The Spain squad arrived back in Madrid on Monday afternoon with the Euro 2024 trophy under Alvaro Morata‘s arm, as they then paraded it around the Spanish captital. It was a raucous atmosphere, with thousands of fans packing out the Cibeles fountain long before the players arrived around 21:00 CEST.
The wait and the 30-degree hear did not discourage fans though, as they were whipped up into a frenzy, less than 24 hours after many of them would have gathered there after the game.
The fanzone opened up at 19:30 to see #Spain present the trophy yesterday, and it would be another couple of hours before the players would arrive.
This was the scene beforehand though😵pic.twitter.com/fN9DBbpUHZ
— Football España (@footballespana_) July 16, 2024
The squad first went ot the Royal Palace in order to greet King Felipe IV, the queen and princesses, thanking him for their support. They would then join Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at Moncloa, where he thanked the side for showing ‘the best of Spain’.
🤯 Carvajal absolutamente desatado en la celebración en Cibeles#EuroRTVEhttps://t.co/CMTUIGXtjL pic.twitter.com/KbyC9YhV10
— RTVE (@rtve) July 15, 2024
Once the players were finally at Cibeles, Morata took it upon himself to MC for the night, presenting all of his teammates one-by-one to the crowds. Morata introduced him as the ‘boar of Spain’, asked ‘where is Musiala?’ and welcomed ‘the best right-back in the world’ to the stage.
thank you morata for giving us future musiala edit material🤞 pic.twitter.com/l6HNhqcRvB
— em (@mvsiala) July 16, 2024
Before that, Morata had paid tribute to the previous generation of Spain players who won Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, including Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta and David Villa for ‘teaching them how to fight.’
He also paid homage to the fans, and Spain as a whole,
“We have the best food, the best holdiay spots, the best workers, the best farmers, delivery drivers, everything! We have to know that we are the BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD”
🎙️©️ Don ÁLVARO MORATA, el primero en coger el micrófono
🔝‼️ "Tenemos la mejor comida, los mejores sitios de vacaciones, los mejores trabajadores… Tenemos que saber que somos el MEJOR PAÍS DEL MUNDO"
🔴📻 EN DIRECTO con @YagodeVega: https://t.co/OioAyFEAT1 pic.twitter.com/h0nU08IWng
— Carrusel Deportivo (@carrusel) July 15, 2024
Meanwhile Lamine Yamal was congratulated not just for winning Young Player of the Tournament at Euro 2024, but also for passing his exams and making it into the senior years of high school. One of the images of the tournament has been Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal busting out moves together, and they gave the people what they wanted towards the end of the celebration.
"Lamine, Yamal, cada día te quiero más" 🎶👏
16 años, la ESO y una Eurocopa, se dice pronto🔝
Sale a escena el mejor jugador joven de la Eurocopa y un diamante en bruto, Lamine Yamal. 🌟 #EuroRTVEhttps://t.co/CMTUIGWVud pic.twitter.com/kfWlSOCeZ6
— RTVE (@rtve) July 15, 2024
In addition, Rodri Hernandez might have got himself into trouble after he got on the microphone to sing ‘Gibraltar is Spanish’, before Morata pointed out to him that he will be headed back to England to play for Manchester City in a matter of weeks.
🕺💃 El baile final de Lamine Yamal y Nico Williams para cerrar la fiesta de la Eurocopa pic.twitter.com/2yhrVDF4v3
— Mundo Deportivo (@mundodeportivo) July 15, 2024
Marc Cucurella probably offended less people with his rendition of the ‘paella song’, dedicated to the curly-haird left-back, albeit debuting a new hairstyle.
