Solved the mess with the League Cup. After several changes of plans, Real Madrid will finally receive the trophy this Sunday, at 9:30 a.m., in Valdebebas. Pedro Rocha, president of the RFEF, will be present, as well as Florentino Pérez and the entire white team. An unusual event behind closed doors that will allow the players to have the cup for the party in the streets of Madrid.
The team plans to visit the Community of Madrid this Sunday, starting at 11 in the morning and will later go to the City Hall, before finishing the party with the fans in Cibeles, the nerve center of the Madrid celebrations. They will also visit the Almudena Cathedral, as is usual in the titles won by Real Madrid.
It will be the first of the two events in which the Spanish Federation intends to present the cup to the white team. The one in Valdebebas will be informal and the official handover ceremony will take place at the Santiago Bernabéu on Tuesday, May 14, coinciding with the Real Madrid-Alavés League match.
Initially the Federation had the intention of handing the cup to Real Madrid this Saturday, at the Nuevo Los Cármenes. Something that the white club did not like at all, both because they could not receive it in front of their fans, and because of the lack of respect it meant for their rival, a Granada team that could confirm its relegation to the Second Division this weekend. “We are not going to receive it that day, we refuse,” they came to say from Real Madrid.
The response was a new change of plans by the RFEF, which then began to establish May 14 as the new date for the trophy presentation ceremony, this time at the Bernabéu and in front of the fans, coinciding with the League match against Alavés. This option also had loopholes, as it forced the white players to make institutional visits to the Community of Madrid and the capital's City Hall without the cup in their hands. Finally, on the third occasion, this unusual solution has been found to present, behind closed doors, the trophy this Sunday.
A party that the white club hopes can be double, as Real Madrid faces a key match tomorrow against Bayern, with whom they are playing for a ticket to the Champions League final. A tie that is currently tied (2-2) and that will be decided at the Bernabéu this Wednesday (9pm).
