REAL MADRID OFFERS THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TROPHY TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Benzema, standing beside Marcelo, holds the Champions League Trophy as he shake hands with Cardinal Osoro / Credits - Archdiocese of Madrid

This Sunday, Real Madrid FC returned to Spain after winning the Champions League final and offered both Trophies, that is the Champions League and the La Liga title at the Spanish Football League won on April 30, 2022, to Our Lady of Almudena.

El @realmadrid ha ofrecido este domingo a la Virgen de la Almudena la última Liga y la decimocuarta Champions https://t.co/YnviVNmQN5

— Archidiócesis de Madrid (@archimadrid) May 29, 2022

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Real Madrid yesterday won the Champions League final by 1-0 against Liverpool of England. The match was played in Paris and the winning goal was scored by Vinicius Junior in the 59th minute.

The "merengue" team, was well received by tens of thousands of fans in the Streets of the Spanish capital, went straight to the Almudena Cathedral at about 6:15 pm, where Cardinal Carlos Osoro, Archbishop of Madrid, welcomed them.

It is not the first time that Real Madrid has offered the Champions League Trophy to Our Lady of Almudena, as it is a tradition that has several decades of history.

El Real Madrid ofrece la Copa de Europa a la Virgen de la Almudena, en un acto en la Catedral presidido por el arzobispo de Madrid, cardenal Carlos Osoro @cardenalosoro #EspecialCampeonesTM#HalaMadrid

Sigue las celebraciones en directo aquí: 📡 https://t.co/Cnw7Ol5lQX pic.twitter.com/G6WuC6G139

— Telemadrid (@telemadrid) May 29, 2022

In this case, it is the fourteenth Champions League Trophy that the Madrid team obtains.

During the visit, Cardinal Osoro, greeted the players "with affection and joy", saying that "it is stimulating to share a path with others, to support each other in the search for success".

As reported by the Archdiocese of Madrid, the Cardinal also thanked them for taking the name of the Spanish capital to as many part of the World, as Saint Isidore the Farmer did, "a simple man with presence on all continents", and to whom a Holy Year is being dedicated.

For his part, during the brief ceremony, the director of Institutional Relations of Real Madrid, former soccer player Emilio Butragueño, read some petitions, one of which asked that those present experience "the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary."