Mouth He is the last Argentine to become world champion and he is also the second to last. He was also the last to win a final against Real Madrid for more than 15 years. And in all that it had a lot to do Carlos Bianchi, with all its wisdom and handling of extreme situations like an Intercontinental. Jorge Bermúdez, today a member of the Boca football council and yesterday captain of the world champion team, made it clear why the Viceroy was what he was and won what he won when recounting a situation that they lived in the Tokyo stadium before the 2000 final against the Galacticos.
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“Casillas, Hierro, Figo, players who showed their sufficiency when we were in the tunnel. They looked at us as if we weren’t there,” Bermúdez started to report on Fox Sports. “They they looked at us over their shoulders, they didn’t even know who we were. They only knew Palermo, the rest of us were South American players with no experience in Europe, “he added.
Bianchi had already shown his experience of not having gone to the stadium the day before, taking into account the large amount of traffic that was in Tokyo and that they had already trained there. “In order not to generate greater nerves or emotional needs, in addition to traffic,” said the Skipper.
Boca celebrates and Madrid cannot believe it, after 2-1 in the Intercotinental 2000 final.
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And he continued with what happened on the field of play with rival players: “Bianchi told us ‘when these guys take them seriously, they will lose, and it will be difficult for them to return to the game’. And he was right. “
The rest of the story is known: Palermo opened the game at 2 and scored the second at 6, Riquelme broke it and, although Real Madrid discounted at 11, he could not trace the result. And Boca was world champion.
