Article
22 December 2008
Cristina Monge / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell
Every player dreams about being on the pitch of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. After his presentation, Lassana Diarrà put on his new team's kit and fulfilled this dream.
Diarrà today did a journey he will do countless times from now on; that between the dressing rooms and the pitch. He walked past the great statues of Sotero Aranguren and Machimbarrena -legend has it that touching the football of each statue brings good luck- and entered the dressing room corridor. Step by step he came closer to the pitch, where several photographers and journalists waited to take the first pictures of Diarrà as a Real Madrid player.