The situation
José Luis Pérez Caminero (Madrid, 54 years old): five seasons at Atlético and eight derbies against Real Madrid. Francisco Buyo (Betanzos, A Coruña, 64 years old), 11 seasons at Real Madrid and 25 derbies against Atlético. With these data it is evident that they are two authorized voices to analyze the exciting meeting that is anticipated this Sunday at the Metropolitano (9:00 p.m., Movistar LaLiga). Caminero and Buyo talk in AS about their past as footballers, recall anecdotes , each one more interesting, and give their opinion on how they intuit the star game of matchday 6 will bein First, stopping at proper names such as Benzema, Vinicius, Griezmann, Courtois, João Félix, Simeone, Ancelotti…
Past.
The talk begins with Caminero’s stage as a footballer in the Madrid academy, where he came to train with the first team: “I had a good relationship with the guys from ‘La Quinta del Buitre’, in fact, I get along very well with Míchel and with Chendo, who was the one who took me to the old Ciudad Deportiva, because I didn’t have a car. He used Maceda’s boots, because then the first team players gave the ones they didn’t use to the kit men and they distributed them to those of Castilla who went up to train ” . Caminero recalls when he left the white club: “We had returned from the preseason in Guadarrama with Castilla and they told me that I had to go to Valladolid as part of the transfer from Hierro to Madrid”. There he left, beginning his brilliant stage as a First Division player, with more than 400 games. If Caminero is an illustrious player at Atlético and Valladolid, what can I say about Buyo: more than 540 games in the First Division between Real Madrid and Sevilla. With his Galician snarl, he doesn’t miss the opportunity to joke with Caminero about his white period: “You went over to the dark side…” . And of course the derbies in which they coincided on the pitch come to the fore: three times (two in the League and one in the Cup), and Caminero never beat Buyo (two draws and one defeat with both starting), although the Madrid can boast of having scored two goals against the Galician: it was in the first leg of the Copa del Rey round of 16 (2-2: in the second leg, Madrid won 3-2 and went through to the quarterfinals). Perhaps unknown details are revealed from the past of both as footballers. Buyo confesses that when he started he paid a lot of attention to Esnaola (ex-Betis and Real Sociedad goalkeeper) and ‘Superpaco’ (Francisco Ruiz Brenes, mythical Sevilla and Cádiz goalkeeper);