Traitor! Atlético Madrid fans scrape Courtois’ legend badge from stadium

Thibaut Courtois won the Champions League with Real Madrid at the weekend and enjoyed the celebrations. He finally swallowed the bitterness of 2014, when he lost the trophy in the last minute for Atlético Madrid. And the Colchoneros can’t stomach that.

The Belgian goalkeeper donned the jersey of the Rojiblancos from 2011-2014, winning the league title in his last season and taking the team to the Champions League final. The world was watching the city derby back then, with Real Madrid on the other side.

The Colchoneros took the lead, which they defended with honest defensive play throughout the match. But at 92:48, Sergio Ramos headed in a corner kick to send the game into extra time. There, Real Madrid destroyed the mentally challenged Atleti and won 4: 1.

Courtois transferred to Real Madrid in 2018 after four years at Chelsea, but he still carried this moment with him. “They made fun of me for the first 2-3 years. Every time we played the Champions League, Real Madrid TV showed Ramos’ goal from Lisbon and they were like.

But now he has fixed his taste. And if anyone really deserved the trophy, it was him, as Courtois literally destroyed Liverpool’s strikers with his saves and shocked the world with his quality. “It didn’t work out in 2014, but now I’m on the right side of history,” he said in a press conference before the game.

This made Atlético fans, even those at the top, incredibly angry. The mayor of Madrid, José Luiz Martínez Almeida, is a big Atlético fan and when he had to welcome the Real players to City Hall after winning the Champions League, he took a swipe at Courtois.

“Thiba, I would just like to tell you that we are on the right side of history, we who cried with you in Lisbon,” Almeida said in his speech.

The torn pancake

But the Belgian goalkeeper wore the plaque of a legend outside the stadium for his three seasons in the Rojiblancos jersey and the title he won. And the fans didn’t like that at all.

“Fans want to remove Courtois’ badge from Wanda? If you want it removed, come with a shovel and dig it up,” Atlético Madrid president Enrique Cerezo urged the Colchoneros.

It didn’t take long for that to happen. Courtois is no longer really connected to Atlético Madrid.

Source: Twitter, Atlético Madrid