The Spanish provided opportunity for a second trophy to Real Madrid. Real Valladolid was the other finalist, quite inferior to mighty Madrilenos, and although Valladolid put a brave fight, they still lost 0-1.
It would have been the underdog to surprise Real Madrid, but the difference of class worked against them. Still, it was not bad to play at the final – and because of that, to get a spot in the Cup Winners Cup. Standing from left: Albesa, Gonzalo, Peña, Enrique Moreno, Ravnic. Crouching: Minguella, Patri, Branko Miljus, Lemos, Damián, Janko Jankovic.
Well, perhaps the foreigners spell out the difference between Valladolid and Madrid: good Yugoslavs, Ravnic, Miljus, and Yankovic, but even back home they were not first raters… certainly not equal to Butrageno, Sanchez, Schuster…
This was perhaps the finest season of Real Madrid in the 1980s – a double. 24th title, 16th Cup, but doubles were another matter in their record book: so far, they won only 3 doubles. This was their 4th – a complete triumph of wonderful team.
Real Madrid at its finest – standing from left: Buyo , Michel , Schuster , Esteban , Gallego , Tendillo.
First row: Butragueño , Solana , Hugo Sanchez, Sanchís, Martin Vazquez.
Dominating at home in Spain, highly entertaining, restoring some of the faded international glory of the club, but still demanding fans and observers considered the squad inferior to the greats of the 1950s and early 1960s – unfortunately, the measure of success was collecting the European Champions Cup and and so far this vintage failed to do so. Such expectations are very hard to fulfill.
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