The Real Madrid

21-Oct-23

For our last day in Madrid, we squeezed in a visit to Real Madrid's famous Bernabéu Stadium on our way to the airport. It's partly under construction, so we weren't able to get the full tour but we saw the trophy museum & viewed the new field currently being built.

Model of what the stadium will look like once it's finished, supposedly at the end of the year

The shoes Zinedine Zidane wore to score his famous winning goal of the 2002 European Cup in Glasgow 

Old leather soccer ball from the 1920-40's era

FIFA Club World Cup won in 2018

Spanish National League trophy won in 2020

Most recent win: Spanish Cup 2023

These photos are just a fraction of the trophies Real Madrid has won/are on display. However, they are they only team to have won the FIFA honorific of "Team of the Century" in 2000. I guess we'll have to wait another 100 years to see who's best in the 21st century 🙃

UEFA European Cup Real Madrid won in Paris 2022

The new field will work as a sectional, underground system that can raise or lower the grass field, depending on what event is being held there

It's been a good 3 weeks on the Iberian Peninsula; we're now headed to Morocco for a week-long guided tour across the country that'll give Nick a break from driving & me a chance to dust off my French 😬