{"id":295596,"date":"2023-10-28T04:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=295596"},"modified":"2023-10-28T04:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:09:57","slug":"euro-files-jude-bellingham-takes-leaf-out-of-cristiano-ronaldos-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/euro-files-jude-bellingham-takes-leaf-out-of-cristiano-ronaldos-book\/","title":{"rendered":"EURO FILES: Jude Bellingham takes leaf out of Cristiano Ronaldo's book"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was a case of the \u2018calma before the storm\u2019 this week when Jude Bellingham spoke to Spanish television ahead of Saturday’s Clasico.<\/p>\n
\u2018I always remember Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s celebration telling everyone \u201ccalma, calma\u201d,\u2019 said the England midfielder of his memories of watching the fixture at home. Some Spanish words are easier to learn than others.<\/p>\n
At 20, Bellingham will be the youngest player in a Real Madrid shirt on the pitch in Catalonia on Saturday, but in Alejandro Balde (20, but born four months later), Gavi (19) and Lamine Yamal (16), there will be three players his junior lining up for Barcelona.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the Baby Clasico but grown-up Jude can dominate it because, as everyone in Spain has already worked out, he is mature well beyond his years.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Mail Sport this week, former Real Madrid player and assistant coach Aitor Karanka recalled that when he moved to manage Birmingham City in July 2020 he studied the previous season\u2019s games, and realised the club\u2019s standout player was the one they had just sold to Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n
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Jude Bellingham is relishing his first El Clasico on Saturday and is taking a leaf out of Cristiano Ronaldo’s book<\/p>\n
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Bellingham says he remembers Ronaldo’s iconic ‘calma’ celebration after scoring against Barcelona\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The midfielder has enjoyed a fantastic start to the Bernabeu having scored 11 goals in 12 appearances across all competitions\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u2018How can you do that to me?\u2019 he jokingly asked the club\u2019s director general Xuandong Ren.<\/p>\n
Karanka knew he was losing a huge talent and dressing room leader. \u2018This is a kid who gets sold, and it was all agreed, but Birmingham still needed three points to secure safety and he (Bellingham) said that until the club is safe he was going to keep playing.<\/p>\n
\u2018He was 17 years old at that point! Any other player, if Borussia Dortmund had come and put down the money for you, would say, \u201cThanks guys, I\u2019m off\u201d. When you see a young man think like that, you can only imagine what can happen to him when he also has everything as a footballer.\u2019<\/p>\n
Barcelona v Real Madrid<\/span><\/p>\n La Liga KO 3.15pm<\/p>\n Not live on UK television, to be shown on delay on Viaplay Sports 2 at 5.15pm<\/p>\n Brest v Paris Saint-Germain<\/span><\/p>\n Ligue 1. Sunday, 12pm\u00a0<\/p>\n TNT Sports 2<\/p>\n Inter Milan v Roma<\/span><\/p>\n Serie A. Sunday, 5pm<\/p>\n TNT Sports 2<\/p>\n Napoli v AC Milan<\/span><\/p>\n Serie A. Sunday, 7.45pm<\/p>\n TNT Sports 1<\/p>\n Karanka won three Champions League titles at Madrid as a player, but says it is never plain sailing at the most demanding club in the world. After a 6-2 defeat at Valencia he was out with his mother when two people told him: \u2018Que malo eres\u2019 (\u2018you\u2019re terrible\u2019). His mother reacted to the slur by asking Karanka why he hadn\u2019t responded.<\/p>\n \u2018I said, \u201cWhat am I going to say, we let in six!\u201d You have to know how to handle the fact that one day you are the best and the next day, they can insult you.\u2019<\/p>\n It\u2019s been all bouquets so far for Bellingham and if he comes out on top Saturday, they will be waiting for him back in Madrid with more. His cool head has been part of his success so far and for all that a simmering row between the clubs means the traditional pre-game meal is off the menu, out on the pitch there is very little of the animosity that has often marked the fixture.<\/p>\n \u2018It goes in cycles,\u2019 says Karanka. \u2018This is a Clasico with young players. Maybe they have a less of a feeling of what this game is yet.\u2019<\/p>\n Bellingham knows what the game means because he was watching Ronaldo and his \u2018calm down\u2019 goal celebration back in 2012. The Portuguese forward had scored the winner in a 2-1 victory five games from the end of the season which all but assured Madrid would be champions.<\/p>\n Victory here would only open up a four-point gap over Barca with 27 games left. But it would be another marker laid down by the world\u2019s best player in waiting.<\/p>\n Clasico weeks in Spain provide plenty of opportunities to speak to former Barca and Madrid players and Javier Saviola, who turned out for both clubs, was asked who he thought who would win next year\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n The former Argentina striker said of Bellingham: \u2018He can do so many different things. To win the Ballon d\u2019Or you have to be very complete and I think he is.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Victory on Saturday would give Real a four point gap on Barcelona and would take the Galacticos level with Girona at the top of the table<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Real Madrid received good news over his fitness this week too, after Bellingham recovered from a knock\u00a0<\/p>\n Euro Files\u2019 bold claim that Paris Saint-Germain could win the Champions League looked daft after they were swept away by Newcastle three weeks ago, but Wednesday\u2019s 3-0 win over AC Milan leaves them top of Group F at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n Luis Enrique started with the three-man midfield he strangely discarded for the trip to St James\u2019 Park and 17-year-old Warren Zaire-Emery was brilliant in it.<\/p>\n Kylian Mbappe (right) was also on form against one of the teams he supported as a kid \u2014 it turns out he didn\u2019t only wear a Real Madrid shirt when he was out playing with his friends. And even habitual hit-and-miss merchant Ousmane Dembele played well.<\/p>\n Perhaps the key for PSG this season is to not run away with Ligue 1 too early. They go into this weekend\u2019s round of matches third and are not alone in facing a fight to defend their crown, because in none of Europe\u2019s big five leagues do last season\u2019s champions lead the way.<\/p>\n PSG have Brest on Sunday and then Montpellier on Friday before they visit the San Siro on November 7.<\/p>\n \u2018We will all be able to qualify right up to the last round of matches,\u2019 said PSG head coach Luis Enrique.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PSG completed a 3-0 victory against AC Milan in midweek with Kylian Mbappe scoring the sides opener to help them bounce back after tough loss to Newcastle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jose Mourinho is banned from Roma’s visit to Inter Milan after he made ‘crying’ gestures to the opposition dugout during their 1-0 victory against Monza last week<\/p>\n Jose Mourinho is banned from Sunday’s visit to his old club Inter Milan and it\u2019s hard to know if that is a good thing for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n When Stephan El Shaarawy scored a 90th-minute winner against Monza last week Mourinho celebrated in front of the visitors\u2019 bench, shushing his rival coach and pretending to wipe away tears.<\/p>\n Mourinho said of the ban: \u2018It has to be the same for everyone. I\u2019ve seen other coaches make the same gesture I did or even worse.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n So he will be in the stands at the San Siro as his team visit the Serie A leaders.<\/p>\n Mourinho also said Inter, with the squad they have, should win the league by 20 points.<\/p>\n So is he better off out of the dugout? On suggestions he had picked up the red card deliberately, he said: \u2018So many idiots have said idiotic things. I\u2019m Roma coach, of course I want to be with my team.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The European Court of Justice is set to announce on December 21 if UEFA acted lawfully when the organisation threatened sanctions against defecting Super League clubs<\/p>\n It’s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n The European Court of Justice will announce on December 21 if UEFA acted lawfully when they threatened sanctions against the clubs trying to create a breakaway European Super League.<\/p>\n Barcelona and Real Madrid have walked hand-in-hand through this entire power grab but will not be talking about it on Saturday after the clubs\u2019 traditional Clasico pre-match meal was called off.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rows over a Barcelona board member claiming Vinicius Jnr was not a victim of racism but a \u2018clown who deserves a slap\u2019, and Madrid being part of the prosecution seeking to punish Barcelona for paying a referees\u2019 boss \u00a36.3million across a 17-year period, have soured relations.<\/p>\nMbappe helps PSG lay ghost of St James\u2019 Park to rest<\/h2>\n
Mourinho shuts down the idiots<\/h2>\n
IT’S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n
Super League verdict coming in December\u00a0<\/h2>\n