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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1960.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

Real Madrid-unforgettable -magnificent-bewildering!

It was the thrill of a lifetime to be able to see the Euro- pean Cup Final when it was played in Glasgow last week.

play their best every time they Tu onto the field.

They have of course received Itch redatti The their. Endeavours. ở, but they hays - Become rich Homestly, by playing football bötter than anyone else in the world to-

By 1. M. MacTAVISH

(Writing From Scotland)

day. They это In fact the world simply cannot ignore. There are no frills and no dedicated to their chosen pro-I've seen my share of football socrets in their performance and fession and their glorious sue but never before have I seen their success is merely the Dess should be a resounding

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lesson to those dillesand anything like the display turn-dividend for bringing together folks who believe that there is by these fabulous men eleven men who have brought the basic football skills to a from Spain. football future in shady

perfection...i near under-the-counter practices in a casual attitude... or by a take-put rather than pot-in approach to the

*

A sign post

In beating Eintracht by seven goals to three Real Madrid wrote a new chapter in football his populatory. They wrote it with a pur- pot delicacy that the rest of

It has been decided unanimously by Britain's football

tion that this was the greatest game of soccer ever played in the United Kingdom.

As the crowd on the spot numbered 130,000 and the whole 90 minutes was seen on television in Britain and in 12 European countries it almost certainly attracted the biggest simultaneous audience in the whole history of the game.

Never surely have there been such ready acclamations as were accorded to Real Madrid who won the cup for the fifth con- secutive time. The players from Spain were given a spontaneous. tumultuous and sustained round of cheers and applause the like of which even the famous Hampton Stadium has never

heard before.

It was the greatest scene I have ever witnessed in foot- ball.

and even

ex-

perienced time-wise veterans like Di Stefano and Puskas said afterwards that they had

never seen or heard anything

Ing them in every aspect of the football arta,

the picture. Whenever Puskas got the ball the Germans' defen- The Germans were still a sive plan sent two and three and team. They played strong players to check him at all costs, t imaginative soccer. There was The Hungarian's brilliant ball power and class in their wing-control made this a difficult task; half positions, speed and strength and as a result cracks began to on the wings, guile in the in- appear in Eintracht's rear lines. side-forward positions and, in the early stages particularly, stability in their defence.

un-

Then came the turning point! of the game. Puskas made un- other of his rapierlike raids. This time he swept the ball Switched tactics away to the right and raced for though the far post as though to collect They started off as they were going to prove that all the return cross. It never came, the stories about Real Madrid Instead a short pass was clipped were greatly exaggerated; they into the middle and there was

Di Stefano completely played fast frilless football and marked - ready to drive the like it in their long careers. when they took the lead with To appreciate the full signi- magnificent goal after 20 minutes ball into the net. It was brilliant- ficance of this astonishing re- the great soccer multitude only planned stuff. ception

the scintillating the spot and around their tele- sels across Europe sat Spanish side one has to under- vision

1 back in anticipation of a major stand the circumstances existing in Glasgow in the days and upset.

The deficit of a goal was, weeks prior to the game being)

however, the challenge Real played.

Madrid needed to drive them to the

greatest moments. The Spanish side switched its tactics almost as distinctly as a car driver changes gear,

of

Greatest club side

Puskas again

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Once on equal terms the Real Madrid machine started to run with all its well oiled smooth- ness. Within minutes Puskas again the was at it again Germans were forced to watch the wrong man... and again On the one hand we had Real

unmarked Di Stefano was right Madrid acclaimed and justly

Suddenly Puskas who had on the spot to crash the ball 50-the greatest club side the been strangely quiet started to home. world has ever known and force his way into the picture. the other we had the brilliant All the tricks and football frolics German team Eintracht from that have made him

a world Frankfurt who had already won; the appreciation of the Glasgow gure started to appear with football public by their decisive ever increasing regularity. For defeat of Glasgow Rangers in some peculiar reason I could not the semi-final of the competition quite see what it was all leading up to for time and again when it While ready to give Real seemed he had developed one Madrid full credit for their past particular attack Puskas would successes there was

a strong suddenly switch his effort to a ching in Scotland that the Ger- different sector of the German mans would upset the Spanish defence. union cart There was good ground for such best for The Scols had already scen, the. Lays from Frankfurt play a type of football which made the Maus Glasgow Rangers look like third-raters.

They believed that no team could brush aside the strong challenging soccer which the Germans played and the fact that the Eintracht side eventuzily had 10 return home without the cap simply meant that they had met probably the only club side in the world capable of outclass-

Dear Mruning and Dadkey.

School is going fine but summer hols are not for way and I am looking forward to my hit home to Hong Kong.

"Please please let me fly Sarisair again' They were as wonderful to me last time.. the CUISINE (not just food) war wonderful. the sevince was wonderful.... Th everything was. wonderful. They treated me life a

princess all the

way home,

Be sure and boot me

Swissar Lots of love From Your Fenpered prindze.

Yeddi's

(KK)

Brilliant plot

The true brilliance of Real Madrid was now exposed for all soccer oyes to see. The Bocracy and intelligence of their football was almost beyond description and the cheers of the great crowd en- couraged them to what their own official, described as the greatest game they have ever played.

Just before the interval we got another example of their super- lative understanding. Puskas - it is impossible to tell any part I offer no excuse for my of the story without bringing failure to pre-read the Puskas him into it made another plan for one of Scotland's strong attack. He marshalled and best known sportswriters controlled a delightful bout of turned to me at this stage of interpassing and then suddenly the game and said "Puskas is dashed for goat The Germans, deliberately pulling our remembering his previous decoy legs... and those of the acts for Di Stefano, closed in to Germans too. I wish I could cover the Beet-tooted centre- fathom what he up to to.": forward....the space was created the whole and, with Di Stefano closely Then suddenly brilliant plot became apparent, covered, Puskas almost casually crashed a magnificent left foot shot into the Eintracht net.

As Puskas came more and more into the game so did Di Stefano apparently drop out of

Champagne soccer

At that stage the crowd sensed that the game was over as a serious contest. Real Madrid were now at their greatest and no team in the world can live with them in that form. The soup

were meat couBIES

fans sat bank to enjoy their soccer sweet....in Spanish style.

and

over and the

Never have football followers been treated to such a treat.... such a feast....such a banquet of ball control. Looking through the British press it seems to me that every superlative and every glowing adjective has been used to describe what followed.

To me it was simply bewilder- ing. It was champagne soccer served in golden goblets by eleven players who were absolute masters of their trade. If I never see another game I am satisfied that at last I have seen football it should be played....by

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Writing, in the ''Sunday Mall' : he says "Im - happy. happy that a dream has 'ószám true. A dream that one day. I'd be there when a Scottish football, crowd vàw the Hahi and cheered the only. Kind of Tootball that has a futuro, ku the Real Madria Kind, Must see

"I don't know which made me happier

the way Real Madrid

British football officials, pitch of players, fans....and hardened whose mistakes have been re-played or the way the Hampden sportswriters have never stopped duced to an absolute minimum fans applauded it. Elther way it It was unforgettable indeed talking and writing about whose understanding has was unforgettable". since the game was played. been developed to an uncanny Everyone seems to be agreed degree and whose desire to and I can only suggest that everyone who loves a top class game of football—whatever his that the performance by Real ENTERTAIN is always Madrid is a sign post to the

hationality should make- solema vow to try and wes this 33 future. Their approach is modern as this morning's dawn

Real Madrid side in action, fist yel as old-fashioned and

once, in his lifetime. It would be simple as kicking a ball correct

a niting reward for years of y must be.

dominant.

The 1960 European Cup Firl was played in Scotland and feel that it would be right to finish this article with a quote

tion from the pen of one of the

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