ô capitaine ! mon capitaine !

[cibeles]

I've waxed poetic about his words before, back right before the Mallorca match, in relation to the rest of the team, but it feels necessary right now to do it again in relation to Raúl himself. And of course that means in relation to the club because it is his club, because they are intertwined and inescapable. Because his team loses and stays

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[pippopippo]

Your football essays never fail to touch me. ♥

[cibeles]

Congratulations on somehow managing to wade through all of that so quickly. Goodnight ♥

[pippopippo]

It's quite an honor, thank you; I hope you sleep well.

[cibeles]

An honour? I didn't know it was an honour to rot your brains out with sentimentality, but there you go.
(I'm trying. Three hours wasn't enough; I should crawl back into bed again.)

[aeroporto]

Raúl is the kind of player that you cannot hate because even if he plays for someone else's least favorite team, he has that undying loyalty that you can only respect. They don't make footballers like Raúl anymore. He's part of a rare breed of players who never even dream of leaving their team, even in the darkest of times. While other players may go on to other clubs, be it for trophies, money, or whatever, Raúl stays. He always stays.

And you can never write him off because he will always come back.

And now I'm babbling.

[cibeles]

You know we basically always agree on everything. Ever.

♥

[pressao]

Raúl =)

what's football without these severe biases we cherish and encourage?
LOL you're telling me.

I cannot imagine football without Raúl. I dread the day he retires. He's already been as good as let go from Aragones. I STILL cannot come to terms with that. I won't understand it for as long as Aragones is coach.

He's the captain of captains. I cannot think of who better but Raúl (even Gerrard doesn't come close).

Cheers mate.

[cibeles]

It's going to be horrible when he retires - like what I wrote about Zidane in those picspams, it's a loss to football when he leaves it. Not for Zidane's technical brilliance, though; it's for Raúl's leadership and his willingness to just always, always keep going even when people have written him off.

♥

[pressao]

I've never seen him in a bad rut. I've never remembered a time where he gave up and that's admirable.

[rebelstrike21]

he wants to be here, even losing

He's a true captain, through and trough. ♥
(which is why i'm a bit miffed at him not being called up for Spain)

[cibeles]

Indeed he is.

And I've come to terms with Aragonés being a racist idiot, so I'm almost over it. But it was incredible to hear all the fans when they took the trophy out at the Madrid town hall or whatever it was: they kept chanting Guti and Raúl's names in conjunction with 'la selección'. Quite moving indeed.

[parallelkites]

This puts my Harry rant to shame, it really does.

[cibeles]

Don't think of it quite like that; I just get terribly, terribly carried away when I'm talking about Real Madrid. You all know that ;)