![Demolition work on the Vicente Calderón began in March 2020 in four phases, starting on the interior of the stadium with the removal of seating, electrics and offices. Pictured here in March 2020, just before a state of emergency was declared in Spain due](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/W7LKNMIYS5I7BKDGAQVG6WTVBM.jpg?auth=94cd0ff6714260e041c067e49909b11dce3176f102dc7f64b47283d33bdbf240&width=360&height=270&smart=true)
![Demolition work on the Vicente Calderón began in March 2020 in four phases, starting on the interior of the stadium with the removal of seating, electrics and offices. Pictured here in March 2020, just before a state of emergency was declared in Spain due](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/W7LKNMIYS5I7BKDGAQVG6WTVBM.jpg?auth=94cd0ff6714260e041c067e49909b11dce3176f102dc7f64b47283d33bdbf240&width=360&height=270&smart=true)
Alfredo Relaño looks at the fall-out at Barcelona in the wake of Sunday's Spanish Super Cup final defeat to Athletic Club.
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ATLÉTICO MADRID
Torres is a football legend - Simeone
Making my way back home one evening, I drive through the tunnel on Madrid's M-30 ring road, a construction which, while it was being built, led me to curse the city's then-mayor...
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The first time I saw Marcos' father, Paco Llorente Gento, play he was dressed in red and white...
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Real Madrid still don't have a women's team, because the club's president, Florentino Pérez, doesn't want one, won't be budged on the issue...
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There’s a premiere on tonight
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![The Rolling Stones played the Calderón a total of six times. This image, from the 2003 concert.](https://img.asmedia.epimg.net/resizer/v2/GJEJUDRQGBO23D75R3ORZHIA4U.jpg?auth=41a92410ee4aaa12f47f8978d3d1a370e509b120ce6352ad237aa0d007741d33&width=360&height=270&smart=true)
Vicente Calderón
Stadium rock: the Vicente Calderón's most memorable gigs
Following the Copa del Rey final, and that Messi exhibition, the Vicente Calderón threw a definitive farewell party with a beautiful show of nostalgia, a final ...
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