Real Madrid brings home the Eleventh. The white club has had a crowd bath in the Community and the City Council of the capital after winning a Euroleague to remember. The Whites’ victory was cemented with a history-making comeback against Partizán, together with a Final Four in which they beat the second and first classified in the regular phase, Barcelona and Olympiacos respectively. The final against the Greeks was truly crazy and concluded with a shot for history by Sergio Llull, who scored his only basket of the game from a jump shot and certified the victory of the whites, who have raised the greatest success of the Old Continent for the eleventh time in their long history. A triumph for the annals that vindicates a team and an extraordinary project.
The entire entity, with the coaching staff and players, left the Real Madrid City pavilion at 12:00 and headed for the Community headquarters, where a large number of fans were waiting for them. President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Florentino Pérez and the captain, Sergio Llull, spoke at the institutional act. The first two praised the white feat and the white president stressed the importance of Llull’s basket and the work of Chus Mateo. The Spaniard, responsible for raising the Eleventh, was permanently smiling. “It has been a very difficult year. No one had come back from 0-2 against and it could not be other than Real Madrid and in the Final four. Everyone has been amazing. It is a team that has never given up and has not given up”, confessed the Madrid captain, who was hopeful in “coming back soon” with the League trophy.
Chus Mateo He was one of the stars of the morning. Florentino Pérez, just as he did immediately after Real Madrid were proclaimed champions, once again referred to the coach, who stopped briefly to attend to Ace before heading to the Town Hall. The technician assured that he is “glad”. “This is not comparable to anything else”. When asked if he had been unfairly treated, Mateo gave the opposite opinion and quickly settled the issue: “No, no. We must be proud of what we have achieved”. A resounding success for Real Madrid, who lifted the trophy of the biggest continental competition. Something that, as Florentino Pérez highlighted, was already achieved in 2015 and 2018. A project full of successes.
After the Community, the team headed to the Madrid City Hall, where the Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida paid tribute to the champions, who previously presented the cup to the fans on the balcony of the Puerta del Sol in front of a crowd of fans. Juan Carlos Sánchez, head of Real Madrid’s basketball section, allowed fans to touch the trophy with their own hands before the change of venue. A whole bath of crowds, totally deserved, after an unprecedented success. A team that in 24 days has gone from being 0-2 in the quarterfinals to winning the Euroleague in Kaunas with a shot to go down in history, that of Sergio Llull, 3 seconds from the end. Extraordinary.