Only four clubs were crowned eight or several times to the master of Spain. Real Madrid and Barcelona are the dominant couple, but Atletico Madrid has broken this duopoles twice lately, while the Athletic Club was more successful than any other side of the country.
This season they only separate six points when the top four in La Ligas Development title races, with Atletico and Athletic competing at Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Saturday evening.
Athletic’s chances of claiming a shock since 1984 are slim, but the victory in the capital would at least keep them in the mix and qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 11 years. A victory in the other direction for Atletico would remove the Bilbao team from the title race and move a three-way fight towards the enema.
There is an enormous amount at stake. However, this is not just a story about two clubs that are enclosed in competition rivality this season. Their history is fundamentally connected and extends well over a century.
Have you ever wondered why these two clubs have similar names and colors? There is a reason.
Bilbao was a first -class place for one of the oldest football clubs in Spain in 1898. The game arrived in the latter part of the 19th century from Great Britain, typically the domain of English or Scottish immigrants or local students who returned home, and in harbor cities in the north, in the west and in south, such as Bilbao, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo, Vigoo. In fact, the latter offers Spain’s oldest official football club – Recreativo de Huelva, once from La Liga – founded in 1889.
Juan Astorquia had studied in Manchester and when he returned home one of seven founding members of the Athletic Club – the associated name an allusion to the original English influence, which remains almost 130 years later. It was only briefly “Atletico” under the oppressive Franco regime.
Football grew in the infancy, as people who knew and loved the game, to other places with them. When three students from Bilbao, who lived in Madrid and just won the Copa del Rey from 1903 in the capital with the witness of Athletic Club, decided only weeks earlier to create their own club that inspired their hometown, the Athletic Club Madrid was born.
Today we obviously know the team as Atletico Madrid. It changed only 37 years later by Sportic when the general of dictator Franco in 1940 banned the foreign language in club names. But where the Athletic Club returned to its origin in 1975, the regime stuck in 1975.
In essence, Atletico began as Madrid branch of the Athletic Club. Although the teams are tie apart when Spanish football was formalized more in the 1920s, their famous colors will always be a symbol for this common story.
The original colors of the Athletic Club and then from Atletico were blue and white, with Juan Moser of Bilbao embedded in 1902. Seven years later, athletic was looking for replacement shirts of replacement blue and white shirts, in the hope that the player and board member Juan Elorduy in Style Englush Club-Blackburn roes on a 1909 trip on a 1909 trip on a 1909 trip in a 1909 trip in a 1909 trip in one 1909 trip in one 1909 trip in the Style of Leading Enghy Club rovers-Raduy trips was played in 1909 trib.
Elorduy was not successful in the procurement of the kits that had described his letter capitalization. When he arrived in Southampton, he was ready to return to a ferry to Bilbao, and met him that the local football club shirts – red -weiß strip – born that corresponded to the colors on the flag of his hometown.
Before he sailed home, Elorduy managed to buy 50 red and white shirts, half of which was sent to the sister club in Madrid after landing in Spain. But one last thing. At that time, Athletic opted for new black shorts, while Atletico had the same blue that they had previously worn, kept what explains the subtle difference in their respective stripes, which still exists today.