League of Quito
In 2009 Liga de Quito visited the Santiago Bernabéu to face Real Madrid in a friendly match.
12/17/2023 – 12:59 p.m. EST
© GettyImagesLiga de Quito faced Real Madrid in 2009
On July 28, 2009, Ecuadorian football experienced another historic event when Liga de Quito went to the Santiago Bernabéu to visit Real Madrid, in a friendly match of the ‘Peace Cup’. The Ecuadorian team that had already won the Copa Libertadores made one of the most important clubs in the world feel like a visitor in its own stadium.
During his stay in Spain, Esteban Paz revealed that before the match with Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu, Florentino Pérez commented to a member of his board that they looked like “substitutes.” “Are we playing away? Florentino said to his vice president when we played at the Bernabéu“, commented the leader of the Quito League.
Spain is one of the countries where the largest number of Ecuadorian migrants are found, along with the United States. Hence, in that match, Real Madrid felt like visitors in their own stadium, because, gA large number of tricolors went to watch the Quito League and the team that was also debuting Cristiano Ronaldo in its eleven.
That match ended 4×2, where Cristiano Ronaldo also scored his first goal with the Real Madrid shirt. On the Ecuadorian side came a double from Enrique Vera, in a team that had legends like Úlises de la Cruz, Claudio Bieler, and also a very young Alexander Domínguez.
Liga de Quito also came to this match after their victory in the 2008 Copa Libertadores and the runner-up finish in the Club World Cup against Manchester United. The ‘Albo’ team was in the best moment in its history at an international level, A few months later he won the Recopa Sudamericana and the Copa Sudamericana.
Will Liga de Quito face a European giant again?
In less than a year, Liga de Quito was facing Manchester United and Real Madrid, two of the best teams in history. In recent years there has been talk of a new match against the ‘Red Devils’, however, It has not been finalized. Since that feat of the ‘Albos’ this type of confrontation has not been experienced again.
Liga de Quito brought the Copa Sudamericana to Spain
In this 2023, Liga de Quito once again added a new international title to its showcases, the 2023 Copa Sudamericana against Fortaleza. The board has decided to take the cup to various places in the world, where Ecuadorian migrant communities are found, such as in the United States and Spain.
You can close the year with a historic double
Likewise, Liga de Quito can make history in 2023 if it defeats Independiente del Valle in the LigaPro final. Never before had an Ecuadorian team won an international title and in the same year the national championship, the closest was the same IDV that won the Sudamericana in 2022 and also the Copa Ecuador.
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