• Tickets: No one wants to go to the Spanish Super Cup: clubs have only sold 9% of their tickets

Any football fan knows which team has more European Cups, more Leagues or more King Cups. If you're wondering who has won the most Super Cups in Spain -the Barcelona-, instead ... Historically, the tournament they play as of tomorrow Barça, Valencia, Madrid and Atlético has been more of a snack than a main course, a cockade without much prestige that has been giving tumbos in terms of its format and its location in the calendar, as also happens this season. It happens, however, that the Super Cup has been the scene of some of the most iconic moments in the history of Spanish football, especially the classics. From the stomping of Stoichkov to Urizar Azpitarte to the finger of Mourinho in the eye of Tito Vilanova, essential scenes of the folklore of our football.

Stoichkov Pisotón

After the first of the five consecutive Leagues of Barça de Cruyff, in 1990 the Barca and Real Madrid met in one of the most remembered Super Cups ever. It was, in part, because in the first leg Stoichkov lost the papers and stomped on the referee of the match, Urizar Azpitarte, which of course expelled him. The funny thing about this story is that now they are both great friends. The referee, in fact, was invited by the footballer to attend a tribute that was given a year ago in Sofia by the Bulgarian authorities.

Aragon's goal

We continue in 1990. Madrid won in the first leg by 0-1 after playing 50 minutes with 10. In the return at the Bernabéu, Goikoetxea matched the score before the Di Stefano team unleashed a perfect storm. There were four goals, the last of them a marvel of Santi Aragón, perhaps the best goal in the history of this tournament. It was a 42-meter shot that caught Zubizarreta ahead. Aragon, then an almost unknown young man, celebrated it with what was then his roommate, Julen Lopetegui.

Luis Enrique's lap of honor

It was 1993 and Madrid faced the Super Cup with the recent injury of the two Leagues of Tenerife and a budding season that didn't look very good - it didn't. In full swing of the Dream Team, the white team was at least pleased to win the Super Cup at the Camp Nou and celebrate it with a lap of honor in the Barça field led by Míchel ... and Luis Enrique. They had to stop due to the rain of objects by the public. But the celebration continued, although with a different protagonist ...

Mendoza boot

Back in Madrid, the white expedition met a handful of radicals waiting for him in Barajas. The then white president, Ramón Mendoza, hugged them and joined their chants, having heard José Luis Núñez complain about the "provocation" of the failed return of honor. The man came up first, with the harmless "What a boat Mendoza!" And then with the controversial and remembered "It is Polish who does not boat!".

Ronaldo debut in Spain

Barcelona surprised in 1996 making the most expensive transfer in the history of football, 2.5 billion pesetas by a 19-year-old Brazilian striker who came from the PSV. The average fan had no idea who that Ronaldo was or, of course, if he deserved such an investment. In his debut, in the first leg of the Super Cup against Atlético (5-2), he already made it clear what would come next. Two goals and title on track at an Olympic Stadium in Montjuïc with less audience than expected. The rest is history.

Roberto Carlos Mecherazo

A year later, with Ronaldo in Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid, they played their fourth Super Cup. The one of 1997 finished like the three previous ones, with triumph in target. What will happen to history, however, is the mecharazo Roberto Carlos received in the first leg in the Camp Nou. The Brazilian could continue the game and Barça was sanctioned with 500,000 pesetas, about 3,000 euros to change.

Mourinho's finger

To the fifth was the charm for Barça. In 2011 he finally managed to defeat Madrid in the Super Cup thanks to Messi's goal at the Camp Nou that broke the tie to four overall. After that goal, an entry from Marcelo to Cesc unleashed a tangana in the bench area that ended with Mourinho, white coach, putting his finger in the eye of Tito Vilanova, then second in Guardiola. "About Pito, or whatever his name is, I have nothing to hide, the cameras have seen everything," said the Portuguese coach, who days later apologized "only to Real Madrid."

Athletic Triumph

In 2015, the Basque team was dragging a 31-year drought without winning a title and had lost three finals in five years, all three against Barcelona. The Super Cup also came in the middle of a calendar overloaded by the previous Europa League. On the other hand, Athletic achieved an unexpected 4-0 in the first leg in San Mamés against Barça with an Aduriz triplet. La Gabarra was about to cross the Nervión estuary, but the club's director gave up on understanding that the tournament was of lesser importance.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Real Madrid
  • Valencia
  • Julen Lopetegui
  • Luis Enrique
  • football
  • Spain Supercup

LaLiga Santander 2019 - 2020Hazard, discarded for the Super Cup

LaLiga Santander 2019 - 2020January squeezes Real Madrid: Getafe, Supercup, Copa, Sevilla, derby ..

LaLiga Santander 2019 - 2020 No one wants to go to the Spanish Super Cup: clubs have only sold 9% of their tickets