Ronaldo dan Bale Pimpin Pesta Kemenangan Real di Madrid
Ronaldo and Bale Celebrate Champions League Victory with Team-mates on Streets of Madrid
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
CRISTIANO Ronaldo dan Gareth Bale memimpin pesta kemenangan Real Madrid di jalan utama di Madrid, ibukota Spanyol untuk merayakan kemenangan Liga Champions atas rival sekota, Atletico Madrid.
Para pemain Real merayakan dengan para pendukungnya pada Minggu dini hari di atas bus tingkat terbuka di Cibeles Square, di Madrid, hanya beberapa jam setelah menang 4-1 melalui perpanjangan waktu, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Carlo Ancelotti dan para pemainnya langsung kembali ke Madrid setelah final di Lisbon dan pesta berlangsung hingga larut malam.
Kten tim Iker Casillas dan Sergio Ramos berbagi kehormatan mengalungkan bendera tim di leher patung Cibeles di tengah air mancur di alun-alun kota.
Musik meraung meramaikan suasana hingga pukul 6 pagi, ketika tim Real mengenakan kaos 'La Decima' di baju mereka mengacu pada gelar ke-10 mereka yang dinanti-nanti selama 12 tahun, akhirnya piala tersebut kembali ke pangkuan mereka.
Itu bisa saja sangat berbeda setelah Diego Godin membuat Atletico unggul sembilan menit sebelum turun, dan skuad asuhan Diego Simeone hingga 90 menit laga berpeluang meraih gelar juara tetapi Sergio Ramos melalui sundulan kepalanya di menit ke-93 yang memaksa terjadi perpanjangan waktu.
Saat penting datang lima menit memasuki babak kedua perpanjangan waktu ketika Bale menyundul setelah menerima umpan dari Angel Di Maria. Kekecewaan melanda Atletico, moral pemain pun runtuh setelah itu, Marcelo dan Cristiano Ronaldo menambah kemenangan menjadi 4-1 untuk merebut kembali gelar ke Bernabeu untuk kesepuluh kalinya dalam sejarah mereka.
Bale - yang dikontrak dari Spurs di awal musim ini ditransfer senilai 86 juta poundsterling - bersikeras bahwa ia dan rekan satu timnya selalu percaya mereka bisa membalikkan keadaan, meskipun sempat tertinggal 1-0 hingga menit ke-90.
"Bagi kami ketika bermain sepak bola kita bertekad memenangkan pertandingan dan upayanya hanyalah menyerang dan terus menekan lawan hingga menjebol gawang," kata Bale.
"Kami percaya itu dan kami percaya jika kita terus berusaha kami akan menang."
CRISTIANO Ronaldo and Gareth Bale lead the celebrations as Real Madrid took to the streets of the Spanish capital to celebrate their Champions League victory over city rivals Atletico.
The Real players celebrated with fans in the early hours on Sunday morning on an open top bus in Cibeles Square in Madrid just hours after the 4-1 win in extra time.
Carlo Ancelotti and his players headed straight back to Madrid after the final in Lisbon and the celebrations went on long into the night.
Team captains Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos shared the honour of draping a team flag around the neck of the Cibeles statue in the centre of the fountain in the square.
Music blared from a makeshift stage kept supporters going until around 6am, when the Real team, wearing 'La Decima' on their shirts in reference to the 10th title they had coveted for 12 years, finally arrived back with the trophy.
It could have been so different after Diego Godin put Atletico in front nine minutes before half time, and Diego Simeone's side looked destined to get their hands on the trophy but Sergio Ramos popped up in the 93rd minute to send it to extra-time.
The crucial moment came five minutes into the second period of extra-time when Bale nodded home at the far post after good work from Angel Di Maria. Disappointingly for Atletico, they collapsed after that, with Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo making it 4-1 to take the title back to the Bernabeu for the tenth time in their history.
Bale – who signed from Spurs in the summer for £86million - insisted that he and his team-mates always believed they could come back to win, despite being behind for most of the final.
'For us when we play our own football we win matches and it was literally just about attacking and keep doing what we do best,' Bale said.
'We believe in that and we believed if we kept doing that we would win.'
