Bilbao It is a party this Thursday, the day on which the Athletic Club It is played to get into European semifinals 13 years later. To do this, you will have to eliminate the Glasgow Rangers after 0-0 of the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Europa League in Scotlanda historical appointment for which the entire Basque city has joined the streets of people in order to support the team of Ernesto Valverde.
Thousands of fans gathered at the exit of the Athletic Concentration Hotel, where the players after 7:00 p.m. Saint Mamésthey were totally amazed at a spectacular environment. They had no choice but to applaud spell, filling with morality to beat the Scots.
An apotheosic moment of which the soccer players of the rojiblanca squad were part of the thousands of fans who were at the doors of the hotel Carlton Although the security device had changed without warning. The square Moyua It was filled with songs and flares that lit when Iñaki Williams He started the list of dumbfounded players with what that great atmosphere.
Luckily, there were no incidents between the Basque and the Scottish fans, something for which he veiled from the City hall of Bilbao after what happened in the previous meeting of Europa League against the Rome. Recall that this season the final of the second European competition will be held in San Mamés, which is why Athletic bets everything to achieve the fight for the title at home.
Bilbao trusts the responsibility of fans
The mayor of the city, Juan Mari Aburto, appealed to the responsibility of the people before the appointment: «It depends on each of us and of us what is the attitude with which we go to the football party, with which we are on the street. I would like to see today in the streets of Scots, Athletic’s gangs, enjoying, taking something together, and that would be the best of the examples we can move to Europe and the world ».
«It has to be a day to enjoy, without any doubt, it has to be a night to enjoy. Hopefully the result also makes us enjoy tonight and has to be a day where we are able to show that sport unites, that hobbies know how to live and we have to take away from our heads that there are people who come to look for other types of situations that have to do with conflict and problems, ”he said.
Athletic goes for the Europa League
In that sense, he recalled that there is a device prepared with the Ertzaintza, with the Municipal Police and with Athletic himself, “very worked”, and has not been worried about the fact that there are 2,000 Scottish fans without entry who have arrived in Bilbao.
«It is not an inhabitual thing in these cases. We ourselves went to Seville many more than 2,000 without entry, and well, we were able to enjoy differently. Hopefully people who come without entry also come to enjoy otherwise, ”he said.
