“I will fight with all my strength so that football continues to be the king of sports”
The president of Real Madrid receives the ‘Golden Boy Best President’ award from ‘Tuttosport’
MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, assured that the Santiago Bernabéu will never bear his name since the club “owes everything” to the former president, although he does not rule out that the sports city can be named in his honor, and on the other hand he stressed that He will fight to change football and keep it the “world king sport”, after winning the ‘Golden Boy Best President’ award.
“The stadium will never bear my name, it will be called Santiago Bernabéu forever. He was the one who created all this, we only continued his work. He wanted this stadium in 1947, a very ambitious project. Everything that we are, we owe to him” , assured Florentino Pérez in an interview with the Italian media ‘Tuttosport’, who delivers the ‘Golden Boy’ award.
In addition, he added that the name of the stadium “is already a brand.” “The youngsters, perhaps, don’t know who the Bernabéu was, but they say ‘see you at the Bernabéu’. If they want, they can give my name to the sports city, but the stadium will forever be the Santiago Bernabéu”, he stressed.
What does change is the world, in general, and football. And there, without naming the Super League, he assured that it must evolve. “In the last 20 years the world has changed and football cannot not adapt to that. It is the only universal and global sport, we cannot allow other sports that are more organized and apt to change to take advantage of that to take away this privilege”, he pointed out.
“We must not allow young people to move away from football because we offer less attractive matches. We are working for that and I will fight with all my strength so that football does not lose its privileged position and continues to be the king of sports on all continents,” he said. the white leader.
As for the award received, he assured that it is a “pride”. “It has been a magical season, one of the best in our history, we won practically everything. The ‘Champions’ came in a spectacular way, beating PSG, Chelsea, City and Liverpool. The nights at the Bernabéu were magical: when everything seemed lost , there was a miracle thanks to the union between fans and players”, he recalled.
“I dedicate the award to our fans, who are 100 million on all continents, 500 million follow us on social networks. We start each season as if we hadn’t won anything in the previous one”, he pointed out regarding the hunger to continue winning Titles.
He also highlighted the quality of Karim Benzema, already a Ballon d’Or winner. “Benzema’s secret is that he is the best in the world. I remember when we signed him in 2009, I went to his house because he was a 20-year-old boy. He was a mix between Zidane’s class and Ronaldo’s explosiveness. It has improved over time, he had been deserving the Ballon d’Or for two years”, he argued.
“Ancelotti is the best coach for Real Madrid, because he has known us for many years. He knows how to transmit our values ??to the players and that makes him the perfect coach. It is difficult to find someone better”, he assured of the current coach of the first equipment.
