The midfielder highlighted a former figure of the white team who won many titles, including six European Cups,
the croatian Luka Modric went after training to the burning chapel of Paco Gento, figure he extolled as “Real Madrid legend”, grateful for the admiration for his football that always showed him the Cantabrian Galena.
“It is a great loss for football and Real Madrid, it leaves a great void in the club and in all the fans. He has been a legend of Real Madrid who has won many titles, his six European Cups say it all, the only player who has achieved it. It’s a sad day, we will always remember it”, he stated on Real Madrid TV.
Modric is on track to match Gento at the age he played for Real Madrid. “I hope I can turn 38 playing for Real Madrid, would be a dream. Every time I met him he was an impressive person, very kind. That one of the greatest people in the club said those things about me is a source of pride. He was someone humble, very good,” he confessed.
“I was not lucky enough to see him play but when I arrived at Real Madrid there was talk of Gento and Di Stéfano, of that generation of players that was the club’s greatest”. (D)
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