It was Raul's last day at Real Madrid.July 26, 2010. Bernabeu honorary meeting hall. Raul officially said goodbye to the Bernabeu. In his brief speech, full of reluctance. He then walked out of the conference hall to meet the thousands of Real Madrid fans waiting at the Bernabeu Stadium. Under his feet is the turf that has been stepped on for sixteen years, and behind him are sixteen trophies watered by sweat and youth. Just at this moment all this is not worth Raul wipe tears when the light wipe, more touching people's hearts.
In Spain Raul and Madrid to in the invisible connected as one. That is a hyphenated term, Raul Madrid. On the day of Raul's departure, Madrid's most famous sports newspapers, without sadness, said: today, we use Raul Madrid for the last time, the name we have used countless times. On this day, Raul was on the front page of Marca for the forty-first time. In 1994, when Raúl González appeared on the front page of Marca for the first time, perhaps no one realized that it was the beginning of the making of a legend. It was written to accompany Real Madrid for sixteen years. Now he's just coming to an end, not the end. The shouts of joy still seem to echo in our ears as we travel back in time to 1992, when 15-year-old Raúl knocked on the door of another club in the same city, Real Madrid, due to the disbanding of the Atlético de Madrid youth academy. But this is not the era of Real Madrid is unbeatable, ninety to ninety-four years, is Barcelona dominated the La Liga. In the glory of the four consecutive titles, there was also their five-nil trampling on Real Madrid. Ninety-four ninety-five season, seventeen years and four months of Raul, debut in the La Liga, before the trip, the mother gave her son's embrace and blessing, opened the most heartwarming chapter of Raul's story. It was Real Madrid's match against Zaragoza, only Raul missed the chance to score twice. But the strong desire to score made then coach Baldano determined to keep giving him chances. In the second match Raul's first goal was scored. The opponent was his old club, Atletico Madrid. It wasn't Raul's fault that he was already destined to become a natural enemy of Atletico during his days at the new Bernabeu. Raul was lucky that in his first season in La Liga, Real Madrid won the league title over Barcelona. Raul made 28 appearances in the season, contributing nine goals. On the day of the championship, Raul wrote in his diary: Real Madrid fans have not bathed in the fountain of the Harvest Goddess Square for five years. Now my ideal is to win back the Champions League. He a trophy we have lost remarkable 30 years. "In the second season of joining La Liga, Raul increased his goal count to nineteen. Also scored his first goal in the national derby with Barcelona. This year, at the age of nineteen, Raul had his first taste of parting. The first mentor he gained at Real Madrid, manager Baldano, announced his departure. In later describing his La Liga leader, Raul said that without him, people would not see the Raul of today. With Capello's arrival, Raul was relegated to a number three center forward, shifting from his customary left side to the right. Although further away from the goal, he still scored twenty-one goals this season, reaping his second La Liga title. In the 1997-98 season, the battle between Real Madrid boss Heynckes and Barcelona boss Van Gaal continued. Ronaldo's starlight still shines. Though suppressed by Barcelona in the league, Real Madrid beat the mighty Juventus in the Champions League final in Amsterdam, returning to the top of Europe after 32 years. 21-year-old Raúl realized his dream at the age of 18. And in his story. The most glorious chapter of the night is yet to come. 1998 Toyota Cup, Raul has let us appreciate the true color of a mature scorer. The goal that sealed the win allowed the Whites to take home their second trophy that year. In 1999 Spain in the Camp Nou stadium filled with 100,000 people, he made the fearless shut-up gesture. 2000 Champions Cup final, he ran fifty meters against the interference of Jugiqi, the face of the goalkeeper's attack, chose the smartest way to score. 2001, 24-year-old Raul has a golden age, his goals are as precious as gold. This is a young Raul, streaming sharp short hair, heroic. This is the happiest Raul, he enjoys the glory of the soccer field, enjoy the applause and worship on the field. So we can see, Harvest Goddess Square, the young gentleman who tied the scarf for the goddess with his own hands. The Goddess of Harvest, who has witnessed all the ups and downs of Real Madrid, has watched her child grow up a little bit. Finally, one day, he became the prince of the Bernabeu. It was only then that we were able to see the gladiator who, after winning his third league title, waved his cape and danced the bullfight. The bright stars of the Bernabeu, compared with the center of the stage Raul, all dimmed. Also, at this time, and even later, we countless times to relive that belongs only to Raul and his wife's affectionate kiss. June 1, 1999, Raul and his wife married, and from then on, after every successful shot on goal, Raul will bow his head and kiss the wedding ring on the ring finger. When the joy of scoring a goal and the love of telling to his wife, Raul's deep love and elegance has been invested to every person who is impressed by him. The Lord of the Rings became his nickname. Love made Raul change, he gave up celebrating every goal with the traditional high-fives and open arms, he went from refusing to accept his partner's hugs to taking the initiative to embrace his teammates. Raul became the center of the Bernabeu. This is still an open-minded Raul, in the most infinitely close to the peak of personal honor in 2001, he was: the European Golden Ball Award in the selection of the second, in the world soccer Mr. selection of the third. Many people for him to say: "There can not be found a person like Raul, he has always maintained the best competitive state in a number of years." But Raul simply said, "My greatest wish is to win honors for Real Madrid, not me personally." Raul did help Real Madrid achieve the club's greatest achievement in fifty years, winning the European Champions Cup three times in six years, the La Liga title twice, and even the European Super Cup and the Toyota Cup in their arms. It was also one of Raul's most carefree years, as he won the La Liga Golden Boot twice and also topped the Champions League scoring charts in the 2000-2001 season.
The Prince of the Bernabeu had the color white implanted in his marrow. The goddess of harvest has witnessed the saga. 2003, when the old captain Yero said goodbye to the Bernabeu, there was no one more qualified to wear the captain's armband than Raúl, but Raúl has since lost the joy of making the Bernabeu his paradise. The Bernabeu has been transformed into a galactic battleship, Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo and Beckham *** with sharing the capacity of this luxury battleship. That year, Real Madrid visited China for the first time. They wandered around the spring city of Kunming for a few days, and returned to Spain with a 4-0 victory and great commercial rewards. Although Raul's popularity was as high as any superstar's, and the fervor was even higher, Raul's position in the mastermind Real Madrid's president Florentino's scheme was beginning to falter. 420 million worth of superstars, and Real Madrid's three consecutive years of the league title without the current status quo is like a satirical skit, the season of 0405, Raul experienced a six-month-long goal drought in his career. But in terms of athletic statistics, Raul has returned to the back of the net sixty-seven percent more often than in all Real Madrid matches, and the chances of dropping back thirty meters to get the ball have risen by seventeen percent. Raul has moved away from the opposition's penalty area to become an authentic contact for assists and defense. With the helplessness of Queiroz and the boredom of the Bernabeu, Raul had to distance himself from his heroics as a striker. The captain's armband also made him lose the decisiveness and determination of a killer. However, his role as a leader is becoming more and more obvious. In the second round of the national derby with Barcelona, Raul, who has not scored in the national derby for three seasons, finally broke through Barcelona's door once again. The strong desire to score, so that Raul's scrambling exceptionally positive. Only seven minutes after the start of the game he and Barcelona captain Puyol in a collision in the corner of the eye rupture, blood flow more than. But only after a short treatment, Raul with the injury to wear on the battlefield, but also in the first half is about to end to score a goal. This helped Real Madrid beat Barcelona four to two. When Raul was replaced by Carlos, the Bernabeu expressed their sincerest gratitude to their captain with applause. After this failed season, Real Madrid came to China again. Chinese fans can hardly forget that Real Madrid beat Beijing Guoan 3-2 in a heavy rain, with Raul scoring a goal. While all the superstars were busy walking the runway in China, only Raul started jogging and recovering from the sauna in Beijing a few hours after getting off the plane. He said that this is a long arranged physical fitness program, in order to ensure that he can have a better state in the new season. 05 to 06 season, the first round of the National Derby, Barcelona by virtue of Luo two stone-cold goals, won the victory. His goals also received a warm applause from the fans. The same warm applause was also given to the injured Raul. The injury was the worst of his career in ten years, with a partially ruptured cruciate ligament in his knee and a shattered meniscus, for which Ronaldo had been out for a year and a half, while Raúl returned to the field in just three months, with the goal of being able to participate in the 2006 World Cup. He did, albeit as a substitute, watching yet another performance by Torres, known as the Golden Boy. Thirty-year-old Raul already will not have only belongs to the golden boy's smile, before kissing the ring, he will point his hands behind him, which is no longer in response to his son's request, but to the national team manager does not recruit their own roar; thirty-year-old Raul is still with the constant scrambling to prove their own value, but also to the fifth and sixth La Liga title to launch the impact; thirty-year-old Raul has long since learned to appreciate the loneliness, time and time again! Changing the position on the field, time and again ushered in new teammates, but also time and again to see his teammates leave. Yero, Redondo, Mo reduced Tes ...... only himself is still insisting; thirty-year-old Raul also carries his most beautiful and pure wish, that is: like Maldini in AC Milan, Bel Gomes in Inter Milan, Adams in Arsenal, Kahn in Bayern, as in the white Bernabeu end of their careers. For those pure reasons, we see 31-year-old Raul, still defiantly scoring goals, still reaping the honor of top scorer, still breaking the best record for most goals in the Champions League. Raul's 66th Champions League goal against Zenit St. Petersburg was his last in a Real Madrid shirt, and at 32 years old, he's already put his number of matches played and his record of participation in the Champions League in Real Madrid's history books forever. We also saw the 33-year-old Raul fail to make the starting XI for the first time in a Spanish national derby. While Crow and Messi brought a star-studded national derby, the traditional national derby has faded away. Raúl only played thirty minutes, this is his 31st time to participate in the Spanish national derby, equaling the former six-crown hero Hunto's national derby appearance record, he has eleven times to break Barcelona's door. Florentino thought the Real Madrid youth camp could produce one Raul after another, but until now they have come up empty.
When Raul left, Barcelona's Puyol and Harvey will not have a loss of rivals of sadness, Casillas looked back will not bear Raul wearing the captain's armband of loneliness. on April 24, 2010, Raul in the visit to Zaragoza's league for the last time for the Real Madrid to play and scored. He took away the thoughts of the Bernabeu and left behind the legend of the Bernabeu. Fortunately, Raul did not choose to go to the United States Major League Soccer, he put the next stop in Schalke. Because here there is the opportunity to ride the Champions League, because Germany is not far from Madrid to Gelsenkirchen, two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine kilometers, Raul can go home at any time. And Madrid, at any time, is watching over his children. Expectation of return, from the moment Raul left, has begun.