In life there is always a before and after for everything. Also for Real Madrid to abandon their white and spotless clothing, with those white socks, pants and T-shirt with no decoration other than the shield at the level of the heart. For decades and decades this was the case (from the year 1955), until just on May 27, the year 1981, the club decided to open the door to the future by agreeing to play the final of the European Cup with the three stripes of Adidas.
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The team trained by Vujadin Boskov entered the final of the Parc des Princes in Paris, which faced the almighty Liverpool. Adidas took the opportunity to reach an agreement with Luis de Carlos, president of the entity after passing away three years before Santiago Bernabéu, and Madrid agreed to play with a white long-sleeved shirt that had the three famous bands Adidas on both arms, as well as the German brand logo on the chest on the right, opposite the shield. However, the brand’s logo was covered with sticking plaster as the presence of advertising elements on the elastic bands is prohibited by UEFA.
The shirt that Madrid wore in the 1981 European Cup final.
The truth is that he was not very lucky, Given the the whites, who had not played a single European Cup final since 1966, lost to the ante reds ’1-0, with that lonely and damn goal by Alan Kennedy just eight minutes from the end of the game. A final marked by the physical problems of Stielike and Cunningham and the losses in the rear of Pirri and Benito. Camacho had a clear opportunity before when he was alone against Ray Clemence, but his Vaseline went high. Curiously, Madrid has since played seven Champions League finals, winning all seven without failure (against Juventus, twice, Atlético de Madrid, twice, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen and precisely Liverpool).
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