The most anticipated appointment of the Champions League arrived. Atlético de Madrid and Real Madrid dispute the return of the round of 16 at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano. The tie comes completely open after the victory of Ancelotti by minimum (2-1) in Santiago Bernabéu. The rojiblanco team will seek the comeback and eliminate for the first time in the maximum continental competition to its eternal rival. And for this they will turn their stadium into hell.
An encounter to life or death that will live with special tension the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz-Ayuso and the mayor of the capital José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who has never hidden her rojiblanca passion. Recognized follower of Real Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has not cut to congratulate and support her team. Even in 2021, he made a promise if the white team wins the Champions League: “If Real Madrid wins the Champions League, I promise to put a white t -shirt and scarf.” The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, is a faithful follower of Atlético de Madrid and responded through social networks to this promise of Ayuso: “It’s easier than a camel between the eye of a needle …” A promise that could not fulfill because that year the City was champion.
But not only will it keep Madrid in Madrid but to much of the political class of this country, Always very attentive to what happens in our football especially – whether for love or hate – if it is Real Madrid.
Who will Sánchez support?
Soccer raises passions in Spain and politics is no stranger to it. If the debate of the State of the Nation moved to the football field, the interventions of the deputies would not be less energetic and passionate. In fact, the king sport has not lacked in many parliamentary interventions such as when Gabriel Rufián criticized the celebration of the World Cup in Qatar or threw irony in the investiture debate: “Spain breaks because Girona now goes first.” Íñigo Errejón also brought football to the political field when he requested in Congress that the Spanish team wore the colors of the rainbow in the Catar 2022 Soccer World Cup In protest of the law of the Arab country, what a penalty with the jail to whom he exhibits LGTBI+ flags During the sports competition.
Both football and politics carry in their DNA a certain dose of passion and has even served to make comparisons that have given much to talk about. ERC spokesman launched an ingenious comparison: “There are two great entities in this country to which before giving them for dead you have to wait a while. Real Madrid in Champions and the other is Pedro Sánchez.”
However, It must be the only thing that unites the white team and Pedro Sánchez who has always confessed to support other colors.
A white past
The president of the Government has always stated that in his heart he carries the colors of Atlético de Madrid. He is not very football but ensures that his love for the mattress team comes from his stage in the students (Sánchez studied at the Ramiro de Maeztu school and played in the quarry of the Collegiate team). He is also a firm defender of Cholo Simeone with whom he shares the mantra of the “game by party”. Although many do not know, he betrayed his colors coming to play in the lower categories of Real Madrid.
Pedro Sánchez has a Madrid past, as explained in the AS: “A friend of mine, who was in the lower categories of Real Madrid, told me to go to the tests. I took me and entered in what was then known as the social tournament, in the old sports city, where the teams were called as the players; I was in the ‘Galician’. They tested me in different positions, but above all central, for the stride I had and my height: with 12 or 13 years I measured more than a seventy subway. But I have to admit that football was bored and played central and decided to leave it. ” He threw basketball, became students and Atlético de Madrid and buried his white past.
Although he has congratulated them – complying with their institutional work – for their titles, He has never shown for whites the sympathy that he has not hesitated to make public for FC Barcelona. Tonight Sánchez He will not hesitate to put on the rojiblanca elastic that Cerezo gave him to encourage Atlético and dream of the comeback.