The reaction of Villarreal fans when Riquelme confirmed his presence in the club’s centenary game

Villarreal began its celebrations this week for 100 years since its founding and did so with a music party at the stadium Ceramics attended by thousands of yellow supporters. Before the start of the festivities in which artists linked to music and the Spanish club took part, historic moments of the team and messages from the former glories of the institution were broadcast on the giant screens.

One of those who were virtually present was Juan Román Riquelme, idol of the Yellow Submarine so much so that when his voice was heard on the loudspeakers, the applause drowned out his words and the shouts of applause didn’t stop. didn’t wait. In the video broadcast, the former Argentine footballer confirms his participation in the duel of legends which will take place on March 25.

“I want to congratulate our club for 100 years, thank you for the invitation on March 25. It will be a great honor for me to return to El Madrigal, today called the Ceramics Stadium. I send a very, very big kiss to all the fans, we miss them. See you soon, bye bye”, was the message of the former team that shone with the yellow jersey with the blue 8 on the back and recorded brush strokes in the retinas of all Groguets fans. During his time with the team he won the Intertoto Cup in 2004 and was close to savoring the honey of the 2005/06 Champions League success when he was knocked out in the semi-finals by English Arsenal on evening of the penalty which he missed. he would have missed. led the series in overtime.

The “Party of Legends” will feature iconic actors such as Marcos Senna, Bruno Soriano and Adriano Garcia, who were those who were part of the presentation of the match to be held at the Ceramics stadium. Other Argentinians like Rodolfo Arruabarrena (7th player with the most appearances in the history of the institution), Gonzalo Rodriguez (he has already confirmed his presence on social networks) and Juan Pablo Sorin they would go to the rendezvous. Also Uruguayan Diego Forlan (third top scorer of all time in the yellow submarine), who at the end of 2019 invited Riquelme to his tribute match in Montevideo.

This Friday the party is exclusively musical “with socio-cultural winks, through different theatrical, musical and audiovisual components”, according to the Villarreal site on its official website. “The choir of Sant Jaume will sing the official anthem and Nacho Cano together with hundreds of musicians from the province will give life to the centenary anthem. All this with the special participation of the prestigious theater group of Vila-real, ‘Xarxa Teatre’, and the presence of the first players of the team”.

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