No trace of the Santiago Bernabéu trophy

Actual Madrid wonders once more: And the Santiago Bernabéu trophy? Actual Madrid has been since August 11, 2018 with out celebrating the match that honors the reminiscence of its legendary president, who died on June 2, 1978. The burst of the coronavirus, the extended and costly reworking works of the merengue coliseum, the excursions of america and Asia, and the requirement of the soccer calendar have made ‘disappear’ within the final seven years this conventional trophic Complaints of many meringues followers of the membership by means of social networks.

A discomfort that has been unleashed after the membership shocked by saying final week than these of Xabi Alonso, will play a pleasant on Tuesday, August 12, only one week for the league premiere towards Osasuna. The rival would be the WSG Tirol, a media of the Austrian Bundesliga. The duel might be held on the Tivoli Stadion in Innsbruck, an enclosure that may solely home 17,400 followers. Ultimately it appears that it’ll weigh extra to make a field than to discover a date for the historic Bernabéu trophy to return to the scene.

No version in 2014

In 2014, Florentino Pérez and his direct board have already damaged with a practice that dated since 1979, when the primary version of the Bernabéu trophy was held, instituted to worship and tribute to Don Santiago, a key determine within the centennial story of Actual Madrid. On that event, the excuse to not have fun this prestigious match, after 35 uninterrupted editions, was that of a calendar overloaded by the dispute of the Tremendous Cups of Spain and Europe. The White Membership did have time, then again, to play a pleasant towards the Italian Fiorentina in Warsaw (Poland) in the course of August, simply three days of measuring Atlético de Madrid within the first leg of the Spanish Tremendous Cup and 4 days after beating Sevilla in Cardiff (Wales) within the European Tremendous Cup.

In 2007, the Social gathering towards Sporting in Portugal within the Bernabéu Trophy was suspended on August 29 because of the unhappy demise of Sevilla Antonio Puerta and on the finish it was performed on December 5 earlier than the Partizan de Belgrade (rival of the sixth Europe Stéfano

Because the summer season of 2018, with Milan de Rival (the White 3-1 received with objectives from Benzema, Bale and Borja Mayoral), which served as a tribute to the sixtieth anniversary of the third Europe Madrid followers take pleasure in a sport in its emblematic state earlier than the beginning of the official season. If there isn’t any final minute change, every part signifies that Santiago Bernabéu’s meeting-homage won’t be held this summer season and there might be seven seasons with out him.

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Between August 31 and September 1, 1979, with Luis de Carlos on the head of the membership after the demise of the earlier yr of Santiago Bernabéu, the primary version was performed, which ended within the showcases of Bayern Munich, Verdugo del Actual Madrid in ‘Semis’ (1-2) and champion after imposing himself within the ultimate at Ajax (2-0). Since then, 39 have been held (the whites had been champions 28 instances),