Trent Alexander-Arnold was forced, after moving to Real Madrid from his icon 66 no. 66 to change.
Alexander-Arnold was officially presented as Madrid’s latest Galactico with the shirt number 12 in a presentation on Thursday.
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The 26-year-old has now left Liverpool in the club for a new chapter with the Spanish Giants after two decades.
Madrid exhausted around 10 million pounds to get him something before the end of his contract, June 30th.
The English star amazed supporters and apparently even Los Blancos President Florentino Perez by holding his opening speech in almost perfect Spanish.
Then his Madrid shirt was presented to him, which Alexander-Arnold had only “trent” on his back.
However, this was not the only thing that could have surprised the fans, since the right -back now also runs the shirt No. 12.
Why did Trent No. 66 give up?
The right-back had to change from No. 66 shirt, which he wore for almost all of his professional club career.
After Trent gave his senior debut as No. 2 from Liverpool in a temporary season against Swindon Town, he took over the possession of number 66 in his next appearance and kept it for the rest of his time at Anfield.
It has become a legendary Liverpool strip over the years, with Alexander-Arnold winning the digits with two titles of the Premier League and a Champions League.
However, Laliga rules state that all players have to carry a number between 1 and 25 that Trents 66 excluded from the parameters.
This corresponds to the maximum size of the players who are registered during a domestic campaign.
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It is a rule in which Barcelona cannot retire the shirt No. 10 for Lionel Messi and the No. 7 was not allowed to withdraw for Cristiano Ronaldo.
The strictness of the numbers that have to be used for the 25 registered squad players will see that Alexander-Arnold has no choice.
In addition, Real Madrid seems to have a club -specific state of President Florentino Perez.
And that could have been Jude Bellingham to switch from his No. 22 to No. 5 in Los Blancos.
The real legend Zinedine Zidane revealed that Perez does not like players who wear high numbers and that he prefers 1-11 on the field.
Zidane said: “I selected the shirt number five because he [Perez] I didn’t want me to have 25, 30, 35. He said, “This is not a football, this is American football”, so I have five in the end. ”
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Even if the LALIGA rules allow the use of No. 66 in the league, Alexander-Arnold would probably have been asked to change anyway.
Trent has carried several different numbers on the back of his kit for England, including 2, 7, 8 and 10.
All of this was not available in Madrid and led No. 12 as the highest free number he could choose.
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