Hala Madrid

Oh, if I catch you, OMG if I catch you!

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Kings of Europe | May 28, 2016 - 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆

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A por la undécima (insp.)

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History: How Real Madrid won their 10 European Cups LA PRIMERA (First European Cup) Final: Real Madrid 4-3 Stade de Reims (13/06/1956) Real Madrid XI: Alonso, Atienza, Marquitos, Lesmes, Muñoz, Zárraga, Joseíto, Marsal, Di Stefano, Rial y Gento. Scorers: Di Stéfano 14′, Rial 30′, 79′, Marquitos 67′ Stadium: Parc des Princes, Paris (attendance 38,239) - Story | video (2) LA SEGUNDA Final: Real Madrid 2-0 Fiorentina (30/05/1957) Real Madrid XI: Alonso, Torres, Marquitos, Lesmes, Muñoz, Zárraga, Kopa, Mateos, Di Stefano, Rial y Gento. Scorers: Di Stéfano 69′ (P), Gento 75′ Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid (attendance 124,000) - Story | video (2) LA TERCERA Final: Real Madrid 3-2 Milan (28/05/1958) Real Madrid XI: Alonso, Atienza Il, Santamaría, Lesmes, Santisteban, Zárraga, Kopa, Joseíto, Di Stéfano, Rial y Gento. Scorers: Di Stéfano 74′, Rial 79′, Gento 107’ Stadium: King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels (attendance 67,000) - Story | video LA CUARTA Final: Real Madrid 2-0 Stade de Reims (03/06/1959) Real Madrid XI: Domínguez, Marquitos, Santamaría, Zárraga, Ruiz, Santisteban, Kopa, Mateos, Di Stéfano, Rial y Gento. Scorers: Mateos 1′, Di Stéfano 47′ Stadium: VfB Arena, Stuttgart (attendance 72,000) - story | video LA QUINTA (fifth consecutive title) Final: Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (18/05/1960) Real Madrid XI: Domínguez, Marquitos, Santamaría, Pachín, Vidal, Zárraga, Canario, Del Sol, Di Stéfano, Puskas y Gento. Scorers: Di Stéfano 27, 30, 73, Puskás 45+1, 56 (P) , 60, 71 Stadium: Hampden Park - Glasgow (attendance 127,621) - story | video (2) LA SEXTA Final: Real Madrid 2-1 Partizán (11/05/1966) Real Madrid XI: Araquistáin, Pachín, De Felipe, Zoco, Sanchis, Pirri, Velázquez, Serena, Amancio, Grosso y Gento Scorers: Amancio Amaro 70, Serena 76 Stadium: King Baudouin Stadium - Brussels (attendance 46,745) - Story | video LA SÉPTIMA Final: Real Madrid 1-0 Juventus (20/05/1998) Real Madrid XI: Illgner, Panucci, Hierro, Sanchís, Roberto Carlos, Seedorf, Karembeu, Redondo, Raúl (Amavisca, 90’), Mijatovic (Suker, 89’) y Morientes (Jaime,81’). Scorers: Mijatović 66 Stadium: Amsterdam ArenA – Amsterdam (attendance 48,500) - Story | video (2) LA OCTAVA Final: Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (24/05/2000) Real Madrid XI: Casillas, Míchel Salgado (Hierro, 85’), Iván Campo, Iván Helguera, Karanka, Roberto Carlos, McManaman, Redondo, Raúl, Anelka (Sanchís, 80’) y Morientes (Savio, 72’). Scorers: Morientes 39, McManaman 67, Raúl González 75 Stadium: Stade de France - Saint-Denis (attendance 80,000) - story | video LA NOVENA Final: Real Madrid 2-1 Bayer Leverkusen (15/05/2002) Real Madrid XI: César (Casillas, 68’), Salgado, Hierro, Helguera, Roberto Carlos, Figo (McManaman, 61’), Makelele (Conceiçao, 73’), Solari, Zidane, Raúl y Morientes. Scorers: Raúl González 8, Zidane 45 Stadium: Hampden Park – Glasgow (attendance 50,499) - story | video (2) LA DÉCIMA Final: Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético (24/05/2014) Real Madrid XI: Real Madrid: Casillas, Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Coentrão (Marcelo, 59’), Khedira (Isco, 59’), Di María, Modric, Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo y Benzema (Morata, 79’). Scorers: Ramos 90+3, Bale 110, Marcelo 118, Ronaldo 120 (P) Stadium: Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Lisbon (attendance 60,976) - story | video

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Marcelo’s victory tears

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OMFG ISCO

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More than 10,000 fans in Plaza de los Sagrados Corazones shouting “¡Cómo no te voy a querer!” 

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This is Cristano Ronaldo, Real Madrid and Portuguese footballer, and all round decent guy who came from humble beginnings in Madeira and has never forgotten them.

tumblr, meet your pink flower-wearing, gender-stereotype-defying, global superstar athlete prince:

I don’t know why people are so interested in what I wear on holiday. Last year, when I was in LA, everyone was talking about my tight trunks. Have you seen what people in LA wear? I was the most normal dressed person over there. Anyway, what’s wrong with wearing tight pants? They look good and it’s better than having tan lines down your legs. 

This year it was the pink hat with the flower. I don’t see what is wrong with it. I can see why, if you weren’t comfortable with your sexuality, you might not wear it. But I’m very comfortable so it’s not a problem for me. Men wear pink these days. OK, not many men wear flowers, but it’s good to be different.

he also supports gay marriage:

“The Portuguese man that I am, I try to keep informed about what is happening in my country. I know the law was passed and the comment it deserves is that we must respect the choices made by anyone, because, after all, all citizens should have the exact same rights and responsibilities.”

and is a bone marrow donor:

I’ve been a bone marrow donor for several years. (Donating bone marrow) is something a lot of people think is a difficult thing to do but it’s nothing more than drawing blood and doesn’t hurt. I did it many years ago and if I had to do it again I would because this is a very serious disease for many children and we need to help them. There’s no age limit to this problem, so I think it’s a good time to tell people they can do it. It doesn’t cost anything, it’s a simple process and then you feel happy because you know you are helping another person.“

he also publicly speaks out against racism, has committed his time and efforts to forest conservation in southeast asia (as part of his decade-long advocacy for the victims and survivors of the 2004 tsunami), and personally intervened to stop a teenaged fan from being deported after the guy ran onto the field to meet him at a match, among other things. 

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There is a deep-rooted dislike of over-confidence in sport, a trait that the English in particular seem to loathe. Perhaps this is a hangover from a time when sport was pastime rather than business, demanding a certain standard of decorum. Football’s laws still refer to ‘ungentlemanly’ conduct. It’s an impossible balance. We are happy to idolise our sportspeople, lavishing them with praise, but will show disdain towards those who sing their own praises. We want players to dedicate themselves to becoming elite, yet we do not want that dedication to be self-serving. […] This inevitably creates blurred lines. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s arrogance has gained a cult following, while Muhammed Ali’s public boasts have become iconic. Eric Cantona was self-confident to the point of parody, his swagger and bravado the defining aspect of his style. To criticise Ronaldo for his ego is to misunderstand the role that such confidence plays at the highest level. There is a necessity for self-confidence in sport, because it provides belief; nobody ever won a race they did not believe they could win. Arrogance is borne out of a desire to cover up vulnerability. At the highest level of sport, vulnerability is exploited as a weakness; arrogance is the comfort blanket. Ego also allows for setbacks to be acknowledged and then vanquished, with psychological studies revealing that those with high self-confidence are likely to enjoy increased long-term performance. Success breeds confidence and confidence breeds success. Sports psychologist Bill Beswick, who has worked with Manchester United and England, takes that line. “Ego is very powerful and can be the driving force behind performance. Roy Keane had intense self-belief. He maximised his ego to make the absolute best of himself.” There is a difference between Keane’s ego and Ronaldo’s, of course, but that is only natural. Just as players rely on speed, strength and technical ability in differing quantities, so too with ego. It is not difficult to understand why Ronaldo is disliked. He will forever be a divisive figure, a stunning on-field record undermined by his personality in the minds of millions who will never meet him. Those are the pitfalls of success and fame. Yet those wanting him to tone down or address his ego are foolish in the extreme. Not every player needs to be arrogant to succeed, but for some it helps to drive them forward. For Ronaldo, it is his raison d’etre. “You have to see the good things from the haters,” Ronaldo says. “I need the enemy.” He shouldn’t worry; they’re not going away any time soon.

Cristiano Ronaldo and a necessary arrogance by Daniel Storey for Football365 (via footieridiculosity)

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Lest we ever forget how mental Italian football is

In the 1982 World Cup, in the Italy national team, a rumour about the sexuality of two players became so rampant and vicious that the entire team, from players to technical staff, decided to have a media blackout and stopped speaking to the press altogether.

I’d always heard, from my family in Italy, that the rumours started because Paolo Rossi and Antonio Cabrini, roommates at the Azzurri’s base in Vigo, Spain, were photographed looking out of their room’s window together - a money shot if there were ever one!!

Paolo Rossi, reflecting in 2012: “I believe that we were often seen together from a balcony in the hotel where we stayed in Vigo, facing each other, maybe in the mornings, wearing pyjamas.“

Recently I was, uh, inspired to do a little research. It appears that while ‘the stage was set’ with those very scandalous balcony photos, the spark was a joke that Paolo Rossi made to a reporter for Il Giorno. This Brazilian book called Love, Sex and Betrayal in Cups a) is an actual book that exists and b) claims that the journalist included the joke in an article, preserving its jesting tone, but other news outlets picked up the story unironically. The rumours spread like wildfire after that.

Antonio Cabrini said something similar in 2012: “He [Claudio Pea, the journalist] included the exchange [with Rossi] in the paper to distinguish the article from the usual sports interviews and this unleashed the scandal and whatnot in the international press.”

A rough summary of events:

Claudio Pea (journalist): Apparently we press folks just hung out under your window all the time. Sup guys. Looks like you just woke up…together?? So which one is the woman, ha ha? Paolo Rossi: Well, I am less pretty than Antonio, so he is the woman and I am the man. Italian press: OMG, Cabrini and Rossi are “living as man and wife”!!! [actual quote] Italy NT: …Y’all have got got no chill. Blocked.

Italy ended up winning World Cup 1982. Paolo Rossi was the tournament’s top scorer. 

I think this story is a fascinating look into masculinity performance (I think is that’s the term) and homophobia. And there’s zero chance that the hysteria was not some Freudian way of expressing how much all of Italy wanted to fuck Antonio Cabrini in the ‘80s.

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Zidane’s welcome video

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11/01/16 | Sergio Ramos: “Changing the coach has done us a lot of good. We hope 2016 is a big year for Real Madrid.”

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Normal conversation between ball and player