Flick does not accept questions about the defender, whose sending off last week against Chelsea now takes on different connotations
Ronald Araujo stopped. We don’t know for how long. The powerful Charrua center back with the kind smile and boxer’s physique asked for and received a break. Tonight it will not be from the partidazo, the Barça-Atletico scheduled at the Camp Nou. And then we’ll see. Yesterday, presenting today’s meeting, Hansi Flick invited with German courtesy not to ask questions about Captain Araujo. It stops, and stop. Respect, please.
THE ABSENCE
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Ronald is not well. For a while now. So much so that his early expulsion at Stamford Bridge a week ago today takes on different connotations from the wickedness with which he was labeled live. That double yellow premature baby was the result of an illness that was already present but not yet declared. Ronald wasn’t called up with Alaves, without any major justifications or questions, something was in the air, suspended, unsaid. And now he takes a well-deserved, justified, sacrosanct break.
THE STOP
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We don’t know what happens in detail. And that’s fine, no need for details. They are personal matters and will remain so until, eventually, the gentle giant himself tells them, if he ever wants to. Something disturbs him, worries him, mentally shrinks his beastly physique. It prevents him from being free in his movements and choices, so it’s better to stop.
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