A new season at the highest for the Merengues. Champions since last week, after FC Barcelona’s defeat in Girona, Carlo Ancelotti’s men won comfortably last night in Granada (4-0), three days after qualifying for the League final champions against Bayern Munich.
Returning to Madrid during the night, the Madridistas celebrated their new title of champion of Spain, the 36th in their history. First, in Valdebebas, their training center, then in the streets of Madrid, where the white jerseys multiply in front of the players, placed on the balcony of the town hall.
Between the fans who sing in praise of Vinicius, those who ask Luka Modric to stay or even Jude Bellingham who expresses himself in the language of Don Quixote, the communion is total. Even Carlo Ancelotti started singing.
Croatian midfielder Luka Modric also took the microphone to promise his fans that their heroes would return here “after June 1”, the date of the Champions League final against Dortmund at Wembley, to celebrate a fifteenth C1.
As tradition dictates, Nacho then tied a scarf and a flag in Madrid colors around the statue of the Greek goddess Cybele, and kissed her on the cheek under a shower of confetti.
A little earlier in the day, the future of the Blues striker, Kylian Mbappé, was invited to the protocol ceremony at the town hall of Madrid, where the mayor José Luis Martinez-Almeria provoked a few laughs in a largely taken up by the Spanish media.
“I want to thank President Florentino Perez for all the sporting work done, the new Santiago Bernabéu… and then I heard the children here say to him ‘Mbappé, Mbappé, Mbappé’, and the children always tell the truth” , he declared with a smile.
