Ramos, everything started with you

Madrid will debut the stage with the return of LaLiga next weekend (Sunday, against Eibar at 19:30). The Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium awaits you. But for the team captain, Sergio Ramos, it will not be a new experience. In fact, he is the only one left in the squad of that Madrid that opened the charming Valdebebas stadium on May 9, 2006. And something bigger for the camero. He can boast to his teammates that he was the author of the first goal scored in Di Stéfano. He did it with his left foot …

It was on the occasion of the official opening of the stadium, for which Madrid invited the Stade de Reims, a team that gave Di Stéfano great memories as he was the rival of the First (4-3 in 1956) and the Fourth European Cup of the club (2-0 in 1959). Two endings in which The Arrow saw door (as in the finals of 1957, 1958 and 1960). Madrid lined up a high-level eleven, formed by Casillas; Salgado, Mejía, Ramos, Roberto Carlos; Guti, Beckham, Zidane; Robinho, Raúl and Cassano. Despite the qualified attack players there were, the 1-0 was the work of Ramos, who took advantage of the rejection he himself caused by heading over Weber's goal and clearing it as best he could. It was the first goal in Di Stéfano's history at just 20 years old. The boy was already pointing ways …

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Two goals from Cassano (unpublished almost all year for his problems with the scale) gave rise to a second half starring the youth squads that López Caro took after the break. Soldier, now in Granada, made a spectacular double, with a Chilean similar to Pelé's in Evasion or Victory. And Jury, with a precise volley, put his stamp with Diego López, Arbeloa, Pavón, Raúl Bravo or De la Red. Di Stéfano was enjoying himself in the box of authorities with the interim president, Luis Gómez Montejano.

But apart from Ramos's goal, the other great protagonist of the game was Zidane, who last night wore the Real Madrid shirt, sad news that added to a very bad sports year for the team. In reality, his goodbye had happened two days before in the League match played by Madrid and Villarreal at the Bernabéu, in a great game of football that was sealed with six goals (3-3), one of them putting Zidane with his privileged head .

Two days later the club asked him to accompany the team at the inauguration of Di Stéfano and Zinedine delightedly accepted, forming a luxury sock with Guti and Beckham. Zizou took, after Don Alfredo, the biggest ovation of that evening.