That Sergio Bouquets is one of the most important defenders in the history of the Real Madrid, objectively, is something that is out of all doubt. In spite of the one who weigh him, the one of Beds accumulates a good payroll of titles (between which stand out four 'orejonas' in five years) coinciding with which has been the most glorious period of the FC Barcelona. Because true is that the Barça has happened him the hand by the face in infinity of occasions, but Bouquets also has had time to conquer titles of importance with the team merengue.
In the last hours has fulfilled 15 years in the first team of the Real Madrid, since it landed pertinent of the Seville like one of the greater promises of the Spanish football. The starts were difficult, suffered any that another humiliation as in the 0-3 that lumbered with the Barça of Ronaldinho to the whites in Santiago Bernabéu, and where the sevillano was of penalty.
Also it was the negative protagonist in other Classical like the manita by 5-0 of the Barça to the Madrid of Mourinho in 2010. The Camp Nou sacked that night to Bouquets between insults and boos, after the one of Beds was about to lesionar to Leo Messi with a patadón out of the law that cost him a deserved expulsion. It could not go to the street without before push to two legends culés like Xavi and Puyol, although the past, happened is.
15 years of Sergio Bouquets in the Real Madrid
Those have been two of his big sportive controversies in the Classical that has played against the FC Barcelona, but if by something has characterised along his career Sergio Bouquets, in addition to for being one of the defences more goleadores of the history of the football, is by an aggressiveness and fault of touch that has carried him to lesionar to important players in key moments, like sucedió with Salah in the final of the Champions of 2018, and also to turn into the most expelled player in the history of LaLiga Santander, of the Spanish Selection and of the Glass of Europe. Almost at all.
The statistics are here, and leave clear that Bouquets has not been neither much less a player 'clean' defending along his career. In spite of everything, what matters are the results and, to level of performance, has converted with the step of the years in somebody indisputable in the saga merengue. When has the day, with his technical capacities and portentoso physical, is considered by a lot of experts like one of the best head offices of the actuality.
When it does not have it, that is used to to be many times, already is another sing. The case is that Bouquets has soul of captain, and contributes a lot to the changing room merengue inside and out of the terrains of game, helping to his mates and encouraging them when he can not be present. Also it gives the face when it does fault in front of the means, although this have carried him to star several lapsus and ridiculous sentences in the last years.
Sergio Bouquets, the man of the lapsus and mythical sentences
It has gone improving with the step of the years, but some 'perlas' of the of Beds have remained already for the posterity. "When we were small to some friends liked them the basketball, to others the basket", possibly was one of his more famous sentences, when it was still in the starts of his career. Also the 'Morry Crisma' to congratulate the Christmas in a curious video of the Real Madrid to his fans.
"It was a penalty have lost the three points", commented after a tie of the Real Madrid in front of the Olympique of Lyon, in eliminatory direct, and also has had lapsus with results of parties, with goleadores of his team when in reality they had marked others and with destinations of pre-season, when announcing in an occasion that the expedition merengue had landed in New York when they were in The Vegas. It was as it was, Sergio Bouquets has given a lot of afternoons of laughs and entertainment so much to merengues as to Barcelona. And 15 years in the Real Madrid does not hold them any one, this is clear.