teams, the choice of Real Madrid and Barcelona was different, “surprising” and somewhat surprising to many, especially since we are talking regarding two teams such as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Nacho Fernandez (web)
Nacho, captain of Real Madrid
Beginning with Real Madrid, where coach Carlo Ancelotti found himself faced with the task of choosing a new captain following the former captain of the team, French star Karim Benzema, left his ranks to join the Saudi Al-Ahly team.
It seemed “surprising” to many that Ancelotti’s choice would be Nacho Fernandez, and this astonishment is due to the presence of stars in the team with many experience and personal achievements, led by Croatian Luka Modric, who was crowned with the Golden Ball in 2018, and the best player in the world from “FIFA” in 2018. , and the best player in the 2018 World Cup, and the runner-up of that tournament with the Croatian national team, especially since he is 37 years old, in addition to his German colleague Toni Kroos, world champion with Germany in 2014, despite the fact that Nacho is not a big name in the team and cannot be compared between him and his stardom. These two players.
Sergi Roberto (web)
Sergi Roberto, captain of Barcelona
The same applies to Barcelona, u200bu200bwhere the coach of the team, Xavi Hernandez, found himself faced with the task of choosing a new captain following the previous captain, Sergio Busquets, left “Barca” to join Inter Miami. The German Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who is considered a big name in the team and is more stellar, and he, like Roberto, is the remaining two of the 2015 team that crowned the European Champions League title. He also played more matches than Roberto, and he had countless achievements in the last season in which he starred. With Barcelona, and more than that, and most importantly, Ter Stegen plays a key while Roberto does not play a key, and it is an important issue in choosing the captain of the team.
But what seems clear is that Ancelotti and Xavi, as they express the decision in Real Madrid and Barcelona, turned to these two options, taking into account the “principle” before stardom and achievements.
In the cases of Nacho and Roberto, two captains from Real Madrid and Barcelona were chosen. As Nacho grew up in the Real Madrid Academy since 2001 and played his first match with the first team in 2011, Roberto also grew up in the Barcelona Academy and then became a player in the first team in 2010.
This “principle” says that priority is given to the son of the club in which he grew up since childhood, and lived with it since his childhood, and he used to come to his exercises with his parents, and his love and attachment to the club became instinctive, without diminishing the association of the stars, as mentioned above, with their teams.
More important than that is professionalism, as others accept the club’s decision. No criticism is heard from here or noise from there regarding the issue, except for the leader’s voice whispering to his colleagues: “The team, not the person, is above all.”
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