The
Real Madrid
plane
stopped in
Barajas
for four hours, the
Athletic one
flying over the airport without being able to find a landing strip and deciding to turn around
Bilbao
.
And on the highway, on the A-1 towards
Miranda de Ebro
, the
Rayo Vallecano
footballers
getting off the bus and pushing a car that had been stuck in the snow on a frozen highway.
These three images summarize the absolute chaos in which Spanish football was involved on Friday afternoon, a consequence of the storm
Filomena
and the bad planning of those responsible, as the clubs complain.
While the Community of Madrid, in contact with the Football Federation, decided to
suspend all non-professional football
planned for this weekend, the highest categories of Spanish football followed the planned script: trips, trips and more trips without ceasing despite that the provinces of origin or destination were on alert.
Real Madrid, at the request of LaLiga, approved to advance its flight to
Pamplona
to try to avoid the toughest hours of the storm in the capital, scheduled for Saturday morning.
The team led by
Zinedine Zidane
always
travels
to their league commitments on the same day of the match, but this time they made an exception and accepted the guidelines of the main body.
He went to Barajas without even having completed the training session on Friday afternoon, already affected by
a snowfall that covered Madrid in white from noon
, and assumed that he would not be able to step on the grass again until Saturday night at El Sadar .
We don't know what will happen.
It will be a different match
and we are all preparing it, whatever it may be, ”the French coach warned at a press conference.
Anger and disbelief in Madrid
The Madrid team's flight was scheduled for
seven in the afternoon
, but at that time Barajas was already completely white.
Runway operators worked piecemeal to try to clean the asphalt so that commercial and private planes could leave and arrive, but there was no way and
the airport had to close for several hours
.
"Runway and taxiway cleaning work is being carried out, but the snow covers everything almost immediately," they explained.
The images that came from the area did not guess any fairly close solution, with the snow filling everything with white, but Madrid held on on the plane.
The
Athletic
, who at that time had already been thirty minutes circling in the sky of the Community of Madrid, chose to return to Bilbao not finding a clear track to land power.
Their meeting this Saturday against Atlético de Madrid (4:15 pm) is in great danger and the Basque club has already ensured that it
is in contact with LaLiga and Atlético to make a decision "as soon as possible
."
The Madrid expedition, meanwhile, decided to wait a few hours on the plane to squeeze the time until it was possible to leave.
In the merengue campus, they recognized that the best option, once inside the plane, was to
wait for the runway to be clear and fly
, because the idea of returning home, as the city was at that time, was almost worse.
After ten thirty at night and after almost four hours of waiting, Madrid's plane was the first to take off at the opening of the runways.
Filomena did not give in, but the operators managed to remove the snow and ice from the runways and ensure that no area of the plane could freeze.
The flight arrived in Pamplona at 11:12 p.m., four hours and twelve minutes after boarding.
In the white team, who saw how
the Federation suspended the match that the women's team had to play in San Sebastián
against Real, there is
enormous anger and "disbelief" with LaLiga
.
They consider that what happened was "
avoidable
" and that the Tebas entity had to have considered in advance the postponement of the matches that affected teams in alert zones.
In everyone's head, the year 2010 and that
Osasuna-Barcelona
that nobody wanted to repeat, with
Pep Guardiola's men
traveling by AVE and arriving twenty minutes before the start of the match after thinking that the game had been suspended due to the
chaos of the controllers aerial.
A little further away, on the road and taking advantage of the coverage that the plane sometimes does not give, the
Rayo footballers
used social networks to complain about a trip as surreal as it was dangerous from Madrid to Miranda de Ebro. 329 kilometers than the Vallecas expedition he had to travel by bus and at night, on a tarmac full of snow and ice.
«Do
you think that this is how you can travel by bus to Miranda
?
La Liga? ”Asked Mario Suárez, one of the heavyweights of the squad.
"For us it will not be but this is complicated," explained the club itself, which was already part of the immense line of cars stuck on the highway.
The match between Mirandés and Rayo is scheduled for this Saturday at four in the afternoon, but like many others it runs the risk of not being disputed.
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