Socio #1 Felix Perez Alvarez Passes Away
By: Corey | October 26th, 2009
This week has been tough on Real Madrid fans, but the news of the clubs oldest socio passing away seems a cruel blow. We have already experience a harsh defeat to Milan, a dull tie against Sporting, the reminder of Ruben de la Red’s collapse a year ago with the start of the Copa del Rey for first division teams, but this latest news just makes things worse. On Saturday in Gijon, Real players wore black armbands commemorating the death of Felix Perez Alvarez, the clubs oldest card holding socio, and appropriately dubbed ‘#1 fan’ has passed away at the ripe old age of 99 years old. May he rest in peace.
Felix was born in 1910 and became a socio of Real Madrid in 1923 when his father paid pesetas for his membership. He was a socio for 86 years of his life, with only his childhood separating him from the full 99 years of his time here on earth. In those 86 years he witnessed every major title Real won, including 31 league titles (all of them), 12 Copa del Reys (not all of them, we have 17), 8 Supercopas (all of them), 9 European Championship titles (all of them), 2 UEFA cups (all of them), 3 Intercontinental Cups (all of them) and 1 UEFA Supercup. There were several other titles he was able to witness Real triumph in, including the now defunct Copa de Liga (2) and although never having won it, he saw Real go the final of the Cup Winners Cup (Fairs Cups) on two occasions in the 80s.
Felix also holds the bronze, silver and gold jubilees of being a socio for 25, 50 and 75 years. A truely remarkable story of this great man, and one of the many reasons we Madrisitas follow this club. HALA MADRID and HALA Felix Perez Alvarez!
The article on his passing and statements from Emilio Butragueno are found here.
Of course with the passing of the #1 socio, we need a new super fan. That title goes to José Eulogio Aranguren Gutiérrez, who has been a socio for 85 years! Remarkable I know, and Jose has witnessed all of the same triumphs as Felix did. Both were good friends so Jose was saddened in being given this title in his friends death. But none the less, congratulations to Jose, now socio numero uno.
I apologize for the rather morbid string of posts lately, its a downer for sure, but we must remember that one of our own has past and we mourn the loss. Madridismo is a powerful thing, and we must never forget what men like Felix Perez Alvarez, or Jose Eulogio Aranguen for that matter, have done for the club and for the Madridista over so many years. HALA MADRID HALA MADRID HALA MADRID!!!
RIP
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Cule its applies to teams as well thank you very much , and what was stupid about the comment I made about you ? I just said that I knew that your glory hunting ass will show yourself , was I wrong ? Or that barcelona have stepped out of our shadow to get some air and will be going back , is that what you’re calling a stupid comment ?
Jeremy this isn’t about lacking faith in my team I’m just being realistic , in case you don’t know the meaning of the word in question you could look it up in the dictionary
Corey and bassam you’re right though from now on the glory hunters who never show their faces will be ignored
Its a shame though how these bandwagon fans who never show up when we win come here trolling every time we lose you’re giving real cules like kxevin , Hector and ramzi a bad namePosted from
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In my time as a Madridista, there have been a few downright humiliations, ranging from those towards the end of Galacticos I to the loss to Real Union de Irun last year. However, this is BY FAR the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. I’m a Madridista for life, no matter what, through good times and bad, but a result like this really makes me wonder why I have so much faith in the team.
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Congratulations to Alcoron, they played well and deserved to win this match.
And id like to thank the Real Madrid management for buying Raul Albiol from us at Valencia, we got rid of a less than average defender and got 15ME for him
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I cant even walk on the streets cos i support this shame ridden club…
Another disgrace …. and counting.Posted from
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To those people who are talking down the loss because it has only been CDR and this has no priority for Real Madrid etc, I recommend to read this:
\\http://goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2009/10/27/1587080/real-madrid-cannot-risk-youth-players-against-alcorconThen I’ve read on marca.com that the possible successor of Pellegrini is Jorge Valdano! Are you fucking serious, Pérez? It cannot get any worse imo…
And please, Andres, could you explain your slogan “Form is temporary, class is permanant”? First part of it is definitely true, but how do you define class? Madrid had class during the Di Stefan-Puskas era or also during the Zidane era. Remark that the class is associated to players, just as Cule said. If you’ve got a different opinion of class, let me know about it. But whatever you may understand as class, and I suppose that you are convinced Real Madrid have / had class, your comment implies that the class of the club is everlasting. So yesterday’s performance was also “class”? And as it is permanent, Real Madrid has always had class, even during their worst season (I don’t know which season has been the worst, but I can imagine there was a season in which RM did not finish top5)?
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I think everyone needs to calm down and not get overexcited. We expect Florentino Perez to be patient so why should we be any different.
Yes we are not playing well but we have to preach patience with this team. Everyone expects us to win every game by scores of 5-0 but in today’s football that is not possible.
I am also dissapointed in last night’s performance and the performance over the last couple of games but I firmly believe the players and coach are struggling to cope with the pressure. In a large part we the fans are to blame as we expect our team to be exactly like Barca of last season. That is why there is no teamwork – the players are trying too hard and thus do too much on their own and that is why we look disjointed.
It is only October and already there are rumours of Pelligrini being fired.
As our national coach Joel Santana said: “i was not hired to win friendly games, I was hired to do well at the World Cup!! ….this after we lost 8 out of 9 games!! LOL….and he promptly got fired
hopefully Pelligrini won’t say – I was not hired to win the Copa Del Rey – I was hired to win the Champions League!! LMAO
Just like my country (South Africa) fires coaches left, right and centre without the national team getting any better, I don’t believe firing Pelligrini is the answer.
We had Luxemburgo, Schuster, Ramos, Capello hell even Quiroz ..did we win the CL? No…each one looked like they were the right coach but we still failed in the CL.
I hope we don’t fire Pelligrini. All Madristas need to stand behind our team.
PS. Anyone comin gto my country to watch the World Cup?
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Well wats done is done, lets move on and support our team. Yest it was like Real Madrid team did not play at all, there were individuals who were running with the ball. Let give the team time and support our beloved club being true Madridistas.
In football there are always highs and lows, we had our high time in the beggining of the season now we are going through some low time. Let just keep focus on our team and be behind them disregarding wat other teams do.
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Ah, it is truly sad the way Real are currently playing. I actually watched the whole match and the team didn’t seem to have any will to be there, except maybe Van der Vaart, and later on Gago. The team seemed to be coming into this match thinking they would win easily without playing. I truly believe having the likes of Guti, Raul, Benzema out there is NOT the team to play in such a tournament. It would be much easier to motivate the Castilla players for such games. Somehow i feel that pressure from above is the cause for this, no coach feels secure getting Castilla players playing in such matches, i mean why the hell does Perez have to attend such matches?! Can’t he sit at home and let people do their work, instead of simply heaping more and more pressure on everyone.
I guess it seems like Pellegrini has a motivation problem, but im certainly not cool with the rumours and more fans here asking him to be fired so soon. Its the same problem we have every year, get someone out before they even have time to make the team play cohesively. Sure, all the trolls will say that the team should be playing better with the class of players they have, but its a team game after all. What the hell do those who’re asking Pellegrini to be fired think will happen. Suddenly they’ll become a team and start playing as one? That doesn’t happen, even under Juande it was just a bunch of players winning matches with their determination, there still wasnt much of a team. You need time and stability to build up a team. If we keep chopping and changing players and coaches, we will NEVER become a team.
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We haven’t been playing well ever. Look at one of our first preseason games and compare it with our last couple, there are hardly any signs of improvement. There is no positioning, no formation. None of the players seem to know how to play off the ball, get into open spaces. This loss was a total defeat, there was no luck and in fact, we were lucky not to concede more goals. Most of the goals scored came from the right flank (again!) and still nothing is done about it. I’m just annoyed that after 20 odd games we’re still making the same mistakes.
To be honest I don’t know much about Pellegrini in his time at Villareal. Everyone says he did great things, but it has not shown at all in his time with Real Madrid. More frustrating is that I don’t know if he’s oblivious to it or he doesn’t have the solution. Game against Milan, only 1 substitution. When he saw that we were getting killed down the right flank, he didn’t do anything but keep Drenthe in the entire match. He could have put Albiol at RB, introduced Garay and Metzelder as CBs and had Arbeloa shift to LB. That’s just an idea in my head, it might or it might not have worked, but at 3-0 down, there had to be some sort of change! Honestly, there are no excuses for this loss. We were totally and completely outplayed.Posted from
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Yes James, I have said for a while that apart from a 20 minute burst against Valladolid, we haven’t yet played well but at least the results went our way.
I see many errors that can only be down to Pellegrini, tactical, training, motivating. Rotating too much and experimenting with different formations.
Pick your best 11 go with it and let them gel and develop the individual roles, then rotate. 21 year old players don’t need resting at the start of the season.
That said, I don’t want to change manager, they will have to work together to turn this around. Not the CDR bur their form generally, a new manager would be too much instability.
I would like to think that this might give the galacticos a lesson in humility, sweating the shirt and that a team of 11 is far better that a collection of 11 egos, but it didn’t happen last year with Irun, so I doubt itPosted from
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@ vivek: I wasnt talking about taking over the club but to the presidency to act as they should when they promised transparency, i might be more happy or angry with they way things are done but at least when calderon WAS elected he TRIED to do what he said, because of the failure in bringing kaka and cr. Florentino should read again his electoral speech and see if it wasnt the biggest bullshit ever, much more worse than whatever happened in the (in) famous “asamblea” (things wich had happened always in this team full of hypocrites).
I say we madridistas fans should stay with pellegrini in the hopes of he making the correct decisions for the shake of the team. Now,if he gets fired he wont be capable of telling us all the bullshit he has withstand, but if it happens more into the season, he might be more angry than “ashamed” and he WILL charge against valsano, wich id love to see
)))If Valdano becomes our new coach ill start supporting atletico for the rest of the season until he gets fired.
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James,
Pellegrini DID do amazing things at Villareal. if i had to guess, the real problem comes from the fact that he invariably plays an unorthodox 4-2-2-2 (http://santapelota.blogspot.com/) that Madrid’s big squillion-euro stars don’t feel they need to adapt to. so instead of a fluid, balanced team (which via that formation is Pellegrini’s aim), you get a team of individuals all trying to play the way they have been or feel like playing. could the manager look to change his tactics? probably. but that’s not his job: it’s the job of the players to try to make his vision work, that’s why he’s the boss. Sacchi, Cruyff, and more pertinently Guardiola all have achieved success and respect as managers by implementing a vision upon a team; not by kowtowing to the whims and, let’s face it, laziness of their team’s players. Real Madrid will not succeed again until the club focuses on a vision for what the team should look like on a chalkboard, not in an advertisement.
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Y’all should just relax. BA makes some good points but more importantly, you have a new coach with a new system, and a boatload of new players who have yet to fully implement that system. The injury to Thong Boy hasn’t helped matters at all.
You’re only 3 points back in the Liga, still group favorites in Champions League and are a 5-0 at your home away from righting the ship in the Copa. Your club is in about as much crisis as ours, after a Valencia draw followed by a Rubin Kazan shock loss.
The calls for continuity are accurate, I think. But the burden of expectation is a bigger problem. In many ways, our being the “second” big Spanish club has made it easier for us to stay the course. We built through our farm system, and even have a coach from there. We also have a system.
I say give Pellegrini time. He had some beautiful, free-flowing sides at Villarreal, but those players bought into the system. The most valuable thing right now would be a vote of confidence for him, and support for his system from management.
But the biggest thing is time. We only had a striker to integrate into our system. You all have a passel of players (TB, Xabi Alonso, Kaka) who are all used to being The Man. Pellegrini must be given time to integrate those players into a working system. Right now, it’s just a bunch of guys running around. Give him time.
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Forgive those very stressed fans and forget the ridiCULE one, Corey.. All I want to know will you be doing a post-match review on this one? I don’t think you will but its always good to hear you have to say before and after a game..
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lol
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It is disgraceful that we lost this Copa del Rey match and how we lost it. It is beyond, beyond stressful but if you’ve been a long time fan of this club it is not unprecedented. We went how many years without a European Cup before 1998? Long time fans know this pain too well, the long wait for Los Blancos to conquer again. Just have patience and win or lose the Copa Del Rey, La Liga, or the Champions League, if it’s in your blood it’s there forever. Hala Madrid!
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the only positives from this are that vdv played and gago built some confidence, i was impressed by him despite…………….
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You took advantage of our economic situation and made a true valencianista kiss your logo..This is what happens,
I am really sorry for you guys we have been in worser situations…Here’s to hoping you start playing like you could but also please ask your management and fans to show more respect to other teams …
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Spalletti to Madrid ??
That will be enormous for you guys considering the work he did @ Roma for us.
He will bring style to your play.
I hope this happens as Spalletti is a amazing coach.
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I didnt get to see the match guys, so Cesar is working on post about it. I can not do midweek games anymore I apologize but I am to busy.
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I agree more time is needed and Guti needs to be fined big time. Spaletti is not the answer. Give Pellegrini more time. All is not lost. Early days still.
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Helge you’ve skipped a couple of eras before the zidanes like the redondo , seedorf , mijatovic etc… but that’s beside the point
Anyways even if we go by your logic don’t we have off form class players currently in our roster ? So yea , I can form is temporary but class is permanentSpaletti ? Uugh nooooooo! His roma might have played beautiful football but he has a lot of flaws even more so than manuel, . Pellegrini has to stay no matter what , changing coaches now will do us more harm than good we need stability as a few of you pointed out
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I think people, myself included, have been too quick to criticize pellegrini. He has proved himself at villareal at playing the football fans will love. I just want to know, if someone can clarify, how the transfers were done during his time there. I think there’s a lot behind the scenes that he has to deal with. He said from the training in Ireland that Sneijder was someone he wanted around, but that didn’t work out. There are rumors he wanted Negredo to stay. I think he’s being pushed by all sides: management, who want him to play stars; the captains, Raul and Guti, who are past their prime still wanting to play as starters. I read in AS about Pellegrini and Guti’s discussion during halftime. If it’s true, its pretty rude and I hope Pellegrini takes some action about this. If there’s one thing the English football have that’s better than Spain, is the coach’s power. Clearly Valdano and Perez were convinced by what he did at Villareal, so let’s give him the space and time he needs to do his work. Unfortunately, I don’t think that will ever happen. With 300m being spent this summer alone, all eyes will always be on Real Madrid and everyone will always be waiting on the sideline for a slip up.
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James you’re totally right
The biggest problem with real madrid is ( well its also a beautiful thing ) that the club is owned by the supporters ( the socios ) therefor and that translates to a lot of pressure on the board who as soon as the coach loses a couple of games here n there don’t hesitate to fire him because they’re trying to save their own asses english clubs are different in that the supporters can’t pressurize the club’s owner into makng decisions since they own the club as a wholePosted from
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Ok Andres, so you do associate the class to players, just as Cule said… and I have to agree, most players’s class is permanent, although there are some exceptions (thinking of Ronaldinho, he has not only lost shape, but also class).
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