Journey of becoming the richest club of the world..

It was under Florentino Pérez's presidency (2000–2006) that Real Madrid started harbouring its current ambition of becoming the world's richest professional football club. The club ceded part of its training grounds to the city of Madrid in 2001 and sold the rest to four corporations: Repsol YPF, Mutua Automovilística de Madrid, Sacyr Vallehermoso and OHL. The sale wiped out its debts, paving the way for the club to buy the world's most expensive players such as Zinédine Zidane, Luís Figo, Ronaldo and David Beckham. The city had rezoned the training grounds for development, a move which in turn increased their value, and then bought the site. Although there is no evidence thereto, the critics allege that the city overpaid for the property to help with the club's finance.

The sale of the training ground for office buildings cleared Real Madrid's debts of €270m and enabled the club to embark upon an unprecedented spending spree which brought big-name players to the club. Moreover, the money gained was spent on a state-of-the-art training complex on the city's outskirts. Real Madrid been a great source of entertainment for their fans across the world. People enjoy their matches a lot, now ticket4football.com provides the fans to get Real Madrid Tickets online at relatively cheaper price you can also buy Champions league tickets and champions league final tickets for the other teams of the League. Further more football tickets for other events are available at ticket4football.com like Premier League Tickets, Carling cup tickets and World cup football tickets. Along with that football tickets for world's most favourite teams are also available, like England World Cup Tickets, Brazil World Cup Tickets, Carling Cup final Tickets, Chelsea Tickets and many more. Just click and get the football tickets for your favourite teams or events without any headache and wastage of time.

El Derbi madrileño (Real Madrid and Atletico with contrasting identities)

El Derbi madrileño (English: Madrid Derby) is the name given to football matches between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, both of them from Madrid, Spain. Real Madrid and Atletico are clubs with contrasting identities and very different fates - a divide similar to Manchester's derby, but far more political. Historically, Real Madrid have long been seen as the establishment club. On the other side, Atletico was always characterized by a 'sentimiento de rebeldía' (a sense of rebellion) although, during the early Franco years, it was Atlético that was the preferred team of the regime, being associated with the military airforce, until the regime's preferences moved towards Real Madrid in the 1950s. Franco sought to make political capital out of Real Madrid's European Cup titles at a time when Spain was internationally isolated - "Real Madrid are the best embassy we ever had", said one minister. Bernabeu, Real Madrid's stadium, is majestic, alongside banks and businesses on the classy and aristocratic Castellana, while Calderon can be found beside the river; Real Madrid draw greater support because of its successes, while Atletico has a more working class fan base, which comes particularly from the south of the city.

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