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The day of the second leg, the Barcelona team were insulted and stones were thrown at their bus as soon as they left their hotel. Madrid complained about all the three goals that referee Fombona Fern\u00e1ndez had allowed for Barcelona, with the home supporters also whistling Madrid throughout, whom they accused of employing roughhouse tactics, and Fombona for allowing them to. Football continued during the Second World War, and on 13 June 1943, Madrid beat Barcelona 11\u20131 in the second leg of the Copa del General\u00edsimo semi-finals, the Spanish Cup having been renamed in honour of General Franco.note 2 Real Madrid led the first league season until the last match, a loss to Athletic Bilbao, meant they finished runners-up to Barcelona.
\nIker Casillas comes second with 725 appearances, followed by Manuel Sanchis Jr., having played 710 times. In 1941, two years after Nationalist victory in the Civil War, the Francoist regime restored the crest’s “Real Corona”, or “Royal Crown”, while the mulberry stripe of Castile was retained as well. The first crest had a simple design consisting of a decorative interlacing of the three initials of the club, “MCF” for Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol, in dark blue on a white shirt.
\nIn 2013\u201314, Real and Atl\u00e9tico were finalists of the UEFA Champions League, the first final which hosted two clubs from the same city. A high point came in the 2002\u201303 season, when Real clinched the La Liga title after a 4\u20130 victory at the Vicente Calder\u00f3n. Real Madrid’s record against Atl\u00e9tico in more recent times has been favourable. There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between Real Madrid and Barcelona is known as “The Classic” (El Cl\u00e1sico). This decision was controversial with some of the Bernab\u00e9u faithful, however, as the lively atmosphere of games would suffer as a result. They are known for their extreme right-wing politics, akin to Barcelona’s hardcore supporters group Boixos Nois.<\/p>\n
The fastest goal in the history of the club (13 seconds) was scored by the Chilean Iv\u00e1n Zamorano on 3 September 1994 during a league match against Sevilla. Cristiano Ronaldo also holds the record for the most league goals scored in one season (48 in 2014\u201315), alongside being Real’s top goalscorer of all time in La Liga history with 311 goals. For the latter part of the 2019\u201320 season and throughout the 2020\u201321 season, the stadium hosted the first team’s home games due to a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic-triggered restrictions and an extensive renovation of the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. The venue is now part of the Ciudad Real Madrid, the club’s training facility located outside Madrid, in Valdebebas. The inaugural match was played between Real Madrid and Reims, a rematch of the 1956 European Cup final.<\/p>\n
The process culminated in both players extending mutual apologies to each other. Across his two spells as a manager, he won 15 titles, making him the most successful manager in the club’s history. In the summer of 2019, Madrid signed Eden Hazard, Luka Jovi\u0107, \u00c9der Milit\u00e3o, Ferland Mendy, Rodrygo, Reinier and other players for a total of more than \u20ac350 million. In reaching 101 goals in 92 games, Ronaldo surpassed Real Madrid legend Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s, who scored 100 goals in 105 matches.<\/p>\n