Eleven years later, the Spanish team and fans once again celebrated a title after winning the Nations League last Sunday by beating Croatia in a penalty shootout. Thousands of fans gathered at the WiZink Center in Madrid to celebrate the new sporting success with the players and the coaching staff led by coach Luis de la Fuente.
The red expedition appeared in the vicinity of the venue after eight in the afternoon after a day in which they had also come to visit Felipe VI at the Palacio de La Zarzuela. Once inside, the champions were called one by one to go out onto a stage set up in the venue. The first to do so was the coach, Luis de la Fuente, who shunned the spotlight to give it up to his footballers.
The party was marred by insults and whistles to Gavi and Barça by a sector of those present when the Andalusian midfielder was preparing to speak. When he had only had two sentences, the Barça midfielder stopped for a moment because a sector began to shout “whore Barça, whore Barça, hey, hey!”. The face of the Blaugrana youth squad, who in the past has had his ups and downs with some white footballer in the classics, was a poem. Like Jordi Alba’s, located behind him.
He delivered an interrupted speech: “Good afternoon, everyone. I’m going to be brief, I wanted to thank all the Spaniards and all the fans who have supported us in these two games, which without them would not have been possible and we will be eternally grateful to them. Long live Spain “. The applause of the majority covered the whistles and the contrary songs. Among the insults at the venue (where the third game of the Endesa League final is being played this Tuesday) some were heard such as “son of a bitch”, “little boy” or “dog”.
Another moment of the night was when Joselu, hours after finalizing his transfer to Real Madrid, dedicated a few words to his new club and to many of the white fans present at the party. “I have signed for the best club in the world. Hello Madrid!” He said at his ‘presentation’ in the Madrid capital, drawing applause from the public.
The most emotional moment was when Jordi Alba, in his speech, remembered Sergio Rico, the PSG goalkeeper who had been hospitalized for weeks and who came out of a coma on Monday. The already ex-Barça winger also remembered Luis Enrique, also whistled by the public, and Luis Rubiales, to which part of the public responded with shouts of “corruption in the Federation”.
Fabián Ruiz was the most witty and said “he tried to beat Grealish without sleeping”. The players ended up throwing De la Fuente on the podium.
