Roberto Carlos turns 47 turned white legend. No foreigner has played more games with the Real Madrid shirt than him and very few have received so much affection from the stands of the Bernabéu and the Madrid fans in their time as a player and after hanging up their boots as the left-back. And if Roberto Carlos helped Real Madrid win so many titles, the white entity owes it to one man: Roy Hodgson.
In 1995 Massimo Moratti took over the reins of Inter. And, among other bets, he signed Paul Ince, Javier Zanetti and a young Brazilian winger from Palmeiras, Roberto Carlos. In his first games he dazzled and was uncovered as a scorer. Power, magic and samba in the left-handed band. However, the results did not finish arriving and Hodgson assumed the reins of the neroazurro bench.
"Roy Hodgson destroyed me, made me play in midfield. That way I was not going to have any chance to play for the national team and there was the Copa América in 1997," recalled years later, Roberto Carlos. "It's not that we got along badly, it's that I didn't know much about football." Although Inter's fans loved him, Hodgson was not of the same idea. For him Roberto Carlos was too undisciplined to play in the left-handed lane, he cut his area of action, cut his wings and put in his place Felice Centofanti, a footballer who ended up on Italian television making jokes and sketches about footballers.
