Real Madrid should not play tiki-taka (Marca)

  /  autty

I hate tiki-taka, it bores me, I can't stand it, I can't handle it. The word that Andres Montes created is genius because, when saying tiki-taka, we all know what we are referring to. But, as a style of football, I hate it, and not because Pep Guardiola is its pioneer, nor because Barcelona used it best, no: I wasn't too enthusiastic about how Spain played and, even still, won a World Cup like that. I hate tiki-taka because I've never liked the false forwards but the true forwards, those who score many goals. I also hate tiki-taka because, in general, I've always had a lot of fun with my team, Real Madrid, who have been the opposite throughout their history.

And I hate tiki-taka, because of its pointless possession, that drowsiness that you get waiting for someone to finally thread a pass through the eye of a needle, between the three million legs that wait sat back. How could you not hate such a poor version of football, a more dull and less effective and even, if it were possible, more boring version? How can you not hate that tuku-teke, this taki-toki, this toka-tike that, it seems, Julen Lopetegui wants to introduce to our Real Madrid lives?

On Saturday I surprised myself by yelling and shouting at the television. The message was aimed at a player from my team and, although I did not understand it until ten seconds later, he couldn't hear me. But I insisted: "Shoot, for God's sake, shoot, shoot at the goal, do something!" But no. Back, tuku to the goalkeeper, taki to the wing, toki to the centre and final tike to the box. In order to avoid greater evils, Lopetegui must be told as soon as possible that Real Madrid have never played like this and have still managed to win 33 leagues titles and 13 European cups.

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