Madrid, Spain 25th may 2020. Demolition and last days of the Vicente Calderón stadium. Alberto Sibaja Ramírez/Alamy Live News
Today, 1,076 days later, the old field is barely a concrete scrap, demolished rock by rock by the crane, for a year, only half the stand on the standing M-30, but in this world waiting for the return All of the competition are ephemeris, and the one of May 21 is engraved with fire in the rojiblanca memory: the date of Atlético's last official match at Calderón, against Athletic. At this time everything was over, the 51-year history of the old field, the Wanda Metropolitano was about to end on the other side of M-40 as an empty box to fill with memories, on the bank of the Manzanares life was ended. And he couldn't do it better.
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