"(...) But not only that, but also a matter of style: the men of the teams change every few years, as they change actors when they grow old. Yet seems that each club had an invisible hand of a director to do always recognizable to each other than training, such films are unmistakable Lubitsch or Ford or Hitchcock. And as they used different interpreters but they were similar (not John Wayne, for example, Billy Wilder) will seem born players for a team or they will never have room for another. (...) As for Real Madrid, reminiscent of Hitchcock, whose films are the heart in her mouth but usually end well: to Madrid, in Europe, often liked to have three goals against, before repositioning; and the League was very attracted to this rumor caused concern that once Athletic Bilbao when it was ahead on the scoreboard. And do not forget that, also like Hitchcock, had always preferred blondes heroines: Di Stefano, Kopa, Netzer, Velázquez, Pardeza, Prosinecki and especially Butragueño still the closest thing I have ever seen on a football field Grace Kelly threatened, but with scissors. "
javier Marias, "the style and the names," 1992.
