Real Madrid had a sweet and bitter week. On the one hand, he failed to make up for the losses from the first match 1/4 of the Champions League final, lost to Arsenal 1: 2 and fell off the games. On the other hand, he won a very difficult league meeting at home with Athletik Bilbao 1: 0 (0: 0), scoring a goal only in the added time of the game. Carlo Ancelotti's players are still fighting for two trophies.
Real awarded. They won the largest in history
The first can get on April 26 – then in Seville they will play the final of the King Cup with FC Barcelona. They also fight for the national championship with the Catalans. For now, four points are lost to them. Both teams will play more league matches for a week. Barcelona will take Mallor on Tuesday, April 22. Real Madrid a day later will face away with Getfee.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Real won another trophy.
“Real Madrid can proudly look at Monday evening when he won the next trophy. The European champions were chosen the team of the year during the Laureus Awards 2025 ceremony in Madrid. These individual trophies are awarded to people or teams who have left their mark on sport last year, in all disciplines,” commented the Mercato portal.
Laureus awards have been awarded since 2000, and the first gala took place in Monaco. Since then, a footballer has become the athlete of the year twice. Lionel Messi reached for this distinction in 2020 (ex aequo with Lewis Hamilton, the driver of Formula 1) and in 2023. The sportsman of the year was chosen by Barcelona Aitana Bonmati.
In the “Return of the Year” category in 2003, Brazilian Ronaldo won, and 20 years later Christian Eriksen was awarded. People of the ball also won awards for the whole career. They were: Pele (2000), Johann Cruyff (2006), Franz Beckenbauer (2007), Zinedine Zidane (2011), Bobby Charlton (2012) and Arsene Wenger (2019).
The award for “Sports Spirit” can be boasted: FC Barcelona (2007), Johann Cruyff (2016) and Leicester City (2017). In the “exceptional achievement” category: Francesco Totti (2015) i Robert Lewandowski (2022).
Real Madrid's distinction is not the first case when the team of Laureus is the football team. Previously, Manchester United (2000), French team (2001), Brazilian (2003), Greek (2005) representation (2005), Italian representation (2007), Spanish representation (2011), FC Barcelona (2012), Bayern Munich (2014), German team (2015), Bayern Munich (2021), Italian representation (2022), Argentina representation (2023), representation of women's Spain (2024).
Real Madrid was not the only accent of this year's awards. Lamine Yamal from FC Barcelona triumphed in the “breakthrough” category. It was also recognized that the young winger was a sports discovery of the year. The same title a year earlier fell to Jude Bellingham.