Real Madrid “That Castilla has been the best in history”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judV5UMGbLgThis Thursday we recalled in a gathering at MARCA the last ascent of the Castilla to Second, season 11-12, with five of its protagonists, Joselu (Alavs), Married (Greek Xanthi), Juanfran (Alanyaspor), Jes (PSG) and Omar Mascarell (Schalke). That team was champion of his group with authority and in the playoff he knocked down Cdiz with a partial 8-1, 0-3 in the Carranza and 5-1 in the Say Stfano. The generation, led by Toril, has been the best of La Fbrica in 15 years, only comparable to that of the penultimate ascent (2005, with Diego Lpez, Juanfran, Arbeloa, Javi Garca, Borja Valero, Soldado, Jurado, De la Red. ..).
JOSELU:: “It was the beginning of something that I am still living, those two seasons. The first year we could not ascend, but the second year, yes. No one has forgotten anything about that season. It was very special for our career.”
JUANFRAN: “The first year we made the mistake of playing at Bernabu, we saw 50,000 in the stands and it was not good. But the following year the team jumped, with Jes, Omar, with First Division team resources or from Europe, it was crazy. I saw myself and said ‘what am I doing here’, with Lucas on the bench. I really enjoyed it, inside and outside, it was a group of the host. And Toril knew how to handle it, he made us professionals “
MARRIED: “We were a family, we lived outside the country, going to dinner, to the movies, to have a drink, we were a pia. Very united, a very healthy group.”
OMAR: “I was not the undisputed starter, of course, I had only been a year of youth and they already put me up and I did not expect it. I took that year as a sponge, trying to learn as much as possible. And the truth is that it was a year Unbelievable, those moments are sorely missed, I wish we could back down and be able to experience them again. “
JES: “It was a great team, all the players were very good, but there was also a lot of joy, and that spread. It was flowing and we had fun, not only in games, but also in training. I had a great time, I learned a lot. I have a lot to do with my career. “
JUANFRAN: “I entered the locker room and the first weekend we put four to Coruxo and we began to fly. And that year we could not ascend, but the following year is that no one doubted that we were going to ascend (Joselu intervenes and assures” ramos much higher “). You had Joselu who put a brick and put you through the squad, Morata the same, Jes who was leaving four and inside. We went to Cdiz, boom boom, if you flare … It did not matter. I think that Castilla was not seen the same, the career that the players who were there have had. Champions of Europe, Joselu for example, that I have always said that he had to be in white, which is where he should have been Always. I think the club could have gotten more juice from this generation. “
JOSELU: “People thought that we were a very young team. We went to stadiums, to Vigo, to Coruxo, and people insulted us, simply because we were in Madrid. And because we were young, we were going to get tired and it was On the contrary, we would come upstairs. Insults, they would tell us everything, and we would be reinforced. Many First-rate teams will pay to have a squad like that. If we go up to play against the first team and they weren’t able to beat us. We played against the non-starters and we beat them. And we stood up. ”
JUANFRAN: “I remember the night before concentrating on Sancti Petri, playing pilla-pilla, family visits. A tremendous relaxation, and then we arrived at the stadium, flares, the bus could not pass, the driver did not know whether to go back or to stop. in front … And in the 70 ‘people leaving the field “.
JOSELU: “The day before there was a brutal relaxation, in the hotel, we were a group of friends on vacation, running around.”
MARRIED: “And on game day, taking a walk on the beach, barefoot, playing …”.
JES: “I remember very well after the draw that the Cdiz came to laugh at us, they did not value us as a team, they thought they were going to climb easily.”
JOSELU: “It was always like that, we were called by the Madrid children, the posh, the pijitos, that is how they receive us in all fields.”
JES: “As soon as the game ended in Cdiz I returned with Florentino and his wife [en avin privado ] because I had to join the sub-19 team to play a pre-European. Julen was the coach and when everything went well he already told me that I could go. “[[Jes played two games during the week, scored the qualifying goal and was released from the third game. He came back one Saturday and Sunday morning he played and scored the first goal in the return against Cdiz]
JUANFRAN: “And of course when he appeared in the locker room, the Russian (Cheryshev) vinegar, Lucas vinegar … It was that there was 100 million euros on the bench). And I was playing, I am worth one. It is an outrage. that team16-17 players in First Division, who have made a career. And the one that has not arrived has been due to injuries. “
[[Florentino’s wife died between the first and second game, but the president wanted to be next to Castilla and went to the game, where the team kept an emotional minute of silence looking at the box]
JUANFRAN: “We were with her before the game and afterwards, in Cdiz. Florentino entered to greet us in the dressing room and I remember that she was there. He passed away days later. and when we saw him at the stadium, for us it was a shot … “.
JES: “That day marked us a lot”.
JUANFRAN: “And wherever you meet the prisoner, he gives you a hug, he tells you that it seems like yesterday. The love that has always given off that generation is incredible.”
JUANFRAN: “If that team had remained in Second Division, for me we would win LaLiga or we would have fought it. Joselu, Carvajal, more matches than Morata and Nacho that were up .. “.
OMAR: “You give that team two more years and it competes in First Division.”
JES: “If they leave us two or three weeks we will get into promotion. I think we would have been a Madrid two in the First Division. That’s for sure. We had a real team.”
JES: “It is always like this, it has always happened, I have not seen another player who scores more goals with the leg that is not his for the squad.”
JUANFRAN: “He went out in the Bernabu with the Dpor, that he also saw injured, that his knee had been broken, forcing, entered and put a host … And nailed two goals”.
[[The following season, Jes was being the best player of Castilla in Second, but Mourinho did not have him. The player gave MARCA an interview that caused quite a stir].
JES: “I was young, although I still am, he was very impulsive, he said things … I thought at the time that he wanted to be on top, but like everyone else, he was my goal. My way was not to give him a pulse or have an argument. I like to talk to the ball and at that moment I did it. “
MARRIED “I remember an anecdote. We reached the preseason in Los Angeles, to UCLA, summer of 2011. It brings us together Mou In the locker room, one by one, he says a few words to each one, and I remember that he told Jes that he wanted to stay on vacation: “You are a crazy bastard, you did not want to come and I had to call you by phone so that you came to the preseason. “
JUANFRAN: “An atmosphere of attack was created against Mourinho because he did not put Carvajal and Jes, and we should not forget the people who were up there. But there were players who were prepared to make the leap.”
JES AND JUANFRAN: “Joselu was harmed because the bet was Morata. But I valued it, because Joselu It has a lot of personality. I fought everything. “
JOSELU: “When the season ended I was very clear about what I wanted, I had first-rate offers and it was time to leave. They didn’t give me the opportunity to be able to jump. They wanted me to continue in the CastileNot to go up, they had no future plans with me and I said no, because I thought I was capable of taking one more leap. I’m not complaining about that, but that’s how it was. “
JUANFRAN: “You remember lex Fernndez, tied to the wheelchair pulling him down the hill ValdebebasWe left him there and an employee found him. “
JOSELU: “And that we tied him in the bucket of dirty laundry and put it in the master’s office.”
JUANFRAN: “When the players go up to train the first team, the joke of the red ass. The one who had gone up, we would take his pants down, he would put himself down and give him a good slap, and if he refused, we would throw a mattress over him, We burst. I remember going to the room of Jes and tell us’hey hey hey, easy going‘. Quietly lower your pants … and receive. Red ass, red ass! “
MARRIED: “The fight of Nacho and lex, the ‘fire hair’. It was a double area. Nacho it was strong for lex And this one was smaller, but he threw a couple of eggs and they tied it up in bits. But it was funny because it was like watching a brother fight but on the field. And we had to go to separate but we were all laughing. Nacho thought he was not going to do anything to him but he turned around … “.
JUANFRAN: “There was another one of Jes with Isaac Becerra, who was the third goalkeeper. Jes in the middle of the field and Calf in the caretaker, nothing a normal itch, but Calf How would the click on the head hit him … He sprinted to where he was Jes, Jes I don’t know how he stopped because I see this coming and I fly away[bill[cuentaJuanfran]and between four of us we managed to stop him, and he was caught, like he was a superman trying to hit him. Jes he takes off his heart rate monitor and starts banging his head. Crazy. And also that of Carvajal and Mandi. The one with the ball, a ball of 50 meters and pam, hits Mandi all over the neck. And he goes and says Carva, ‘to take away’. Approaches Mandi and smack. Carva, which was very funny, goes and says: “I deserve it, if I deserve it.”
MARRIED: “Is that Jes Has many. The year of the promotion the numbers were from 1 to 11, and on the far left it was the 11th. And one day he gave the alignment Toril and Jes with the 11. And Jes: “I don’t play, or with 10 or I don’t play”, what Omar points: “Yes, yes, he said ‘what do you think I am, Overmars? “
JES: “I can’t deny anything. It was a time when I was very young, the important thing is to play, the number doesn’t matter”.
JUANFRAN: “TO Jes it happens to him like Christian, that you see him from the outside and you can think something else, but you know him and he has a heart … He is a good guy. I have laughed a lot with him. “
JOSELU: “Do you remember when we filled the shower with water and we slipped? Mandi He threw himself one day and burst the wall and we were caught by one of the club that we did not let him in, ‘outside’, ‘outside’. And the water that reached our clothes. “
OMAR: “I think so, but not only soccer, but everything, global, day by day, we enjoyed other things”
JOSELU: “After that I have never lived a year like that.”
JES: “We were all very good, but what marked us was how we were companions. That year will always be special.”
JUANFRAN: “What football gave me that year has not been provided by any other year. In the end I think it is the best Castilla in history.”
JOSELU: “A Castilla like that is not going to be repeated in history. Even if they rise. What we had there was …”
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