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Gareth Bale has had a strained relationship with Real Madrid fans.
The Welshman has long suffered injury problems during his years in Spain, criticized for his unwillingness to spend time with his teammates and for spending a lot of time on his great hobby: golf.
Several times he has been booed by the demanding local crowd at the Santiago Bernabéu.
One of Bale’s critics has been former Real Madrid striker Predrag Mijatovic. In an interview with Spanish radio in October, Mijatovic said that the three most important things for Bale are the Welsh national team, golf and then Real Madrid.
When Wales qualified for the Football Championship in November, many people raised their eyebrows when they saw Bale celebrate the breakthrough with his teammates.
Bale posed with a flag with the text “” Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order “, which created strong reactions in Spain.
“He laughs at Real Madrid. His fans and his teammates. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t deserve to wear his sweater. And he should never wear it again. Never,” wrote journalist Ruben Martin.
Gareth Bale breaks the silence of the cursed flag
When Bale returned to Madrid, the local crowd kicked him out in Real Madrid’s next league game.
Now, when the Spanish league stops as a result of the crown pandemic, Bale breaks the silence of the flag.
In the Hat-Trick podcast, he says Wales players saw the flag in the stands before the crucial game against Hungary.
– A couple of them said we’d try to lower it if we kept going. I said they could do whatever they wanted, but I wouldn’t download it. But then they found it and took it apart, he says and continues:
– We celebrate as a team and I will not celebrate with my colleagues. It was a joke, it was fun.
