This May 7, 2025, a quarter of one of the blacks in the 122 years of life of the Atlético de Madrid. It was the day that the descent to the Second Division of the rojiblanco team was consumed, made to win the League and to which extra -sports matters made him lose the category.
On May 7, 2000, Atlético appeared at Carlos Tartiere with the need to win to continue having permanence options. He Oviedotrained by Luis Aragonéshe put 2-0 with the goals of Losada and Paulo Bento of penalty. Cut distances Capdevila In 72 'and five minutes later Hasselbaink He achieved the Igualada. And in the 84th minute a penalty arrived in favor of the rojiblanco team that the Dutch, top scorer of the team that course, was in charge of launching. Estebanwhich would then sign for Atlético, stopped the launch. The mattresses went down to the Second Division, with the tears of the fans there still present in the memory.
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That season Atlético had one of the best templates in the league. Molina, Ayala, Gamarra, Capdevila, Aguilera, Bejbl, Solari, Valerón, Kiko, HassleBaff, Baraja… and after a bad start of the course with Claudio Rainieri On the bench, he managed to overcome the flight. Won at the Bernabéu (the last victory against the eternal rival until Simeone He succeeded in 2013) and fired 1999 beating Oviedo in Calderón (5-0). But that same day, dozens of civil guards broke into the stadium. The judge Manuel García Castellón evicted the directive chaired by Jesús Gil and appointed A. Luis Manuel Rubí as judicial administrator.
There the descent began to set, with the intervened club and the most pending players of his salary and his future than to play football. SLo later Gil managed to return control of the club (A controller remained) but years later the prosecutor Castresana He gave his version of the matter in a documentary about which he was a mattress president and mayor of Marbella.
“That the team was wrong made the judicial administration for the magistrate unsustainable. The media pressure was tremendous and left with the aim that the judge lifted it. It was agreed Luis Romasanta) Little intervened. The Gil and Cerezo family regained control of the club and did what they thought of them, “ said.
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And he added: “It was a tragedy because it was a disaster, it is undeniable. It was not an accidental disaster. They told the employees not to collaborate with the judicial administrator, they told the players who did not play and the club went to the Second Division. “
Then it was suggested that Jesús Gil had a succulent insurance in case of descent and the missing Radomir Anticwhich took the team in the middle of the course and with which the decrease was consumed, made these statements (which were later eliminated) in an extensive interview with JotDown: “The time came what I wanted was to help, but they came a very truculent stories. I will never forget that we had a meeting at the Palace with Gil saying that we had the best coach, but we could do nothing but descend. And so it was. Hasselbaff fails two penalties … I don't want to talk because it's very hard. ” “There is a lot because the journalist questioned. “More than much”, Radomir responded, to which he was insisted: “But 'to the point that HasselBaff failed penalty, as he just revealed.” “There was everything, everything. Because it was one of the ways to defend himself on Thursdays,” said the Serbian in those statements that we insist, then they were withdrawn.
