Real: ‘We have to leave our souls’

Real Madrid may have been waiting for this moment for 12 years, but it didn’t take them quite that long to get impatient about it. That happened in a matter of minutes.

At the Glasgow Hilton banquet immediately after their last victory in 2002, when they beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 to win the club’s ninth Champions League, Florentino Perez began a speech.

“We have won the novena and next year we will go for the decima, and then the undecima and the duodecima.”