Sergio Ramos set for one more epic display of leadership for Real Madrid | Sid Lowe

The defender has numerous tattoos, wears outrageous outfits and has known only success as Real’s Champions League captain

Sergio Ramos was born with golden balls. That’s what Sergio Ramos says, anyway – and, he adds, they’re right where they’re supposed to be. It’s no Ossie’s Dream and it’s not the Anfield Rap either, but this week Real Madrid’s captain released a cup final song of his own: a European Cup final song, offered up with the words “my house, some friends, a lot of magic and this is the result: my life in a song and lots of verses still to write”. With the usual rapper’s brag and bravado, SR4 tells his journey from the streets – well, the square in Camas, Seville – to the World Cup and close to another Champions League title. Already “a legend,” as the track has it, it would be his fourth.

Nothing was handed over free, runs one line of the rap; “his ‘testiculine’ is not for sale, it comes out as a Panenka” – that moment when, in the semi-final of the 2012 European Championship, he dinked in a penalty. That was one of a handful of moments that define a player with a gift for the epic and the grand gesture, for goals too, late ones, important ones, who is almost a cartoon character at times. It was also two months since the European Cup semi-final when, during the shootout, he sent the ball sailing over the bar and some, including Manuel Neuer, into fits of laughter. That night Ramos vowed that he would show them. So he did.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/26/sergio-ramos-leadership-real-madrid-champions-league-final