Campeones de La Liga

Raul draping club scarf over the goddess Cibeles

The hopes and dreams of all Real Madrid fans were answered last week. Final score : 3-1. As i had stated in the last post, Real would have won unless they could slump that badly against Majorca. As always, Real matches are rather unpredictable at the beginning and well their first halves are generally quite bland. The end of the first half of Real matches seem to always leave me pondering over all the high hopes I place over this numero uno team.

even tom and katie were happy over the win
of their good friend's team

So yeah, Real have won the La Liga for the 3oth time. Their first silverware in 4 years signifying the end of the galacticos era as Beckham and Roberto Carlos would be leaving. MU fans seemed to also have a reason to celebrate since they would be obtaining about 2 million pounds from the transfer deals of Beckham and Van Nistelrooy. There was a rather different pace to the 'last' match as Van Nistelrooy, the usual hero of the game limped out of the game during the first half. That was when I felt that their hopes of winning were gone as Majorca had already scored a goal before that while Barca was flying ahead with almost 5 goals in their game.

2nd half started without beckham but everything seemed to be playing out well. Real's first goal from Reyes brought a sense of relief while the 2nd one from Diarra just confirmed the win. The Bernabeu was already roaring with the cheers of fans at that moment. With the third and last one from Reyes again, you just had that exciting urge to just end the match and celebrate right away. The happiness of the fans was bringing down the house. All this is quite impressive especially coz it was about 5 am malaysian time. Very few people wake up at such times just to catch la liga matches. Admittedly, I have only woken up or stayed up for a few matches I hoped to be interesting.

Congrats again to Real Madrid and the whole team. Mixed feelings still remain over Fabio Capello's position as coach. Frankly speaking I wouldn't mind if he gets fired. I've disliked him from the beginning anyway. Till the next season starts lets hope that Calderon will be able to attract more star players to replace the great ones who left. Thierry Henry is moving to Barcelona so Real better do something or risk defeat again next season.

-adios y hasta luego-