You’re a Real Madrid fan. You’re sitting in your room, watching the 2014 Champions League final. Your team is playing their first European final in 12 years, and it would be the 10th Champions League title for the club if they win it. But, the team is trailing in stoppage time by one goal. It’s a corner in your team’s favour. You’re biting your nails because you’re too damn nervous to watch the corner kick, and too damn scared to see them lose after witnessing the way they have played all season. You don’t want to see the team end the season by losing the title they’ve been craving for, for over a decade. You’re praying to the Almighty that your team scores the equalizer. Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric hear your prayers. On the 92nd minute Luka Modric takes that corner kick, and Sergio Ramos, one of the leaders of the squad, rises the highest and scores.

You cry your eyes out. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not anymore. You don’t know what to do. That’s what Real Madrid does to you each time they score, and even more so when it’s a match as important as this. That’s how love makes you react the way you reacted after Ramos scored. That’s the power of Madridismo.

Except for a section of ‘Madridistas’ who stop supporting the club for one reason or the other, or the ones that don’t support the club during the bad times, every Madridista loves this club unconditionally. They know how much this club means to them, how it has helped them in their life, how it was always there for them. Yes, I’m one of them. Being a part of this club is a really special feeling. It’s the best feeling in the world. I seriously can’t be more direct with this. This feeling of nervousness, yet excitement each time you hear the anthem of Real Madrid is something you can’t feel while you’re watching a game of football that does not involve Real Madrid or a different sport altogether. True, you will feel things. I won’t deny that, but you won’t feel them that way. You won’t feel them The Real Madrid Way.

Also, This club teaches you values. Values of loyalty to the badge and doing anything for it. Values of determination to succeed every time you step onto that pitch. Values of not giving up until it actually is over. These values you can’t learn unless Madridismo is in your blood. True, you will learn things. I won’t deny that, but you won’t learn them that way. You won’t learn them The Real Madrid Way.

For myself and many people that I know, this club has literally been the only thing that kept all of us together through the toughest things witnessed in our lives, as of now. Each time anyone was having a bad day, that person watched his team play and win convincingly. Boom. He’s back to being happy, or close to it anyway, because of the fact that the love of his life succeeded in doing something that it had planned on doing.

To be honest, I don’t think that I can express my love for Real Madrid through words. This is the best I can do because I really don’t think that there are enough words in the dictionary that can define my feelings towards this incredible club.

This article, by no means, would be the greatest I’ve ever written, but it always will hold a special place in my heart, because of the fact that it is about the love of my life and, it is what I have been feeling since the moment I started watching this team do what it does.

This is not the opinion of a writer, but the feelings of a fan who loves this club with all his heart.

Hala Madrid y Nada Mas.

Happiest birthday, Emil. 🙂

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