The new white hope is called James Rodriguez

They say that it is always there, that it is the last thing that is lost and painted green, but in Real Madrid the new hope has not been in recent years, it was close to leaving and dressed in white, dark blue or Even green, it depends on the day. The fans of Santiago Bernabéu have never given up their hope that they are now back after a long Erasmus. The new white hope has a name and surname, it's called James Rodriguez.

The Colombian soccer player is back in the Madrid team and he knows it, Zidane has seen it and the crowd returns to praise him as he did years ago, when he landed in the capital as a breath of fresh air with the potential to be a true hurricane. And it was, the coffee maker signed 17 goals and 18 assists in his first course as a merengue to win over the general public, but above all to the fans who meet between Father Damien and Castellana.

His performance went from more to less and on his return the exact opposite happens. The new James Rodríguez is no longer just the decisive footballer from three quarters in the future, he now works in defense, presses, anticipates the opponent, steals balones … he is a much more complete player than the one who left for Munich, like the young man who leaves to study outside without knowing how to make a fried egg and returns a doctorate in survival cuisine.

The convulsive summer in which even Atlético de Madrid sounded like his new house also served to make Zidane realize that in his ranks he had one of the best left-handed people on the planet in a reinvented and more mature man. James stayed and fought to regain the confidence of his coach, he reappeared before Valladolid demonstrating his quality and against Levante he was one of the best to make one thing clear: "I hope this is my season at Real Madrid. "

The Colombian played the 90 minutes demonstrating that he has a physique to do it, in attack he was decisive with an assist and several valuable interventions, and in defense he worked like no other. His performance should make Zidane doubt about his ownership in the next matches due to numerous absences as he could contribute to the team something that no other footballer has, that ability to unbalance a game from the core.

The trident of attack that presumably Hazard, Benzema and Bale would form would find their best partner in a James Rodriguez who, acting as a midfielder, was the link with the double pivot that the Frenchman has worked so much in the preseason. The coffeemaker returns to alter the 'status quo' of a team that precisely needed that, a hopeful revolution that now comes true in one man.