Díaz Ayuso thanks him for “being part of Madrid, where the best play and win”
Almeida jokes about an expanded closet due to the number of t-shirts received after his appointment as mayor
MADRID, 19 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, received this Monday Real Madrid for winning its twenty-ninth Copa del Rey basketball tournament and congratulated it for a new success and for its role to enhance the figure of the city and the region.
The first visit of the Madrid team was to the Real Casa de Correos, headquarters of the regional Government, where its president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, thanked them for “making Madrid an increasingly brilliant place” and also “being part” of a region “where the best play and win.”
“It is an immense joy to celebrate a new victory that adds to an unbeatable record. Thank you for making Madrid an increasingly brilliant place,” said Díaz Ayuso during the reception for the Madrid team after winning the Copa del Rey.
The leader gave “congratulations to everyone” who is part of the team, “especially to the people” who support the players “behind each match of each match, or each defeat, of which there are some.” In this sense she addressed coach Chus Mateo, “for whom they made it very difficult when he arrived.” “He always happens with comparisons. It was a complicated challenge, but he has proven to be an unbeatable coach,” he stressed.
Díaz Ayuso made it clear that Real Madrid “is not only one of the best teams in the world” but also “has that great fan base, a whole that becomes a giant every time the field goes out to play” and that the victory in Malaga “strengthens the values that accompany athletes” and that each person must apply themselves “on a daily basis” to achieve “each goal” they set for themselves. “What is more difficult, is more appreciated, if something is easy it is that perhaps we are not doing it correctly,” he warned.
“You are great ambassadors for Madrid, your shield reaches the ends of the earth seducing millions of people who come here asking about you. We are becoming one of the most attractive regions to live, invest, train or bet on a future “continued the regional president.
The president did not forget the region's commitment to hosting “large events” and having “great facilities and great athletes”, emphasizing that there are “164 basketball schools, more than 500 clubs and licenses that do not stop increasing” to practice. a sport that “with its contained rhythm reflects people's ability to adapt to changes and face adversity with courage.”
“This is the success of a team that gives everything from the beginning to the end. Thank you for being part of Madrid, where the best also play and win,” said Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who received from the president of Real Madrid Florentino Pérez a replica of the Copa del Rey and from the hands of captain Sergio Llull a team shirt.
MARTÍNEZ-ALMEIDA: “I HAVE HAD TO EXPAND MY WARDROBE BECAUSE OF THE SHIRTS”
Subsequently, the team moved to the Cibeles Palace, headquarters of the City Council, where they were received by Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who celebrated that they brought “joy to this city.” “A joy to which we have become accustomed throughout its more than century-long existence,” he admitted.
“The first thing to say is that we have become accustomed to it being normal for this basketball team to win however it wins, when it is absolutely exceptional how it wins, the frequency with which it wins and the values it transmits. I am sure that you will be remembered for a very long period of time in the history of such an award-winning, winning entity, but in which you already occupy a place and a gap that is undoubtedly enormous because you have turned winning titles into something normal as exceptional,” the councilor continued. .
Of “the many details” that the final against Barça left, the mayor of the capital opted to stay with “the team spirit that permeates all the sporting feats” that he is achieving, personified in the words of Facundo Campazzo upon being elected ' MVP' and that “the first thing” he did was “thank the team for the work they had done.”
“That is why the city of Madrid is enormously proud to have an institution like Real Madrid, that you are part of this city, that you spend it not only in Spain but throughout the world, that you are a source of pride and a window to the world of a city as wonderful as Madrid and that you also do it precisely through sport and knowing how to transmit all the values,” he highlighted.
Martínez-Almeida, who also received gifts from Florentino Pérez and Sergio Llull, had “a memory” and “a tribute” for coach Chus Mateo and his coaching staff for their “work”, their “gear” and their “understanding.” with the players”, and recalled that in June 2019 when “he was a newly elected mayor”, the Madrid basketball team was “the first to visit this house”.
“I had the honor of receiving the first Real Madrid shirt that I have received throughout my life and I remember that at that moment the team captain Felipe Reyes made a joke and told me that I looked like I was going to have to “I bought a closet for all the Real Madrid shirts that I was going to receive in my years as mayor and you are fulfilling that prophecy. I have had to expand the closet thanks to you and let it last for many years,” the faithful mayor stated with a smile. Atlético de Madrid fan.