There are already several people who noticed Ancelotti’s gesture at the Real Madrid party.
This Sunday, Madrid was painted white as thousands of Real Madrid fans took to the streets, gathered together with their team to celebrate victory at Wembley, the fifteenth edition of the Champions League. A party that began at noon at the Santiago Bernabeu, when the players and coaching staff boarded a bus marked “Champions‘, which passed through the center of the capital, stopping at the Almudena Cathedral, the Community of Madrid, the City Hall, the Cibeles Fountain and ending again at the white temple that Taylor had stepped on a few days ago Swift.
More than seven hours of celebration, during which several anecdotes took place, which, as usual, made the rounds on social networks. Similar to what happened in the Almudena Cathedral, where Real Madrid players came across a group of children dressed for their first communion, who did not hesitate to follow their idols to ask for photos and autographs.
Then, on a bus ride through the streets of Madrid, the team filmed a breathtaking moment that was also widely commented on social media: the moment Dani Carvajal, one of the heroes of Saturday night at Wembley, proposed to the League Cup champions his father, Mariano Carvajal , a National Police agent who accompanied his son to a real white mass bath.
Besides these anecdotes, Carlo Ancelotti was also the main character of his. A gesture that the audience saw live Real Madrid TV, but which went viral thanks to Italian sports journalist specializing in the transfer market, Fabrizio Romano, who posted a screenshot of the image on his social media account “X”: “Carlo Ancelotti and his cigar. 💨 Just did it.” again,” he writes.
Keep your promise
Carlo Ancelotti has made it a tradition to display a cigar and sunglasses to celebrate titles with Real Madrid. It was after winning the 2021-2022 League, when the Italian coach took an iconic photo with Militao, Alaba, Rodrigo and Vinicius Jr., which, in fact, he ordered to be published on his Instagram account.
The image spread like wildfire, although it was later revealed that the image was created as a result of collaboration with influential person Italian Xabi Lame is known for his TikTok videos in which he makes fun of videos of overly complicated “tricks.”
In 2024, as with other celebrations over the course of two years, Ancelotti once again repeated the photograph (with a new guest: Eduardo Camavinga) which, before the last La Liga victory over Granada, he had promised to repeat as an image of the league title celebration. Photo montages of him smoking a cigar while celebrating soon after began spreading like wildfire on social media: “He’s the greatest of all time,” says one of X’s most celebrated publications.