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Wed 15 Mar 2023 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Champions League: Perez celebrates the continental title, "to score the fifteenth"






Madrid (AFP) - Real Madrid club president Florentino Perez, who won the Champions League after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the final on Saturday, appealed to his team's players to turn their attention to winning the Continental Cup for the fifteenth time, during the royal club's coronation celebrations. With thousands of his supporters Sunday in the capital, Madrid.


Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior won the title in favor of Real Madrid by scoring the match's only goal in the 59th minute, extending his team's record in the number of continental titles to 14. Real Madrid players boarded an open-top bus around the city to celebrate, and it stopped at Almudena Cathedral, the seat of government and the city's municipality, and Plaça Cibeles. Finally, the club's Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Peres addressed the club's supporters, saying, "Real Madrid has made history once again, and here we are crowning the fourteenth European Cup and the thirty-fifth championship in the Spanish League." He added, "This European cup that we won by defeating a legendary club like Liverpool is one of the greatest trophies in the history of the Champions League. "The legend of this club is growing bigger and bigger.


We have defeated four of the best teams in Europe by always fighting and believing until the end," referring to Paris Saint-Germain (the final price), Chelsea (the quarter-finals), Manchester City (the semi-finals) and Liverpool. "It was a great season," he said. And it was achieved in one of the most beautiful and difficult times in our history. Five Champions Leagues in eight years is something very hard to forget for football fans from all over the world. Madrid is eternal. And now, let's win the fifteenth title.”Peres praised the Italian coach of Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti, who became the first coach to win the Champions League four times (twice with AC Milan and twice with Real Madrid) and the first coach to win all five major European championships after his team won the Spanish League title. "He embodies Real Madrid," he said in this regard.


Real players wore black suits, white shirts and black ties, and raised the two cups (the domestic league and the Champions League) while they were signing shirts, presenting signatures, and taking memorial photos with their supporters. Frenchman Karim Benzema and Brazilian Marcelo participated in carrying the Champions League Cup, while Croatian Luka Modric and Nacho carried "I didn't sleep much, I had so much adrenaline that I couldn't sleep," said Real Madrid's Belgian international goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was named the best player in the final. "I still can't believe what happened, it's an incredible feeling. It's a great honor for me to play for Real Madrid and I hope I can help the team win more titles."

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