Real Madrid’s title celebrations show no sign of abating.
The Spanish champions will go to city hall yesterday and tour other iconic sites in the capital to celebrate the 33rd league title they won this weekend.
The players arrived in Madrid at about 2:30 a.m. and went to meet the estimated 50,000 fans who had been waiting since the end of team’s match in the southern coastal city of Malaga. Madrid won 2-0 to finish three points ahead of Barcelona.
Players went to the club’s traditional celebration spot, the Plaza de Cibeles, on top of an open bus which carried the No. 33 and the words “champions” and “thank you madridistas,” which is what the team’s fans are called.
Fans chanted the club’s songs and anthem, and provoked rivals Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Defender Gerard Pique, the outspoken defender for the Catalan team, was their main target throughout the night.
The song “We Are The Champions” was played the whole time.
Players also talked to the crowd, with Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored one of the goals against Malaga, singing one of the traditional songs fans chant during Madrid matches.
Many of the team’s supporters stayed at the plaza long after the squad had left.
Madrid will be trying to win its third Champions League title in four seasons in a final against Juventus in Cardiff on June 3. It hadn’t won the league since 2012, and the last time it went five consecutive seasons without lifting the trophy had been from 1981-85.
A victory over Juventus next month will give Madrid its first European Cup-Spanish league double in nearly six decades. AP
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