Bellingham Surpasses Zidane: Real Madrid’s Impressive New Signing

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At 21 years old, Real’s new signing is off to an impressive start at the club, with brands that refer to two idols of this century: French midfielder Zinedine Zidane and Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo.

Even though I’m not a professional striker, Bellingham has 13 goals in his first 13 games for Real, repeating the feat of CR7 at the beginning of the 2009/10 season. The Portuguese played for nine years at Real and left in 2018 as the top scorer in Real’s history (450 goals in 438 matches).

1 of 1 Jude Bellingham scores the winning goal for Real Madrid over Barcelona in stoppage time — Photo: REUTERS/Albert Gea Jude Bellingham scores the winning goal for Real Madrid over Barcelona in stoppage time — Photo: REUTERS/Albert Gea

The comparison with Zidane begins with the number 5 on his shirt, which the Frenchman wore during his time as a Real player, from 2001 until he ended his career in 2006. During his 18 years as a professional, Only once did Zidane reach ten goals in a national league in the same season (1992/93, for Bordeaux). And in his most high-scoring seasons, Zizou scored 12 goals in 2001/02 and 2002/03, both for Real, counting all competitions.

Bellingham, 20, has already left Zidane’s two statistics behind. And the Espanyol’s isolated top scorer, with ten goals (Zizou has never exceeded nine in LaLiga), and has 13 goals, including the three he has already scored in the Champions League.

– Bellingham looks like a veteran, has a great attitude. Right now, it makes a lot of difference. We are surprised by him, he has scored a lot of goals – praised Real coach Carlo Ancelotti.

The veteran coach stated that he does not care about individual awards, which is why he is not worried about the position that Bellingham may reach in the France Football Ballon d’Or election on Monday. But he manages to make an optimistic prognosis for the rest of the season for “top scorer” Bellingham.

– It could reach 20 or 25 goals, because it started very well. We don’t see him as a goalscorer, he said.

2023-10-29 09:00:15
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