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The Manchester City-Real Madrid match in the quarterfinals of the Champions League was a match for the history of this competition. The white resistance will be studied as one of the most impressive defensive exercises that have occurred in recent years. Penalties decided a tie that ended with a four-goal tie. The match elevated Antonio Rüdiger as the true hero of the night with the decisive penalty that put the whites in the semifinals of the Champions League. The MVP was Fede Valverde, but the German center-back won over the white parish and the popular vote went to him.
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There are two moments that have gone viral on social networks. The first occurred last night and the other in an interview given last year by the former Chelsea defender. The Etihad Stadium was witness and victim of Rüdiger’s attitude from the first minute to the last. The player’s celebration was a 100-meter race towards the visiting area where all the fans who had traveled from Real Madrid to Manchester were to celebrate the pass with them. His celebration was the representation of the madness that was unleashed among all the Madrid supporters around the world. This agonizing, sacrificial and epic victory for the whites in Europe, on yet another magical night, marked a new chapter in the club’s golden history in this competition.
Another of the most viral moments on social networks in recent hours is an interview by Rüdiger in which he confesses why he decided to sign for Real Madrid. He talks first about the offer from PSG that he had to reject before signing for the whites in 2019. “There were many rumors with my signing. You know… And every time PSG appeared, you wrote me a message. But I told you that this is not what I was looking for,” he says before explaining his rejection of the French. “Why did I say no to PSG? In reality, I have nothing against PSG. I think it is a great club, everything is fine. But compared to Real Madrid… Real Madrid,” he added.
The German defender confessed something that we did not know: a letter from Florentino Pérez that he received in 2016. “Florentino wrote me a letter in 2016. I read and had that letter in front of me every day and I asked myself, a man like me? and I said to myself ‘one day I will get there,” said the center back who claimed to see Real Madrid “like a dream.” “When I won the Champions League (with Chelsea), then I knew I could play for Real Madrid. At that moment I knew I was ready to play for Real Madrid,” he concluded.
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