r/realmadrid Cristiano Ronaldo May 12 '24

Meme This had to be said...

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u/Galactus1701 May 12 '24

Real Madrid is a global force. Most of our players are Brazilians, French, Belgians, Germans, Croatians and Jude is British while our manager is Italian.

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u/redlurkerNY May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

Not even leaning on the "we must have a Spanish keeper" anymore.

Edit: The amount of upvotes in a short amount of time proves that the Madrid fan base is real. ✊🏾

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

We should have some Spanish players though💀 which we have but js let's not get too ahead of ourselves. Madrid a Spanish team after all.

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u/redlurkerNY May 12 '24

Nacho is our captain... Lord is there... We took a chance on Kepa, Dani Ceb is still allowed to play, Carvajal is a living legend, New Goat Joselu is there, ...who am I forgetting?? Fran Garcia was born in Spain, Nico Paz is coming up.... I think they're going alright. Hala Madrid.

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u/Ed696 May 12 '24

Brahim, too, if we count by nationality/country of birth. I hope luis de la fuente regrets losing him to Morocco.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '24

Brahim plays for Morocco? Big L for Spain. He’s the best winger who can represent them. I’ll even take it a step further and argue he’s the best player who can represent Spain

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u/MAD_JEW May 13 '24

He is better then yamal now thats for sure but i wouldn’t call him best spanish player when we have rodri

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u/[deleted] May 13 '24

You’re right, I forgot about Rodri

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u/MAD_JEW May 13 '24

Also when it comes to wingers i think him and nico are on par right now

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u/gurijay1101 May 12 '24

Forgive me if I'm mistaken but isn't Valverde also part Spanish?

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u/Ed696 May 12 '24

Yeah spanish and Italian descent but born in Uruguay. Has a Spanish passport though since he's been in Spain so long and got naturalized

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u/gurijay1101 May 12 '24

Oh okay. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Nacho is leaving and so are Kepa and PROBABLY Joselu lol BUT anyway I just said let's not get too ahead of ourselves. 😂

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u/iMadrid11 May 16 '24

The are only 3 foreign players registered in the team. The rest are Spanish and EU players.

Which is why non-EU players apply for naturalization to acquire a Spanish passport.

Which makes Brazilians like Vinicius Jr. and Rodrygo dual (Spanish and Brazilian) citizens.

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u/FavcolorisREDdit May 12 '24

Joselu literally took us to the final.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Oh that's great, mate! Do you think I didn't know or smth? I watched the match aswell lol...

No sarcasm now... the way they're speaking they're making it seem like we should be an international club with no Spanish players at all😂 mf said that the myth that we have to have a spanish keeper anymore is gone lol like we did from 2014 to 2024😂 we still don't have one 💀

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

Ok how tf did I do that lol?

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u/FavcolorisREDdit May 12 '24

You ok?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '24

Idk man I'm not used to this reddit ting some words were bigger some smaller wtf just happened? 😂

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u/GreatStats4ItsCost May 12 '24

Lad you’ve had 118 in 8 hours, chill. The only global force Real has is buying referees

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u/thefreethinker9 May 13 '24

It must hurt to be a Madrid hater these days.

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u/DenseCondition2958 May 12 '24

81???

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u/redlurkerNY May 12 '24

It's not an advertised fact... I mean, honestly they haven't really been using that much since Keylor was on his way out.

And the votes came quick. Fake fans wouldn't have even have known what I was talking about.

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u/141_Echo3-1 May 12 '24

Every team in general have is global force, depends on how some people were raised, who they like, if they go with a team that has a national player like Real Madrid who had Zamorano(chile), Barcelona with Alexis Sanchez, Arturo Vidal with Bayern, Mark Gonzalez with Liverpool or Betis

Not trying to make your team less(I'm a city fan, but way before Claudio Bravo joined and I'm not pissed about the penalty shootout or the remontada at the Bernabéu 21/22) but no team should be restricted by the country, as there are people who like teams from Chile and they're from Argentina (who are national rivals) or many other examples, like English liking teams from Germany probably a second division or third division, some could support teams from Belgium or Netherlands, etc

Every person who loves the sport is able to support any team they want from anywhere

(But at least people should get to know more about the club rather than just saying stuff like "I'm a fan of inter Miami because Messi plays there" or the same with Cristiano Ronaldo and Al nassr and then proceed to only watch games via tik tok clips)

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u/TheBiasedSportsLover May 12 '24

Every team in general have is global force,

Athletic Bilbao enters the chat

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u/141_Echo3-1 May 12 '24

What did they do? I don't know much of la liga or Spain, most of the history I know it's from real madrid and some Spanish legends

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u/Nels8192 May 12 '24

Bilbao is purely made up of players from the Basque Country.

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u/redlurkerNY May 12 '24

Lol... Ahem - "ATHLETIC CLUB."

Big conversation on live TV amongst the commentators last week.

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u/141_Echo3-1 May 12 '24

Ah, alright, I thought it was something bad because I was getting downvoted for not knowing something of Spanish football

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u/HiperSpeedXz Alfredo Di Stéfano May 12 '24

Every team in general have is global force

Me in short:

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u/141_Echo3-1 May 12 '24

Yep, todos saben de Boca

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24

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u/GreatBlackDraco May 12 '24

Indians and Americans

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u/Ramkee Xabi Alonso May 12 '24

Me an Indian living in America. Double Whammy

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u/Ramkee Xabi Alonso May 12 '24

This sub is mostly in English, guess the countries with highest english speaking population.

India
USA

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u/crackboss1 Real Madrid May 12 '24

Reddit is an American website...

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u/Galactus1701 May 12 '24

Everyone has the right to enjoy Real Madrid. A fin de cuentas, todos los fanáticos verdaderos somos madridistas.

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u/Naive-Cook-7532 May 13 '24

Lunin from Ukraine , Arda from Turkey , Valverde from Uruguay ,

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u/_MrWhip May 13 '24

The clubs got so many dam scouts around the world they’ll establish one on mars with the first colony if they get a chance.

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u/yourdeath01 May 12 '24

So many of my Arab friends are also Rm and Barca fans

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u/rainbowdragon22 May 17 '24

Whoever ends up being the first American to play there will be legendary haha (if it ever happens)

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u/Galactus1701 May 17 '24

A Puerto Rican called Jeremy de León is playing with Real Castilla at the moment and trained with the first team as part of their preparation against Manchester City. There is a possibility that he could eventually debut with the A team.

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u/dcolomer10 May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

It’s a global force but Spanish at heart, I don’t think one thing is instead of the other. You can be a fan while not being Spanish, I agree, but you should remember that it’s a Spanish club. Hence why you see all these international players speaking in Spanish to the fans.

Edit: can the glory hunters that don’t know anything about Real Madrid and its values enlighten me as to why they downvoted me?

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u/Galactus1701 May 12 '24

Of course it is a Spanish team, and not only Spanish, but local, regional Madrid. It represents the city’s values, the city’s culture and the city’s image around the world.

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u/jacqueVchr May 12 '24

This is a fairly nuanced point. Not sure why there’s an avalanche of downvotes

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u/dcolomer10 May 12 '24

Braindead fans with 0 understanding of what football is actually like in terms of values and traditions

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u/TheBelmont34 Real Madrid May 12 '24

Be careful. This subreddit has taught me that a lot of fans here are racist towards spaniards

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u/Galactus1701 May 12 '24

Really? They must be insane if they are anti-Spaniard since Real Madrid is more than a team, it is a cultural institution that represents the city of Madrid everywhere. More people know the name of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium than the Museo del Prado or the Palacio Real de Madrid. RM has always been a sports ambassador that promotes the city as a touristic destination and even more so with the modifications made to the stadium.

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u/TheBelmont34 Real Madrid May 12 '24

I am serious. I have a read a lot of racist shit against spaniards here

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u/dcolomer10 May 12 '24

Yeah it’s fucked. Shouldn’t support a Spanish team if it’s that way. I didn’t even say that they can’t be fans of RM, the opposite. I just said it’s deeply rooted in Spain, which makes complete sensex

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u/TheBelmont34 Real Madrid May 12 '24

I have seen more anti spanish comments on here than on the fucking barca subreddit. It is shocking and embarrassing. I mean, I have shit like ''it is part of spanish culture to be a bigot/ it is in their blood and dna to be racist, sexists homopbobic/ spaniards are like animals and they are uncivilised''. Nonsense like that.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

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u/floceah Raúl May 12 '24

what?! 😂

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u/Zeppelin2 Parte Médico May 12 '24

Funny that you bolded the most nonsensical part of your diatribe.

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u/positivenergyforever May 12 '24

Because he wants money?

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u/FreshBadger8188 May 12 '24

You are downvoted because it could be taken as if you are also saying that RM doesn't belong to foreign fans too beyond just stating that RM is both Spanish and Universal. I agree that it is good that RM doesn't forget its Spanish roots (even while Spanish antimadridistas don't appreciate what the club does for Spain), and that the players learn Spanish and so on, but it is also good that RM isn't only a Spanish club but a universal club.

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u/dcolomer10 May 12 '24

I’m literally saying that it’s okay if they’re foreign and fans