Roncero’s best comeback: “We force you to leave everything until the last breath”
“Nobody has to tell me. I was that magical night against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Nothing less than a 5-1 Germany. A 5-1 that seemed irremontable to me. There I was, with Juanito in command, with Camacho and with the entire troop, with Valdano, with all the players crazy and especially Carlos Alonso Santillana, my chain.
Valdano began with two goals the quarter of an hour. Two passes with the wonderful exterior of Juanito, 2-0, minute 17. What madness. In the Bernabéu there were 100,000 people, all crazy. Interestingly, there were not so many legs. It was only, heart and courage, but football was missing. And the Germans endured no less than until the 75th minute. Until Santiana, volley, just entering the area, stuck the stick, put the third. There was a quarter of an hour, but there was almost no lungs or legs anymore.
But the Bernabéu, I remember, was crazy. Every time I took the ball to Madrid, 100,000 people: ‘Come on, come on, come on. We force you to leave everything until the last breath. And so it was. Minute 89, a ball that takes from Camacho Banda, finishes Míchel, bounces the German goalkeeper in the chest and the ball is divided near the small area, Santiana enters with two two -meter Germans and with all the effort of her life, with a single kidney, putting her leg and 100,000 souls pushing the stands, the ball entered.
The ecstasy, the delirium, the 4-0, Juanito hitting boats when he changed to Mancio to leave Martín Vázquez, all crying in the stands, hugged, crazy. For me, the mother of all the comebacks I have lived. Well, I lived it in the Bernabéu and why isn’t it going to be repeated? ”
