spanish → English transcript

I'm not anti-Real Madrid; it's just that Real Madrid's values don't interest me — they have nothing to do with my personality.

From the presidency to the club itself, it has a more elitist, more aristocratic feel.

I started out playing on the sand with a Mikasa ball, wrecking my legs, playing in winter at 9:00 a.m., in the cold, with cold water and so on.

I think those values are what they represent, although they're already being lost even in big clubs like Atlético de Madrid.

Those values are more associated with other kinds of clubs.

And Real Madrid itself, as a club or institution, doesn't really interest me — it's a matter of my personality, my tendency to go against everything.

I also don't identify with the power it has over real estate matters and politics.

Florentino doesn't just run sport; he runs the institutions and operates at the political level.

We're in a place right now that was reclassified — a public site that should have been ceded for sports grounds; it was reclassified and towers were built.

He signed—I don't know how many—Galácticos.

In the end, that's in collusion with politics.

That really distances me from the club, even from the fans.

I think I've been to the Bernabéu once.

The fanbase is different, very different from that of Rayo Vallecano or Atlético de Madrid, and from what you might find in Argentina—what Boca can be like.

I think it's tied to the power of football, to political power, to corporate power, and to banking power.

Even the photo of Real Madrid's own box no longer has much to do with me or with how I see life.