Few players will enjoy careers as successful as Gareth Bale, few will be as successful as Bale at Real Madrid, and fewer still have been outstanding at the same level at the same time. Despite two goals in the Champions League Finals, Santiago Benabeu has never warmed to the ball in the same way that some of their heroes have.
Bale became a herd of media in the Spanish capital, who were willing to emphasize that he had failed to integrate his culture, and at the end of his career, punished him by seeing the contract received rather than seeking more game time elsewhere. Speaking in an interview with GQ, Bale explained that he was not ready to give up the image as well.
“Obviously a lot of players go to Madrid to be a Galactico but I went there to play football, so what I have achieved many times in other countries was actually a complete thing.”
“But because people believe what they read, they create a character that I’m not. I was probably guilty of self-defense and in other appropriate ways, probably somehow, by going to Madrid [of being a Galactico]. “
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Bale went on to explain that he felt that his character was removed from the truth of who he was.
“I just don’t think Spanish sources know who I am. Maybe it’s past me that I never gave them the length but I didn’t let anyone, which [wanted]. I was a lot: My football and my life are two different things. I will never change that. “
For the most part, Bale said he was able to separate them from the media storm in Madrid.
“For the most part, I kept myself away from it. I never controlled my social media because you might have my article because I found out that I might have it because I was able to do it so that I could get it. And physically.”
‘I’ve never had a problem with Cristiano’ – Bale
Now retired after a loan spell at Tottenham Hotspur and a short spell as a back-up at Los Angeles FC, Bale said he was unable to communicate regularly with his management partners.
“I’m not associated with that many – a few beach boys – but I’ve always been with everyone. I’ve never had any problems with anyone. Sometimes the media might say that about me too [Cristiano] Ronaldo, we have never had a problem, I have never had an argument, I have never had a fight, I have never had anything. “
Bale’s view of the famous flag photo
Perhaps the flag held more or less in his real madrid career, Bale is strongly opposed to wales’ World Cup qualifications in front of the flag in front of the flag that reads ‘Wales. Golf. Madrid. By this order. ‘
! That slogan is one thing that I felt was a bit of a pain in the ass. For one thing, no one knows how much golf I actually played. If I ask you now how much golf I have played, would you say three or four times a week maybe, something along those lines? “
Bale had a reputation for being as interested in golf as he was in football in Spain, but revealed that he usually played every two to three weeks in his days.
“We just qualified for the Euros so obviously I’m celebrating, all the teams there, then someone puts up the flag [with the slogan] in front of me. What should I do? I’m like, I can’t throw my country’s flag down because that’s the worst thing I can do. In fact, I never touched the flag, which was important to me because I was like, I’m not doing this – I’m just celebrating with my friends. Then that happened. “
“I’m totally blown away [by the Spanish media]. I felt like I did it right because it all came down to poor design. Obviously I prioritize golf more than I do for my country and my club and physically I don’t do a single thing wrong. I look back now and it’s like, it is what it is. There is nothing I can do about it. You have to laugh or cry. So I laughed. “
Bale’s case has served as a cautionary tale about joining Real Madrid, especially those who joined in the United Kingdom, that it is more beneficial to ‘play the game’ the next day in Madrid, rather than ignore it. The arrival of Jude Bellingham saw him try some Spanish, and show a warm attitude, while the first words of Alexander-Arnold’s as a real player of Madrid were in Spain and close to Spain.