The Spanish Team Handed the World Cup in Madrid
The captain Iker Casillas, lifted the World Cup to heaven in Madrid, barely stopped the plane traveling “red” opposite the old Flag of State of Madrid Barajas airport. The goalie, one of the architects of the victory Sunday at 1-0 on Holland and nicknamed San Iker, showed the trophy next to the technical Vicente Del Bosque to journalists and employees of Barajas airport after the landing of the flight that led to the world champions and Europe to return home.
“The Red” arrived in flight 2801 Iberia, landing at 1440 hours in Barajas with the flamboyant champions of the world of football, which have been received by several hundreds of workers from the airport and by the firefighters, who have done a circle of water on the plane as a sign of welcome. Nothing more reach the plane, the commander has leaned two flags of Spain through the window of the apparatus, which displays the slogan “proud of our selection. Champions”.
At the opening the door of the aircraft, has been Iker Casillas the first that has come to the steps with the Cup, together with the coach, Vicente Del Bosque, and the president of the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF), Angel Maria Villar. After raising the Cup and able to forest, which initially was reluctant to receive it, Boxes descended the steps of the aircraft with the trophy conquered, then lift on several occasions and followed by the rest of members of the “Red”. Then, the selection approached the area where they were the media, where posed for photos that inmortalizarán this time.
With flags and t-shirts of the spanish team, employees of AENA, of the airlines and the Security Forces of the State, among others, have endured under a strong sol the arrival of the footballers in the platform of Barajas, while chanted various slogans of celebration of victory and began blowing the vuvuzelas. Have joined the dozens of journalists, from first in the morning, expected in the old Flag of State from Barajas airport the arrival of the flight, which has been delayed more than three hours on the schedule.
The players have been received by two large posters of 42 meters with the slogan “Welcome to a country happier. Thanks!”, installed by a well-known brand of soft drinks. The airport also has approached the president of Iberia, Antonio Vazquez, a company with which he has traveled the selection, which has chosen for this plane “a crew of emergency”, with a commander Jose Antonio Revolt, with more than 17,560 flight hours, to drive this “flight historic”. The team starts as a long journey holiday in which they will be received by King Juan Carlos I, Iran to the Palace of the Moncloa, where he will do the same the president of the Government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and then procession through the streets of Madrid, where the expected a reception multitudinary.
According to forecasts, the players have moved in a bus to a hotel near the airport, where rest before moving to 5 p.m. to the Royal Palace, to be received by King Juan Carlos. An hour later, it will be the president of the Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to congratulate the champions in the Palace of the Moncloa, before that, in a bus discovered begin to browse the streets of Madrid. The circuit beginning about 7 p.m. in Moncloa and it is estimated that ends in the esplanade of the bridge of the King, the side of the Manzanares River, where it has installed a palco giant to receive the members of the “red” and where there will be a fiesta musical