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With a Master’s degree in sports journalism, I fell in love with tennis as a child and have always loved reading the great stories of this sport. Today, I want to tell them, enjoy my passion to the fullest and be as close as possible to the aces of the circuit.
On Tuesday night, Real Madrid faced Stuttgart in the first day of the Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti’s men won not without difficulty against the German vice-champion and it was an opportunity to meet Philipp Lahm, the club’s management consultant since 2022. The former Bayern Munich legend could have played for Real Madrid at the start of his career but the club had a well-established policy at that time, called Zidanes y Pavones.
From the training center of Bayern Munich, Philipp Lahm experienced his first hours of glory when he was loaned between 2003 and 2005 to Stuttgart, who were then performing well in the league. The German defender was 20 years old at the time and his name was circulating on the transfer window. This was the case for the real Madrid who could have made the dream of the man with 113 caps for the Mannschaft come true. During the first reign of Florentino Perez At the time, the club from the Spanish capital ultimately did not choose this option.
A well-established policy
President of the real Madrid in the early 2000s, Florentino Perez had adopted at the time a policy called Zidanes and Pavones obviously referring to Zinedine Zidane And Francisco Pavontwo great players who started playing for Madrid in 2001. This consisted of making big investments in the transfer window for great players who were already well established or turning to the squad of the Castilla. For Philipp Lahmso the deal never came to fruition.
Lahm dreamed of Real
As reported Relevo, Philipp Lahm dreamed of signing one day at real Madrid. The German defender was closely followed during his loan to Stuttgart since he stood out for his quality of play. He had not hidden from the Madrid leaders his desire to sign. At the time, his price was €8M. The Spanish media continues by revealing that Lahm could also have signed at FC Barcelona after the World Cup in 2010 but the Bayern Munich was too demanding to agree to let him go.
