Did you know that Real Madrid played league games on Christmas Eve?

After his hit at the table last Wednesday in San Mamés before him Athletic (1-2), the Real Madrid will not compete again until Sunday, January 2, 2022 (2:00 p.m.), in front of the Getafe at the Coliseum, in a match corresponding to matchday 19 of La Liga Santander, last of the first round. The white players, like the rest of the teams of First division, they will be able to enjoy the Good night Y Christmas together with their families, without having to play matches on such special dates as is traditionally done in the Premier League English with the sacred Boxing Day.

Currently, according to the current Collective Agreement, LaLiga stops by Christmas. However, in the 1930s it was not uncommon for there to be parties of First during the Christmas holidays. The Real Madrid, specifically, he played two games in Good night, at the dawn of the League Spanish.

The first was a Sunday, December 24, 1933, on day 8 of the top flight championship. The Madrid visited in the field of Buenavista al Oviedo and lost 3-2. Chuslé put the Asturians ahead in the 22nd minute, Luis Regueiro tied in the 32 ‘, a 1-1 with which it arrived at the rest. The end of the game was crazy. In 82 ‘, Little blacksmith He overtook the Oviedo again, just two minutes later, Manuel Olivares equaled for the white team and finally the mythical international from Gipuzkoa Isidro Langara, nicknamed the ‘Tank’, gave victory to the locals with the match practically over (88 ‘).

In the chronicle of The sports world of that already very distant party it was reported that “he could not Madrid leave the Buenavista field undefeated, and the fact is that it would not have been very difficult for him to achieve it. It would just have needed a little bit of wisdom on the part of Zamora Y Quesada, the goalkeeper and defense so many international times, but now they do not pass, far from it, for their best moment (…) Oviedo He didn’t play a great match, but he put more courage into the fight than his opponents. “

The other party that the Madrid disputed in Good night It happened on a Sunday, December 24, 1939. That day, the merengue team was visiting Sweep for the first time in history. The year the Civil war, the celestial entity debuted in First division and on the fourth day he received the whites after losing the first three games.

The Celtic, trained by Ricardo Comesaña, marked first by means of Manuel Copena ‘Nolete’ (8 ‘) and Juan Antonio Ipiña tied at 10 ‘. Then came a double from the forward Ramón Masagué Petit (20 ‘and 30’ ‘), a Catalan footballer born in Montcada and Reixac that he only played two games with Madrid in the First Division. Agustin Jarabo closed the gap with a goal in the 55th minute that did not prevent the victory by 2-3 of the merengue team led by the Malaga player Francisco Bru.

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