It’s now the 24th year and it’s impossible to get rid of the pain when you look back at December 8, 1998. In addition to Aitor Zabaleta, football and the soul of Real’s followers received a fatal blow that day outside the Calderón. It is still impossible to hold back the anger despite the fact that almost five decades have passed and more considering that that tragic episode, the horrific murder, is not a definitive lesson, it is not a point and a aside, in the view of some. recent violent events. Real fans, its people, have been an example when it comes to preserving memory Aitor, not to extinguish its fire, to keep it as the symbol that it continues to be: of the union of a hobby, the txuri urdin, and of the eternal fight against violence in football. His name was pronounced during these 24 years in Anoeta with and without the courts and even in some nearby stadiums and also assumed by an animation crowd that forever changed the atmosphere in the stadium of San Sebastian and imitated in other latitudes. It’s healthy to keep that spirit, but it’s disheartening to see that, far from being extinct, violent behavior, hatred of fans for reasons more political than sports, is still alive and even a few pretending to be ‘realzales’ has tarnished the name of the club and of Aitor. We are always on the other side. And we will never forget it. Aitor, Aitor, Aitor Zabaleta.
Source: La Verdad
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