‘Ladies and gentlemen, the game begins!’ Would exclaim a lifelong narrator, as a metaphor for the staging of the Real. The most powerful broadcasting machine of the club has been launched with the final of the Cup. A clear staging that in Anoeta they turn body and soul, from now on, in the historic derby against him Athletic April 3. The shirt that the finalists will wear was put on sale yesterday, in limited edition, in official stores.
The voices coincide, through the different public appearances, that it is not yet time to dedicate the five senses to the final, but the Real has shown that the summit duel against the Athletic It acquires all the validity without further delay. The first two captains of the squad, Asier
Illarramendi Y Mikel
Oyarzabal; an essential member of the spinal column as Mikel
Merino; and the top scorer, Alexander
Isak, were the faces chosen by the entity to announce with great fanfare the champion skin that the Real will wear in The
Charterhouse. The maximum exponents of the hard core, to the fore, dressing up for the gala, for the occasion.
There's no going back: the all-time derby is just around the corner. To Real He has two league games left until playing in the capital of Andalusia: against him grenade in The
Carmen is this Sunday (4.15pm) and before the Barcelona in Anoeta the next, day 21 (9:00 p.m.). To the Athletic, counting on the pending commitment that resolves today with the Athletic
of
Madrid, you have three previous appointments. In front of Celtic in Bullets (Sunday, 2:00 p.m.) and Eibar in San Mamés (Saturday 20, 2:00 p.m.).
Go for the jewel in the crown
The exclusive T-shirt for the final costs € 75 for adults and € 70 for children. There are discounts for members. The response from the fans was exciting: even in the worst moments, in the midst of a pandemic, they go out of their way for Real.
People threw themselves for this ‘jewel in the crown’ and in the two stores of Donostia queues were seen to dress up. Both in the central establishment of the street Elkano, as in the outskirts of Anoeta, where the first follower who bought the shirt there appeared at 13 minutes! that the Royal made the initiative public.
Exactly at 10.13 am, “a person who lived here”, according to sources consulted by MD, approached the store before anyone else Anoeta. The rest of the day was an incessant trickle of fans in search of the elastic for the final. Followers of all generations gathered in the premises, although youth prevailed. In the morning alone, no more than five products were sold other than the final jersey. The 10th of Oyarzabal won by a landslide in the choice of the number. On 19 Isak, the 8th of Merino and the 21 of Silva they were also highly sought after.
La Real will attend a meeting tomorrow Thursday to define the logistics of the final. It is assumed that there will be no public in La Cartuja, in the absence of the clubs involved receiving official confirmation from the Spanish Federation.