On June 4, 2021 I do not know if it will go down in the history of Spanish football for the friendly between Spain and Portugal. What will go down in history as the day the fans returned to the stands to cheer on the national team. There were few, about 15,000, but enough to make this hot Friday in Madrid a historic day.
Many families and young fans were coming to the Wanda Metropolitano. Dressed in the red jersey of the national team. The current one, but also from other times. That didn't matter, the important thing was that they were finally going to see the national team live. Some of those t-shirts bore the name of Iniesta and also of Sergio Ramos.
The first one to get the cheers of the fans was Unai Simon, the international who first took to the field with De Gea and Robert Sánchez.
There were not only shirts from La Roja, but also from Real Madrid and many from Atlético de Madrid. Although this time not to cheer on their teams, if not to be with the national team in their first game on the way to the European Championship. A good number of Portuguese fans also attended the game, who also gave color to the stands of the Metropolitano.
The fans who first entered the stadium were those from the high stands of the south end, north end and east side. Then the rest of the areas: middle and lower tiers of bottoms and east side. All of them passed temperature control, they put on hydroalcoholic gel and, obviously, the mask was mandatory.