January 16, 2009 at 6 p.m.

Real Madrid had concluded their pre-match preparations for tomorrow's league game an hour earlier.

However, the players have not left the training base and they have been informed that the club will hold a press conference.

The news came suddenly and unsurprisingly.

The leadership team led by Calderón must give an account to the outside world, rather than a perfunctory response like a personal interview, which will only fuel the anger of Real Madrid members.

Today's newspaper has revealed in advance that Calderón faces only two choices.

First, he voluntarily resigned to protect his board of directors, that is, the interests of the group headed by him.

Second, wait for the members to vote to overthrow him! Then at that time, his leadership team will also be gone, and there will be no eggs under the nest?

In the past, Calderón always played the commonplace political trick of "abandoning the car to protect the commander", and now it is his turn to face whether to sacrifice himself in the interests of the group.

The players watched the press conference live in the conference room, and Madrid's television station had already arrived in Real Madrid's press room.

The press hall was packed, no reporters were seated, and everyone stood up, eager to crowd up on stage.

When Calderón appeared, the scene was lit up like a star, and reporters stretched the microphone forward, hoping to clearly receive every word Calderon would say next.

In this situation, it is impossible to imagine that the president of Real Madrid, who was ranked 51st in the world by an authoritative sports magazine at the end of last year, is being sought after by the outside world.

In less than two weeks, he has turned into a street rat, and now. People are just watching what he decides.

It's self-defeating and giving a good time. Or wait for a revolution by the members of the Bernabeu to guillotine!

Calderón's face was calm at first. But when he began to speak into the microphone, his eyes moistened, and he couldn't tell whether he was really aggrieved and sad by being bombarded by public opinion or a well-planned bitter meat drama.

"Out of distrust of the board that I lead, I have decided to resign as president of Real Madrid. I admit to making mistakes, but I don't do anything wrong, I am worthy of my conscience, and my hands are clean. I'm not a coward, and I hope to resign in exchange for appeasement to the Real Madrid public. ”

Calderón had tears in his eyes at the press conference. It was clear from the voice in which he spoke that he was angry.

"People who care about Real Madrid are shocked every day by stories made up from the media, but these reports have completely lost their moral code and I condemn what they do. My departure may be a success and a victory for these people. I am proud of the fact that I have worked for the best teams in the world and I am grateful to the directors of the club for their support during my tenure. ”

Calderón then thanked his wife and children.

"Thank you to my wife, Teresa, for her ability to endure pain and sacrifice when I was not around. I also want to apologize to my children because I was attacked and vilified, and even my profile and photos could not escape the clutches of my attackers. Thank you. May God bless you all. ”

The scene was quiet all the time, and Calderón's resignation speech did not move people to win sympathy. Now people are just calmly accepting this fact, but even if this is foreseen, the news is bound to cause a stir in European football.

After announcing his resignation and giving his speech, Calderón went on to explain how Real Madrid would operate next.

Pending the election of a new chairman, vice-president Vicente Boruda will take over the club's affairs as acting president.

Thus, after 940 days in the presidency, Calderón's era of Real Madrid is officially over!

Calderón did not leave amid applause, nor did he flee amid invective, and when he ceased to be the president of Real Madrid, he was left with the identity of a lawyer, the back of a 57-year-old man, and no one cared about him.

The Madrid media quickly spread the news, and Real Madrid changed!

And Boruda, who took over the chairmanship, began to come to the stage, and the former vice president of the club had no real power, more like a mascot.

So for the outside world, Boruda has naturally become the focus of attention from the outside world.

In his inaugural speech, Boruda thanked Calderón for his contribution during the two and a half years he had served the club, and repeatedly stressed that Real Madrid's success last season was inseparable from Calderón's hard work.

But his words did not make the members buy it, but the rules are the rules, and according to the governing statutes of the Real Madrid club, when Calderón resigns, the members cannot "impeach" Boruda at this time, which seems unreasonable.

However, Boruda also joined the club's board of directors after Calderón took over the Bernabeu, and became the vice president, he is obviously a member of Calderón's political group, and Calderon's decision to resign must also have a foreshadowing to wipe his ass and avoid settling accounts in the future.

In addition to reassuring the morale of the club, Boruda's first task after taking office is to resolve the issue of when the presidential election will be held as soon as possible.

Since Calderón has stepped down as president, there are two voices even within the Real Madrid board, one is that Real Madrid should hold an early presidential election at the end of the season, so that Real Madrid can make full use of the summer transfer period to get back on the development track as soon as possible, and the other is that Boruda is acting as Calderón's presidency and should hold a general election after the expiration of the term, that is, the election of the president of Real Madrid in the summer of 2010.

As Spain's shipping tycoon, Boruda suddenly became the president of Real Madrid, and he naturally wanted to sit in that position for a little longer.

Therefore, after he took office, his main energy will be on the maneuvering and co-opting of internal "parties."

He certainly wants to run the general election in 2010 so that he has plenty of time to manage his contacts and achieve re-election, which has led him to completely shift his focus away from the club's competitive affairs.

The good news for Real Madrid is that Boruda will not dare to touch Bosque, and will also reduce his interference in athletic affairs, after all, no matter what decision he makes during this period, it will be a reason for the opposition to attack him.

On this day, the Calderón era of Real Madrid is over! (To be continued.) )