El Real Madrid basketball offered this Thursday the thirty-seventh of the leagueachieved on Wednesday by winning three games against UCAM Murcia, and visited the headquarters of the Community of Madrid and the City Council.
The first stop was the headquarters of the Community, located in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, where the team was received by the president, Isabel Díaz Ayusowho was presented with a team t-shirt.
Captain Sergio Llull stressed that the one that has just ended has been “a very long and very hard season”, but it has been a “tremendous satisfaction to finish it well”. “We are very proud of the work done. Hopefully we can return next year with more titles,” said the Spaniard.
The president of the club, Florentino Pérez, highlighted in his speech that this “It has once again been a great season” for the basketball team “with three titles”. “Always faithful to the values of Madrid fans: sacrifice, not giving up, humility, respect and solidarity,” she added.
Pérez stressed that the team “He has played 86 games and has achieved 72 victories. He has known how to suffer and have caused the admiration of all those who love basketball.
The Madrid president referred to the coach, Chus Mateos, who “has won all possible titles”, to Llullwho “in 18 seasons and is already a player with the most games: 1,083, and has won 28 titles.”
He also referred to Rudy Fernández, who says goodbye to the club: “Thank you for what you have given us in these 13 seasons. We will never forget the historic ovation that the WiZink Center dedicated to you last Monday” after the second game of the final.
Furthermore, Pérez congratulated the rival in the final, UCAM Murcia, “a great rival.” “Congratulations to the entire team,” he added.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso highlighted that Real Madrid occupies “a third of the Community’s guest book.” “I hope these weeks of glory are repeated many times,” she added.
Also He had words of tribute to the “great Rudy Fernández”, who “is going to participate in six Olympic Games”. The president of the Community made Rudy take the stand to offer him a surprise: a video with some of his best actions with the Real Madrid shirt.
For Díaz Ayuso, Real Madrid “represents this international and fashionable Madrid more than ever”and said that “it is the most important basketball team in the world.”
After the players go out to the balcony of the Community, to greet the fans gathered at Puerta del Solto whom Sergio Rodríguez thanked everyone for their support in achieving what he considered “a spectacular year”, the delegation headed to the Cibeles Palace, headquarters of the capital’s City Council.
There they were received at the same door of the Palace by the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who later in his speech to the Madrid team He said that it is difficult to say something different than on other occasions because “you come so much” and “we are happy about it and we hope you continue coming.”
Almeida, likewise, described as “amazing” the “feats you are achieving” in the last decade: “The number of titles links you with the best in the history of Real Madrid, of basketball in general. You are a great team. You do not compete against others, but rather you compete against the history of Real Madrid. “It is the toughest competition you can have, to overcome the history of Real Madrid.”
After congratulating them on the 37th title achieved (“overcoming your particular with the soccer team, which is already 36 and it is said soon”) and tell them that they are “the pride of this city”, Almeida wanted to dedicate a few words to Rudy Fernández, who announced his retirement after the Paris Olympic Games.
“To honor someone we feel so proud of. All of us from Madrid would have liked to participate in that ovation the other day.” (in the sports palace, after the second game of the final with UCAM Murcia), that was short in time, because you deserve much more. “Everything you have given to the city of Madrid we are going to return to you in duplicate or triplicate, because without a doubt you deserve it,” said the mayor towards Rudy Fernández.
Almeida also jokingly said goodbye by pointing out that “we are thinking about giving you an apartment in Cibeles, because you came more than us.” “And we are sure we will see you next year,” he added.
Florentino Pérez, for his part, after thanking the mayor of Madrid, to reaffirm that “the essence of Real Madrid is to win” and “make the club’s history bigger every day”praising his players and the rest of the team “breaking records that seem impossible”, he also had words of praise for the fans and Rudy Fernández.
As did captain Llull later, who did not hesitate to point out that Rudy gave the team “that leap in quality to win and to believe that we could win.”
After that, Almeida gave Florentino Pérez a replica of the Puerta de Alcalá, which is one of the symbols of the city of Madrid, and Rudy Fernández a lithograph painting with the Plaza de Cibeles.
For him Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez handed over Almeida a replica of the 37th league; while Llull gave him a personalized team shirt with the number 1
