Atlético has already decided. He will not make a corridor to Madrid, who has just conquered the League with authority, next Sunday at the Metropolitano (9:00 p.m.). The white team has dethroned the mattress team, which won the title last season. “Some want to convert what was born as a gesture of recognition to the champion into a public toll that their rivals must pay, also impregnated with the aroma of humiliation”, the rojiblanco club has indicated to justify its decision, which some players such as oblakone of the captains, and Gimenezafter the defeat in San Mamés with Athletic.
“Under no circumstances will Atlético de Madrid collaborate in this mockery attempt in which the true values of sport are completely forgotten and tension and confrontation are encouraged”, the mattress entity has energetically underlined, who later recalled some precedents of corridors that were not made. He did so without issuing any official statement.
“Exaggerated and artificial controversy”
“Atleti is the last league champion. Does anyone remember any controversy about whether they should receive a hall from their first rival after winning the title?”, the Madrid club asked to answer, immediately, itself. “No, because there was no debate.”
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In this sense, the red-and-white team recalled that they won two Leagues and “on some occasions there was some kind of tribute from the rival team to our champion team and on others not”, expressing, at the same time, their surprise “because they never neither an expectation nor a controversy was generated as exaggerated and artificial as the one we have been experiencing in recent weeks”.