The Real Madrid shows that in football not always is the money that wins. (Yahoo)

Football’s World is impressed by the terrific goaling suffered by the millionaire Real Madrid vs the humble Alcorcón, a small club placed at scarcely thirteen kilometers to the South East of the Spanish metropolis and that is in the sixth position of its Group in the Contest of Second B (third) , that goaled the whites 4-0 for the start match of the sixteenth of final of the King’s Cup.

The incredible embarrassing of Real Madrid vs the Alcorcón, a club fans of which are in majority sympathizers also of the whites and when the match ended in the humble stadium, the same approximated in mass to ask for autographs of the losers, there is no comparison in the budget of ones and the others and moreover knowing that the difference in results could have been even higher.


The Spanish press titled their covers with hard words such as “shame” or “Pellegrini go away at once”, in reference with the Chilean engineer who since this season is training in the Real Madrid what meant a total renewal of the team, with a new direction, that of the president Florentino Pérez, who together with Sport director, the Argentine Jorge Valdano, were returning triumphal after having withdrawn due to the crisis of February 27, 2006.

In that opportunity, Pérez convoked for a press conference in which he declared that “from where I go out, I do not come back” and that “we say too often to the players that they are the best in the world and I did not know to educate them in sacrifice and effort”. It does not seem thing changed substantially between that speech of three and a half years ago and this crisis that does not seem to arrive to an end because it is not easy to go out from a goaling so uneasy as that one, leaving ridiculous the club that wasted more money in registrations in the last decade and that neither can afford the excuse of not having used vs the Alcorcón its most valued players as Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Without them, but with other stars, the Real Madrid has been already eliminated by another humble team, Real Irún, in the last season and for the King’s Cup though in that occasion they received nothing less but six goals in two matches. Even so, the ridicule of the defeat of this week may be considered as the major the entity had ever in more then one century of existence and the team of which was considered by the FIFA as the best of the XX century.

Moreover the disaster of the rendering of the last matches, since the surprising fall vs the Milan 2-3 for the phase of groups of the Champions League in their own stadium Santiago Bernabeu, after that the Spanish sportive press minimized the Italians qualifying them previously as old, that derived in a low self-estimation and in a posteriors low rendering vs Sporting Gijon in Asturias for the League (0-0), it should be imperiously analyzed how dies it operates in a group to know that there must be obtained an important result in the season due to the enormous effort in inversions that have been performed.

Everything indicated that Pellegrini was the right coach who did not transmit pressures and losing his stars to try to play football of high flight. As Perez and Valdano were spreading around and so is proving the average of 3,5 goals per match of the first weeks, though we said in this same column when we were comparing the Real Madrid with Barcelona that differently from the Catalonians it seemed to us that the whites formed a team more counter hitter than of good play and will have problems at home because they are obliged to go for a result.

In a few weeks, since the injury of Cristiano Ronaldo, it seems a lie that with so many players, the Real Madrid can depend so mucho on him, it seemed that Pellegrini entered in the same round as other coaches that were eaten by this absurd machinery of wasting money, bad treatment of very good players and quickly throwing them in the garbage to replace by others in fashion.

The feeling is that not only Pellegrini, of proved capacity in managing of the group and in render of teams, is the one that cannot make this Real Madrid to advance, but there is no coach in the world who in this context may obtain a rendering that is looked for, because the pressure is such that exists from the media, the society and football in general and the fans, that everything seems not much taking into account the initial investment.

And at the same time, that goaling of Alcorcón represents a great lesson for the directives of Real Madrid meaning that the football is not like mathematics, and the sum of eleven cracks does not give as result a team. Otherwise, it would be very easy and would always be champion the one that has more money.

A team must be worked, molded, and is composed of many persons, characters, contexts and the Real Madrid wanted to cut route to emulate its rival, Barcelona, by the mean of check book. Luckily, though the big players are very important along the season, the football continues being an exceptional sport due to which the most humble can impose to the powerful.

At this point, with his former experience, Perez should have known it.