Atletico Madrid captain Cookie called one of his most famous fans before his match yesterday, Saturday, against his guest Real Valladolid. His stadium, to give the team good luck; This is what happened.
Since 1996, Margarita Luengo, 73, has placed a bouquet of flowers at one corner of the stadium before every match for the team at his stadium, until he is lucky.
However, she was unable to go to the stadium yesterday, Saturday, in light of playing matches without an audience for fear of the spread of the Coruna virus.
But Cookie kept this tradition going, and spoke to Luingo via video technology before his team's match in the League, and put a bouquet of flowers in the corner that she requested at the Wanda Metropolitan Stadium.
In the video, which the club posted on its official website, midfielder Koki said to the fans, "I will put the package here and hope that it brings us luck, we win, and we score from a corner kick."
Victoria trabajada y otros ➕3️⃣ Se lo dije a Margarita antes del partido y su histórico ramo de flores nos trajo suerte ¡egu Seguimos! # AúpaAtleti #VolverEsGanar pic.twitter.com/ed4epKdqNb
- Koke Resurrección (@ Koke6) June 20, 2020
Koki's wishes were fulfilled when he carried out a corner kick from his teammate Vettolo, who was the only goal of the match in the 81st minute, but thanks to Atletico he won the victory, which advanced to third place.
Luingo put the first bouquet of flowers on the previous team's stadium before his match against Athletic Bilbao in 1996, with the aim of expressing her admiration for the skills and abilities of Serbian midfielder Milenko Pantic in the implementation of fixed kicks.
In a radio interview in 2017, Linguo remembered this saying, "I put four flowers for him at the corner of science, and when people asked me why I told them that they represent the four goals that we will achieve."
Indeed, Atlético won the game 4-1 after Pantic scored one goal and scored two goals, and Luingo maintained this tradition even after Pantic left the club and Atlético moved to his new stadium in 2017, although it resides 150 km from its favorite club stadium.