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Madrid always fights until the end, never gives up. He may lose, but he always competes and never gives up. The competitive mentality of its players is historically a winner: from the most abrupt central defender to the most exquisite midfielder, from the indefatigable roadrunner to the most skilful winger and the goalscoring center forward, all of its players assume that losing is inconceivable. It is something that does not exist in his DNA, a DNA that Santiago Bernabéu implanted with an iron hand, which had its best expression in Alfredo di Stéfano and which generation after generation has survived to this day. This course we have witnessed a prodigious succession of rebirths for Real Madrid when, behind on the scoreboard and against a visibly better team, we saw it eliminated. All this with the impulse of a magical air that in certain conditions arises in the Bernabéu, a collective mystique, something supernatural that overwhelms the opponent and paralyzes him. It has happened many times. That is what this book.