“As a Madrid player, it pains me to say this, but I like the way Barça operates” | Relief

“We didn’t have a party, but the Real Madrid girls are very happy.” Smile Caroline Møller, attending Relevo from a Danish school in Tenerife, reveals his feelings for the club and his happiness after the men’s team won the Champions League on Saturday. Adapted to the country, after three years of working in the team, he is encouraged to give interviews in Spanish. Now his thoughts are focused on the national team, with which will face Spain again on Tuesday (21:30). fight for qualification for Euro 2025. She will again meet some of her teammates who have become friends for her: “Oihane and I swapped shirts the other day and I also talked a lot with Maite and Tere. “We always send each other pictures of what we do, and I talk to them a lot.”

Five years ago, she left her home country to pursue a sports career like her teammates. In the previous match against Spain, eleven Danish starting players were from other leagues: “We have learned much more abroad than we can learn in Denmark. The level is not as high as abroad. I hope that with the national team we can inspire young girls.” want to play more. “Now I feel the leagues outside Denmark are stronger.”

He speaks especially well of the Spanish national team, in which he has been playing since the 21/22 season and which he dares to compare with the Danish team: “Teams have a lot more money to invest in women’s teams. People in Spain are different too, they love football and sports in general.” All this makes him feel extra pressure during the game. “I don’t know if it’s because I play for him. real Madrid

Or so throughout the country, but I feel the pressure to win every game, to die on the field. Not only for my team, but also for the fans. I really like how we have to leave our souls on the field. “I don’t know if it’s because of the mentality we have at Real Madrid or if it’s like that all over Spain.”

In the previous match against Spain he had no minutes, and he learned to cope with this situation on his own. trainer which leads you from Denmark. He helped her this season, in which she added more and more minutes for Real Madrid until she became the team’s second top scorer. “I’m working with him on the psychological issue. We always talk about these things – the lack of minutes – because we can’t control them. Of course I want to play 90 minutes in every game, but that’s not my decision.”, points forward. “I just need to have peace of mind. I know that every day I train well and work to become better. I just need to think about what I can change. Now I am very calm,” she adds.

He faces another challenge on Tuesday against the best team in the world at the moment. Even though they lost 0-2 just two days ago, he knows how they can hurt Spain: “We played a good game, we defended very well. We need to be a little calmer on the ball.” When they play the way they want they are much better than the rest, they find it a little difficult when they have to defend. “We have to stay calm on the ball so they have to defend more.”

Living with the Spanish players at Real Madrid, she was able to experience up close how they had changed since the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. “My teammates feel a lot more pressure from outside, but they took it well. They have grown a lot since the World Cup. In general, the Spaniards are gradually winning more and more, and they are a very strong team, like almost the entire league, which is also growing a little every year,” says Caroline Möller.

A season with ups and downs: “We want to take it to the next level”

This season for Real Madrid has been full of ups and downs. They said goodbye to the Champions League at the group stage, they failed to win a single title, but They achieved their goal of taking second place in the classification and securing their place in Europe. As the games progressed, Möller took on more and more of a role, although he had to watch some games from the bench despite being warm-up: “I think I’m in a very calm place mentally right now. I think this season was my best season at the club. Physically I feel very good too.” “I’m much calmer,” she repeats and admits that “Alberto (Toril) and I talked a lot about these things and what he wants from me. I really enjoy acting now.”

Focusing on the team, Caroline Möller still recalls the Copa del Reina final defeat to Atlético Madrid as if it was a turning point for Real Madrid. “It was a very difficult moment for us. We have done a good job this season and won almost every game. We had a lot of injuries in the Champions League then, but of course we want to move on to the next one.” Level The most important thing is that this year “Next time we will play in the Champions League again.”

A few days ago, Athena del Castillo admitted in an interview with Marca that Barça is “a mirror in which we all have to look at ourselves,” with which the Danish striker agrees. “As a Real Madrid player, it is very painful for me to say such things, but I really like the way Barca operate. They do everything very well and I think they are on another level.” He admits with a half smile. “Of course we want to compete with them, but we are in a place now where we want to compete with other teams. Little by little we are gaining our place and reaching the level of Barça. We also have to be realistic with our level and see who we want to win against,” says Möller.

Next season they will try again and will fight for the first victory over the culé team: “As a Real Madrid player, we always want to beat Barca. They also had more years to reach this level. Little by little we are gaining our place. and hopefully next year we can beat them.

His romance with Cristiano Ronaldo and love for Real Madrid

“I have always loved Real Madrid. I really like Cristiano Ronaldo as a player. When he was here in Madrid, I supported the team a lot. When I arrived it was a special moment for me because I have always been a team player. big fan of the club”

– says the player with particular enthusiasm. She now shares the sentiment with players like Carla Camacho, with whom she usually travels to the Santiago Bernabeu to cheer on the men’s team, as well as the rest of her teammates: “We have a special team this year and a very good group . We are all like very good friends: “They are my colleagues, but they are also my friends.”

He also maintains a special relationship with his compatriots Signe Bruun and Sophie Svava, with whom he shares both the same team and the national team. He laughs as he recalls Bruun’s arrival at Real Madrid last summer: “I played with her for seven years, we also played together in Denmark, she is a very good friend.” She admits that she now feels “a little at home”, being able to speak to them in her own language, although the most important thing for her is the unity of the whole group: “We have a very good group now. , and also with Spanish girls.”