two videos for Tuesday
In the first, we get a glimpse inside Real Madrid’s bus!
The video talks about how the bus is a refuge from the locura (craziness) that surrounds Madrid wherever they go, and shows us what happened after the Hércules game as an example.
El Pirata read a book, Matadero cinco (Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut), while Cristiano stretched out his legs, drank a soft drink and fiddled around with his Blackberry.
At 10:20h, the players had dinner on the bus while traveling to the airport (a member of the expedition is seen putting bread and sandwiches on players’ tables, and there is also the option of soup). Álvaro Arbeloa had an apple, while Raúl Albiol ate a banana. The voiceover says it appears that Sergio Canales decided to have the “children’s menu” of sandwich and chocolate. Meanwhile, Peter Lion and Xabi Alonso chose the pasta option.
Watch the video here.
The second video, from “El Día Después,” reveals what Mou was scribbling in his notebook during the Hércules game, and also what he had crumpled up and thrown away when things worked out, so that no one had to be on his “dead list.” The EDD team rescued the notebook from the field next to the bench and made it their job to translate it for all of us.
There were technical instructions, observations, a line-up, and a curious sum.
Mou didn’t end up using the line-up he had so carefully drawn out. In that one, he had Pedro León on the right wing, with Khedira going back to defend as a central defender with Carvalho, and Marcelo and Sergio Ramos as the fullbacks. Özil fell back in the midfield to help out Xabi and Di María. In the end, it was Benzema who came in, and once the comeback started, Mou went to plan B instead.
With regards to the sum, in one of the pages, TSO had added 38, 13 and 6 together to get 57, which the EDD team took to mean the number of games for Madrid this season: 38 Liga games, 13 Champions games (up to the final) and 6 Copa del Rey games (until the quarterfinals). So now I want to know, why doesn’t Mou think we can make it to the final of the Copa del Rey???
The notes seemed to be in a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese.
P.S. What do you think about Juanma Castaño with a beard?
Watch the video here.
Granero reading Slaughterhouse-Five, huh–he seems like a really intelligent guy
I’m happy Mourinho’s expecting us to get to the CL final! I’m sure he’ll try his best for the Copa del Rey, he’s said he’s taking it seriously. And, knowing Mourinho, he will want to win every single competition. Let’s not expect to win every single title, though of course it’s a goal.
Am I the only one who feels that reading discarded notes is really an invasion of privacy? It just doesn’t seem right. I’m not trying to take the moral high ground here; IMHO I just think that this is pushing the envelope a bit too much.
That being said, why the heck didn’t Mou himself or one of the assistant coaches pick up the discarded notes? I’m sure that they know how obsessed people are about anything to do with Mou and his black book.
I think the video on the bus also counts as an invasion of privacy. (To be fair, I didn’t watch it, since the photos alone creeped me out.)
Same here! I wonder why they left the notebook on the ground.
Look the bus is just this age we live in but the notes part is pathetic.
Well, it’s not like those notes are revealing any big secrets or anything , so I don’t really find it as a big deal.
I agree, and I agree that spying on the players in the bus is an invasion of privacy as well… the journalists stalk the team so closely O.O
Eyah, can I like El Pirata any more??!! Lol I loooveee Kurt Vonnegut, and him reading Slaughterhouse Five makes him seem that much more intelligent and awesome!
Lol I love you, Esteban Granero, about fifty times more now.
hahhah canales is just wolfing down that sandwich
Knowing Mou, he left the notes there on purpose, it is all a big plan to deceive the press;-) I am sure it’s either this or he just sees those notes as not meaning too much. I am sure if they were super secret he would not allow himself to leave them there, he keeps the secret, he even covers his mouth ofthen during the games while speaking so the cameras do not catch it and do the reading from the lips…
Anyway, as to the video from the bus – I have to see it now, I cannot wait and I am already hoping that it is not the last one of the vids from the bus that we’ll get to see this year. Those are the moments I like the most, the insider things!
thanks Una!
Okay, I am correcting myself – I thought this video is like, from the inside of the bus! I agree that this one is a spying one. Do not get me wrong, thanks for posting it, but I am sure we would all agree that if they’d give the camera to the players inside the bus, the vid could be hilarious!
DEFINITELY one of Mou’s ploys… lol! Love that man.
Living in America, we don’t get to see just how much these players are treated like rock stars over there. WOWow. From trashmen picking up and translating scraps of scribbled Mou-isms and dudes filming the guys having lunch on the bus ride, it’s just like any trashy National Inquirer article. I feel like a ‘Peeping Tom’ for having watched the video. I guess, by now, the guys are used to having their privacy invaded. What a life to lead – trading ones privacy (and possibly dignity, too) for the game they love.