Goodbye, Vicente Calderón, by Patricia Cazón

Goodbye, Vicente Calderón
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Let's be realistic. If there is a mythical club par excellence in Spain, that is Atlético de Madrid. The myth is forged from victories against adversity and from hell after disastrous falls. This is the only way to achieve glory and what comes with it: the myth.

Sports myths are not only recorded in trophies. Beyond what you have been able to win or lose, there is always how you did it, how you competed and how your people felt integrated with your way of thinking and playing each moment.

After half a century the Calderón says goodbye. And many fans feel the loss and the grief. Because every athletic man made himself there, clinging to the hand of a father or a grandfather, watching with fascination the stands, its great imperfection and the feeling of so many throats and so many hearts. From the stands, on radio or television, the Calderón magnetized all his followers.

This book Hasta siempre, Vicente Calderón happens to be the best eulogy. A choral speech between emotions and memories, between frank laughter and touching tears. Kiko, Abelardo, Futre, Torres or Gabi share their stories between these pages, between the anecdotal and the transcendental, with the pride of belonging to those who always knew where their home was.

It is the law of life. The stadium is leaving. The Manzanares river will be orphaned. A certain hint of melancholy will accompany the athletic. But the truth is that nothing is new. To be athletic is to have that point of melancholy of a glory that is always touched, sometimes achieved and of course continuously longed for as a red and white horizon.

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