The “Ancelotti talisman” who travels with Real Madrid, but cannot play in the Champions League – 2024-05-02 22:52:24

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The “Ancelotti talisman” who travels with Real Madrid, but cannot play in the Champions League

Puerto Rican Jeremy de León, as happened for the match in Manchester against City, traveled with the Real Madrid squad to Germany for the game against Bayern, despite not even being registered to play in the Champions League.

Puerto Rican soccer player Jeremy de León is considered a talisman. (Free Press Photo: EFE)

Real Madrid arrived on the morning of Monday, April 29, in Munich, where this Tuesday the 30th they will play the first leg of the Champions League semifinals against Bayern, with a novelty, the presence of Puerto Rican Jeremy de León along with the entire team of his team. first team.

This also happened in the second leg of the quarterfinals, when Real Madrid beat Manchester City.

Jeremy is a young Puerto Rican soccer player who arrived at the Merengue team in January, but to reinforce Real Madrid Castilla, the reserve team. So You cannot participate in the Champions League as you are not registered.

However, despite this, Carlo Ancelotti has not hesitated to call the player who is under the orders of Raúl González at Real Madrid Castilla to the European competition for the second time despite the fact that he does not have a leading role and has only played 79 minutes in 5 matches.

Quickly Real Madrid fans began calling Jeremy the “Ancelotti talisman” on social mediaargued that Ancelotti’s decision to include him in the European expedition despite the fact that he cannot count on him on the pitch is due to a superstition that it will bring him luck, as would have happened against Manchester City.

However, it was the white coach himself who was in charge of denying this in a press conference prior to the match against Bayern Munich.

“It’s not Kabbalah“Ancelotti clarified in the press room of the Allianz Arena where Jeremy de León was one more in Real Madrid’s last training session on the eve of the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern.

“When we train we want to have 20 players and we were 19 available. Sometimes, in the last games we have brought Jeremy because, speaking with Raúl, he trains very well, he is very serious and he contributes to us in training. He is a young man who has a lot quality,” he explained.