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Rossi, Clodoaldo, Rijkaard, Schuster, Redondo, Guardiola, Keane, Effenberg, Pirlo, Kroos, Alonso or Busquets showed us that a defensive midfielder is not just a specialty among the eleven that make up the team. To this profession of football's demiurge responds Marcos Llorente (Madrid, 1995), in whose skills Real Madrid has put hopes of getting a "pillar" from La Cantera. This was claimed by Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane ever since he made a preseason squad in 2014. This summer he preferred moving to top level football. Real Madrid loaned him to Alaves and now he is their stand out player. He will watch his two team face each other this afternoon from the stands of Mendizorroza, because a clause in his loan deal prevents him from facing Real Madrid.

Q. You are grandnephew of Francisco Gento, grandson of Ramon Grosso, son of Paco Llorente, Julio's nephew ... It must be hard to be the last link in a dynasty of Madrid players, which puts high expectations of your success ... Do they criticize you?

A. When criticize me, they know what they talk about. You cannot end up wining [that argument]! They make sure that I stay on the right path. My parents, my uncle, my grandfather ... But it has never weighed me down. After each game I talk to my uncle and we analyze the game, reviewed video and point out the mistakes.

Q. What did draw your attention to Xabi Alonso?

A. We did a pre-season together with Ancelotti and I noticed his positioning. Without being too fast he steals many balls and he goes to ground very well. To go down and to retrieve the ball is dangerous from 2 points, because you can foul the player and because if the player goes past you, you don't have time to get up and catch him. You must go down only when you have no other choice, but if Xabi goes, he always wins the ball.

Q. Why did you start as winger?

A. Because when I was small, I was like the rest of kids: all I wanted was to be up front and score goals. I played in Las Rozas and Míchel called my father and offered me a place in Madrid. I was one of the smallest and skinniest of the team. It was like that all my childhood. I was stuck near the line as winger until the Juvenil, when hit a growth spurt. Whenever I could, I went to the middle, because what I liked was to be playing all the time. I could not stand having the ball only every ten minutes.

P. You were a small, but very combative winger.

A. It is normal that when you're small, they try to intimidate you. I wasn't. I've always been quarrelsome. I did not care if the opponents were bigger. I was going to clash with them.

Q. Do you need the same courage, when you try to dribble compared to when you go into a challenge for a ball?

A. No, it is not the same. I was like that since I was small: I didn't know how show restraint. I have worked on it with my Uncle Julio. When you play as defensive midfielder, you cannot anticipate and fail, because if you do not get the ball, you will leave the opposition attackers against your defenders: it's clear goal scoring chance.

Q. Your duel with Vitolo in Seville was very striking: your long run and you were shoulder to shoulder in penalty area.

R. Vitolo tricked me. There, I think, was the key that I got out before him to steal the ball. In the penalty area you must be more cautious. Outside of it, I try to do everything. You also have to find the middle ground, because if you always go and challenge everything in the midfield, eventually you run out of energy. You have to catch breath, when the play is slower and isn't that dangerous.

Q. Sometimes you are too cautious.

A. It is not the same to lose the ball in the Castilla as it is here.

P. The defensive midfielder is like the Goalkeeper: failures multiply. Do you feel the pressure in the top division football?

A. No. If you want to thrive in La Liga, you can't be afraid of making a mistake. Another thing is that you should try not to make mistakes. I try to do the same thing as I did in the Castilla. To play and enjoy football without thinking about what the people, who are not playing the game, can or cannot see.

Q. In the Valencia-Alaves match, you beat the record of major Europeans league with 17 recoveries. What do you attribute this to?

A. I do not think the statistics. When you are playing, you cannot say, 'Now, I will recover more balls to break the records!'. You do, what the game asks of you. The rule is to go pressing, when the opponent, who is receiving, has back to the goal or does not have the ball under control. To steal balls, more than knowing concepts, you needed intuition, to guess. But you also need strong legs to turn around, to get the body in front. It's complicated, because you depend on the qualities of the opposing player and his teammates, who are unmarked.

P. You went from being the dominant player in Castilla in Segunda B to being another player in Alaves. Now you are playing surrounded by opponents, but last year your opponents were far away, they stayed behind. How did you adjust to this change?