Sergio Ramos Is Real Madrid’s Cocky, Header-Scoring Savior
- by: Nando Vila | March 13, 2017
“Sergio Ramos has a magical forehead imbued with the power to score clutch goals. This head of his brings unending joy to Real Madrid fans, despair to opponents and rivals, and is arguably the most valuable body part in Madrid this side of Cristiano Ronaldo’s priceless right leg.
Sergio Ramos’s head saved Real Madrid’s ass yet again on Sunday with an 80th minute game winning header against Real Betis.
Since scoring THAT goal in the 2014 Champions League final—one that will forever haunt the dreams of cross-town rivals Atlético Madrid—Ramos has scored 23 goals, 19 of which have come when Real were either tied or down by one. When the moment is biggest, when Real are most desperate for a goal, is when Ramos comes to the rescue.
The biggest reason why Ramos is able to do this time and again is the same reason why plenty of people find Ramos to be insufferable: He has an almost insane confidence in his own ability.
Legend has it that when Luis Aragonés first called an 18-year-old Ramos up to the Spanish national team, he told a group of journalists after the very first training session that “the kid had balls bigger than Espartero’s horse” (Espartero was a Spanish General, whose statue in Madrid is famous because the horse has giant nuts).
Sergio Ramos is so confident that he did a panenka in the penalty shootout of a Euro semifinal just weeks after skying a penalty in the the penalty shootout in a Champions League semifinal, inspiring hundreds of memes.
Ramos just knows that if there’s a corner late in the game, and his team needs a goal, he is going to score it. Scoring from a corner is as much about pure belief as anything else. Everyone is in the box. You have to be the one to attack the ball and fight your way to it before anyone else and score.
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